There’s a whole new Motorola RAZR in town, and those of you that’ve already picked up the old one should know this: the release date has been tipped to us for the RAZR MAXX to be the 26th of January, 2012. This sits well with the perhaps accidentally dropped date (also the 26th shown on the Motorola site earlier this week (and subsequently taken down), this leading us to believe that, barring any newly discovered mishaps before then, we can expect a bigger and bolder RAZR in our very near future.

This device is a dual-core “RAZR thin” 4G LTE Android device being carried by Verizon and its release has come so close to the release of the original DROID RAZR that it’s almost as if they realized that the battery was too small and didn’t have time to change it in the first place. That or it just made more sense to release one of the world’s thinnest smartphones in its original ultra-thin form factor first to gain some press attention that it otherwise may note have gotten, then essentially silently release the MAXX which is the same, but a bit thicker because of its bigger battery.

Either way, it’s happening, and we’ve got a hands-on look with the device so that you can tell how nice it looks whilst held in a hand. This device was released alongside the DROID 4 as well, if you did not know, and we’ve got a hands-on experience of that for you now as well. These devices were released at CES 2012, and we got a chance to look at them inside Pepcom.

Motorola makes some great hardware and we all know that. Sadly almost all of them with the DROID RAZRincluded are extremely locked down and don’t give the end user many options for modding or running custom ROM’s. This is nothing new from Motorola and I won’t even get into the fact that they claimed to be changing this policy. Either way we now have another victory and ClockworkMod recovery is now available on the RAZR.

here seems to be a bit of confusion here as we’ve heard reports that this has been around for a while but simply wasn’t widely known — that is possibly because everyone was so focused on the Galaxy Nexus. None of that really matters though because we now have a fully working bootstrap method to get clockworkmod recovery on the DROID RAZR. With backups and restores seemingly working great the next step is ROM’s, tweaks, and more.

Either way we’d like to thank nitroglycerine33 and J.Y.Daddy from XDA for making this available. Obviously Motorola hardware and bootloaders are a iffy subject — and dangerous dark waters so be sure and use some caution if this concerns you and you decide to flash the recovery. All the details and download files are available at the via below. Proceed with caution fellow RAZR owners.