By Chris Chang, posted Nov 2, 2011 at 7:45 PM, 930 views,

Why the Hell is Motorola RAZR Being Redesigned to Land in China?

You’re looking at two different designs of Motorola Droid RAZR — one is for International and the other one is exclusively for China. Lots of Droid fans are complaining about the China version — it looks like a cheapo Chinese copy of RAZR.

The Motorola RAZR, also known as the Droid RAZR for Verizon Wireless in the U.S. market, was officially announced last month and the company unveiled two versions of its RAZR smartphone (a CDMA one for Verizon, and a GSM one – simply called RAZR – for non U.S. markets), they both look the same. However, there’s a third version of the handset, which is slightly different design-wise, and has been approved by China’s equivalent of the FCC recently. See photos below.

Obviously the China version of RAZR shares a very similar design with the Kevlar fiber on the back and extremely thin 7.1mm body, but clearly things are a bit different here, see the comparison pic below.

It’s kinda weird to see the RAZR getting a slight re-design and a different model when the handset lands in China. The handset has received its Chinese network access license on Oct 25th and is called the MT917. Like the Droid RAZR, the MT917 will feature a 4.3-inch AMOLED qHD display, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, 8-megapixel rear camera, and ultra-slim body. Perhaps the difference we’re looking at here is the phone has more rounded edges and the backside shows more tapering around the edges. What’s more, the phone also will come with a TD-SCDMA radio making it destined for China Mobile, the country’s largest wireless operator. Anyway, we think the redesign makes the RAZR looks like a cheapo Chinese copy.

Source: TENAA.com via ePrice.cn