The bend is very subtle so it would be hard to photograph properly without a macro lens haha. You can only feel it when you lay it flat and gently rock it. It rocks about a mm or so. I took my otter box off and looked at the seems and pushed around it, but no give or snaps telling me that it seated into place.
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Well, I might want you to compare how it sounds versus another Droid RAZR. I am wondering if it simply sounds "tinny" to you simply because you are used to the sound from older style phones with speakerphone capability. In other words, I am wondering if there really isn't anything wrong with the phone at all, other than that it is a tiny speaker that is used to produce the sound.
Earlier phones had more room to have larger transducers which move more air, so they sound better at farther distances from the phone. As these phones get thinner and thinner, the transducer (speaker) inside gets smaller and smaller as well. The area it has to vibrate within (vibration creates the sound) also gets smaller and smaller as well. By utilizing some very high tech waveform manipulation, creating spaces for sound to essentially multiply and amplify, they are able to take a very small transducer with very little vibration and through these techniques generate much louder sound than would be expected, and reproduce much lower frequencies (midrange and bass) than what would be expected as well.
Bose is perhaps the most widely known company who used this technique to turn the sound from a speaker no bigger than your fist into a thumping bass subwoofer and then using that technique shoved it into a table radio. The "Waveguide" uses some very powerful mathmatics and precise measurements of distance, diameter, frequency and pitch to produce the impression that the sound is coming from a large speaker cabinet with a large woofer driver. This technique has been utilized and then dissected and reinvented to obtain similar properties with these micro-transducers in our phones of today.
The problem is that there is a limit to how far those sounds travel once out in open air. For sound to travel, the waves of audio have to be strong enough to continue pushing the air in front of it at the same frequency for great distances and in increasing area. The problem with these microtransducers is that they can produce very well balanced sound but only in a very short proximity to the speaker simply because of their sheer size and the minute amounts of air they actually move. Bass frequencies are unfortunately the hardest to make travel great distances unless large volumes of air are being moved, where in contrast high frequencies can travel very great distances with only a tiny amount of actual air movement (like the tweeters in home speaker systems). So the farther away you get from those tiny transducers in these phones, the more and more "tinny" the sound becomes as the volumes of air movement diminish in the bass frequencies but still continue to travel in the higher "tinny" frequencies.
Put that same speakerphone up to your ear and turn the volume way down, and you'll be impressed at how good it actually sounds. This is how headphones can make such incredible sound and yet just a few feet away someone else can barely hear them. Now they have in-ear headphones that can reproduce sounds with response that rivals high fidelity sound systems for homes or commercial applications costing tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars. It all has to do with distance from the ear drum. The closer it can get, the less movement of the transducer is required, and the smaller the transducer can be.
