On the left side the Razzel has pretty much all of the buttons you’d expect, a microUSB charging port, volume rocker, and a microSD card slot and on the right it has a hole for a lanyard, camera button, and a mobile web/screen lock key. On the front of the device you’ll see all of the favorites this style of messaging phone typically has, two shortcut buttons, a speakerphone button, clear key, directional pad with ok button, send/call key, and an end key. The modest 1 megapixel camera is located on the back and the 2.5mm headphone jack is found on the top. The unique feature of the Razzel is the rotating bottom that can either be a full QWERTY keyboard or a speaker for when listening to music with an angled lip similar to many homephones. In terms of size and weight it’s rather unremarkable, coming in at 3.8 ounces and is 2.4-inches wide by 4.5-inches and 0.5-inches in depth. It certainly isn’t bulky but it isn’t miniature either. It has a 2.2-inch LCD display that has a 220 x 176 pixel resolution that utilizes 262,000 colors, none of which are impressive, but hey what do you expect from this tier of mobile device. The packaging is definitely minimalist and contains the device, battery, wall charger, USB cable, 1Gb microSD card (pre-installed in the phone), and instruction manuals.

The Razzle is by no means a power-house full of functionality, but one of the great features is does have is the unique rotating speaker that makes it quite the music player. On the speaker are 4 buttons that control the music features, those keys being a shortcut key to your music, back/rewind, play/pause, and forward/fast-forward. It offers the standard sorting for music and can be filtered by artists, genres, and albums and can create custom play-lists. It can literally turn itself into an MP3 player only when in “music-only mode” which is essentially airplane mode so that you can use it while on the plane. The camera’s performance was pretty poor, which is to be expected considering it’s a mere 1 megapixel and without proper lighting good luck taking worthwhile photos and doesn’t offer a video recorder. The Razzle comes with Verizons basic UI and is simplistic and to the point reminiscent of phones you would have seen 10 years ago. There are very few themes and wallpapers to customize your device, but it does offer various font sizes and the ability to view icons in either tab, list, or grid layout similar to how you view files in a folder on a Windows based OS. The keyboard on the Razzle is probably it’s final strong-suit, as it possesses a fairly solid tactile response and is easy and comfortable to use with everything you would and should expect from a QWERTY keyboard, but it’s a shame that since it lacks 3G mobile e-mail is not a standard feature and is $5 extra monthly. If you are unsatisfied with the pre-installed customization features you can purchase additional content through Verizon.

While i’m not sure any of the following are highlights, but more like it’s few features that are actually on par perhaps we can look past some of it’s flaws as they were obviously left out to make it a more affordable entry-level phone not exactly targeting the smart-phone crowd or corporate suit. The rotating QWERTY keyboard/speaker bottom is definitely a unique attribute that has a certain charm about it, though i’m not sure the design is optimal, both the keyboard and speaker work relatively well and have pretty standard performance. The phone itself isn’t very sluggish and is relatively quick in terms of response, but considering how basic the UI is i’d certainly expect those to be true. The blue-tooth feature is fairly simple to use and performs rather well, and the phone itself has pretty solid clarity on both ends of a call, but the speaker phone has had several bad reports on the other end often being described as muffled. Overall you can’t really complain about some of it’s less than remarkable features such as the 1 megapixel camera or 2.2-inch display as the Razzle has set out with a specific target and has provided the features that market needs and wants at an affordable price.