Motorola has resurrected the RAZR as a Droid-branded smartphone. That’s right, the razor-thin flip phone that sold more than 130 million units in its four-year run in the mid-2000s is back.

Motorola released the Droid Razr on Friday, 11/11/11, at 11:11 a.m. Amazon offered a Friday-only deal on the new Razr through its AmazonWireless site giving you the Razr for $111.11 with a Verizon contract.

How did buzz on the resurrected RAZR compare to the original? We used Social Radar to analyze conversations online back to 2007 to find out.

Motorola RAZR buzz

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Current RAZR sentiment

Within the last 30 days, conversations around RAZR have been 88% positive. The word ‘Android’ is appearing in 47% of all RAZR conversations and is 92% positive.

Current RAZR content distribution

Within the last 30 days, 40% of RAZR mentions came via Twitter, 48% via blogs, and 8% via forums.

Are you happy to see the RAZR attempting to make a comeback? Will you buy a Droid RAZR?

Google announced today that it would acquire Motorola Mobility, the cellphone business that was split from Motorola, for $12.5 billion. The acquisition, by far Google’s largest ever, turns Google (which makes the Android mobile operating system), into a full-fledged cellphone manufacturer, in direct competition with Apple

With the acquisition, Google gains a portfolio of 17,000 patents and another 7,000 patents pending globally. The word “patent” was mentioned 24 times on Google’s conference call this morning to discuss the deal. Google CEO Larry Page and other executives talked about how Motorola Mobility’s portfolio of patents will help protect google and its Android phone software from “anti-competitive threats” from Microsoft, Apple and other companies.

We used Social Radar to analyze conversations online.

Google and Motorola buzz

Nearly 79% of conversations around Google and Motorola today have been positive.

Where does this acquisition leave other Android phone makers?

Apple made its second-generation iPad official on Wednesday. iPad 2 features a 1GHz dual-core A5 chip, cameras on both front and rear, a new cover, is 33% thinner than the original iPad. The new device will be available in both black in white on March 11.

We used Social Radar to run analysis around Apple and iPad 2 conversations.

iPad 2 sentiment

Conversations around iPad 2 over the last two days have been 90% positive.

iPad 2 conversation topic cloud

All major topics of conversation around iPad 2 have been positive (green) over the last two days.

iPad 2 vs. Xoom chatter

iPad 2 was mentioned in nearly 0.5% of ALL conversations online yesterday. iPad 2 is currently generating significantly more chatter than competitor Motorola Xoom tablet.

Most discussed features within iPad 2 conversations

We analyzed features mentioned within conversations around iPad 2 over the last two days. The chart displays a percentage each feature was mentioned within iPad 2 posts.

HP officially unveiled its next generation of webOS devices today, including the new TouchPad tablet, Palm Pre 3 and HP Veer.

Palm chatter

Buzz around Palm has already doubled so far today following the announcements.

HP TouchPad chatter

The TouchPad is HP’s big move into the white-hot tablet space. Check out the Engadget review comparing HP’s TouchPad to the iPad and Motorola Xoom. Chatter around TouchPad spiked above Xoom today, but is still well below iPad buzz.

HP Chatter

Conversations around HP are currently 86% positive.

HP Conversation Topic Cloud

The TouchPad is being mentioned in 24% of HP conversations today.

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 kicked off in Las Vegas this week with several companies making major announcements along the themes of mobility, 3D and 4G with new TVs, cameras, phones and games. But the biggest buzz of the conference so far has been generated around tablets.

The iPad’s success in 2010 validated the market, opening the door for countless other companies to attempt to make a splash and try to become true competitors to Apple’s popular device.

We used Social Radar to run analysis on topics of conversation around CES this week. The word ‘tablet’ has appeared in 25% of CES posts, and 91% of the discussion around tablets has been positive.

CES Conversation Topic Cloud

Several companies made tablet announcements this week:

• Motorola debuted an Android Honeycomb tablet, the Xoom, a 1080p device running Android 3.0, a version of the OS built specifically for the tablet form factor. Android 3.0 is the first version of Android to have a full tablet interface variation different from the phones.
• Research in Motion (R.I.M.) will be offering a tablet called the BlackBerry PlayBook designed to completely integrate and synchronize with BlackBerry devices.
• Microsoft announced Windows-7 powered tablets. Several different versions offer unique features, including touchscreens, slide-out keyboards, dual-screen machines, stylus-friendly tablets and more.
• Samsung announced a new Sliding PC 7 which bridges the gap between netbook and tablet. The device is a 0.78 inch thick touchscreen tablet that transforms into a netbook when you reveal its slide-out keyboard hidden underneath. In addition, Samsung also added an LTE modem and upgraded camera to its Galaxy Tab.
• Pandigital announced 7- and 9-inch tablets running Android 2.1.
• Microvision announced a prototype Android ‘mini tablet’ with built-in projector.
• OpenPeak debuts OpenTablet 10 with a transflective display, front-facing 720p cam, an HDMI out for 1080p video, a digital MEMS microphone, and optional 3G connectivity in addition to the standard WiFi.
• ASUS announced a new tablet lineup – three Android-based Eee Pads and one Windows-based Eee Slate, each with its own “twist” (the Slider, Transformer, MeMO and Slate EP121).
• Acer announced the Acer Iconia Tab A500, a 10-inch Tegra 2 tablet with Verizon LTE.
• T-Mobile announced a G-Slate tablet, the company’s first 4G tablet and running Android 3.0.
• Toshiba announced an Android-powered tablet with it’s 10.1-inch widescreen display, built-in SD card reader as well as a mini USB connection and full-size HDMI and full-size USB ports.
• Dell announced the Streak 7, deemed a ‘Generation Y tablet’ based on price. The device runs Android 2.2 with a 7″ multi-touch display.

Within all CES tablet-related conversations, Android Honeycomb appeared in 14% of posts while iPad appeared in 21% of posts.

CES Tablet-Related Conversation Topic Cloud

We ran further analysis on each of the tablets announced at CES 2011.

Mentions Within CES-Related Content/Articles

The Motorola Xoom is generating the most tablet buzz so far this week, followed by BlackBerry Playbook, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Toshiba Tablet, and ASUS Eee Pad.

We conducted topic analysis on each of the top five tablets generating the most buzz.

CES Tablet Conversation Topic Distribution

How does the tablet conversation compare when you group them by Android, Apple, Windows 7, and Linux/other?

CES Tablet Conversation By Group

CES Top Sources

Which are the key sources talking about CES 2011? Engadget is the top source, currently making more than 32 CES-related and generating more than 1100 links in per day.

We will continue to monitor CES buzz this week and tablet buzz throughout 2011. Which tablets do you think are best positioned to rival the iPad?

The Social Radar Top 50 measures the brands with the most active Web presence based on overall online conversation volume. To create the Top 50 list, we used Social Radar to analyze millions of blog posts, news feeds, forums, social networks and Twitter posts to aggregate a list of the words and brands mentioned most frequently on the Web during all of 2008 and 2009. The list measures the number of unique individuals or sources that posted content about each brand during 2009 rather than the overall number of mentions, which would be more heavily influenced by big fans who post frequently about a specific brand.

This year has certainly been interesting. Several new brands made their way to the mainstream making our 2009 Top 50 list, such as Kindle, Amazon’s hit e-book reader, and Android, Google’s mobile OS that is spreading onto smartphones like wildfire. Interestingly, Samsung and Nokia took a big hit this year, as sexier smartphones such as iPhones and Android-powered devices from HTC and Motorola gain more attention.

The list certainly shows that 2009 was the year of Social Media. Twitter moved ahead of Google to take the number 1 spot, while Facebook and MySpace made significant leaps over big brands as well. Most video game related brands were down this year as well, including Sony, Wii, Xbox, and Nintendo. It also appears TV brands all jumped this year including Disney, MTV, Fox, BBC, CNN, ESPN, and ABC.

Download the PDF:

Rank	Chg	Brand
1	(+2)	Twitter
2	(-1)	Google
3	(+6)	Facebook
4		iPhone
5	(+2)	YouTube
6	(-4)	Obama
7	(-2)	Mac
8	(-2)	Apple
9	(+3)	iPod
10	(-2)	Microsoft
11		Windows
12	(+5)	MySpace
13	(-3)	Yahoo
14	(+5)	Amazon
15	(+7)	Fox
16	(+10)	Disney
17	(+17)	BlackBerry
18	(-4)	Firefox
19	(+4)	BBC
20	(-2)	Wii
21	(-6)	Sony
22	(-1)	XBox
23	(+2)	Playstation
24	(-8)	Linux
25	(+7)	CNN
26	(+13)	MTV
27	(+8)	AT&T
28	(-15)	eBay
29	(+12)	Starbucks
30		NFL
31		Android
32	(-12)	Nokia
33	(-9)	Ford
34	(+2)	ABC
35		Skype
36	(-8)	Dell
37	(+8)	UPS
38	(-7)	Wikipedia
39	(+1)	NBA
40	(+4)	LG
41		ESPN
42		Oprah
43	(-16)	Samsung
44		NASA
45	(-12)	Nintendo
46	(-17)	Canon
47	(-4)	Nike
48		Gap
49		Kindle
50	(-13)	Intel

View the full list below, or download the PDF. For additional information about how you can analyze chatter sentiment to gauge positivity/negativity, view key words mentioned about your brand and identify key influencers, visit www.infegy.com/socialradar.

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Questions or comments? Twitter me @adamcoomes.

There’s the iPhone…and then there’s everything else. iPhone generates more than twice as much chatter as the next highest competitor, dwarfing BlackBerry, Palm and Nokia. Interestingly, Nokia sells hundreds of different phone models; Samsung sells TVs, desktop monitors, etc. — doesn’t matter, iPhone still dominates web chatter.