Yet another smart phone thread... :-) RAZR HD

I cant speak to the RAZR HD, but I can say that Motorola makes great quality phones.  I started with the Moto Droid, and it ran strong for more than two years until I replaced it with a Droid Bionic a year and a half ago.  My Bionic is still going strong and I've had zero issues with it.  I have no need or desire to upgrade it.

Also, I agree with your sentiments on the iPhone.  I took a serious look at the iPhone 5, but realized I'd have to give up a ton of functionality and customization that Android has been doing for years.

I have the iPhone 5 and have tested the Nexus, Nokia Lumia 920, Motorola razr maxx, Samsung Galaxay S3, Samsung Note 2, and a couple others.  Based no your expandable memory comment, My suggestion would be the Samsung Galaxy S3 (S4 should be coming out in the next few months, just FYI). 

I actually like the iOS best of all of them, but the Nexus OS is REALLY REALLY nice and my second favorite but not expandable.  The samsung is great also and expandable.  To be honest the Razr was my least favorite of all of them.  I take that back, the Nokia Lumia 920 with windows mobile 8 was my least favorite.  Razr was 2nd to last.  It was a bit unresponsive when I used it, and I don't know exactly what they did to the Android OS but it's not intuitive AT ALL, IMO.  Nexus uses the same OS and it's so much simpler to operate.  The razr was clogged up with all kinds of apps I had no use for (bloatware as it's called) and it had some redundancy issues frankly.  It crowded up the screen with a bunch of info I didn't need.  It was kind of like they just vomited a bunch apps on the screen and said "here you go, pick what you want".  I suspect some of this can be fixed with extensive customization, and I believe you can set shortcuts which could fix some of the issues I had with it, but I really had a difficult time navigating to where I could do anything on it.  Both the nexus and the Samsung I could find it within seconds.  Additionally I was messing with the Ice Cream Sandwich OS and they may have Jelly Bean out by now.  That could explain some of the difference I see in Razr and samsung or Nexus.

The screen and camera were great on it, but frankly not visibly better than what you would get in the nexus or iPhone.  I did see a difference in the samsung and Razr pictures (but I had them side by side, I don't know that I would tell the difference if they weren't side by side), that could be screen and not camera also.  battery life is HORRID on the iPhone all the others it seemed fine, and the Razr actually had the best of the bunch for me (remember I had the Maxx).

My personal favorites right now are:

1) iPhone 5 (for me for very specific reason)

2) Nexus (the one I'd recommend to almost anyone and best bang for the buck, IMO)

3) Samsung S3

on a side note I am looking forward to getting a hold of the HTC One.  It really looks impressive.

x2. I had upgraded from a Droid to the Razr for the battery life, and it has met all expectations. Plus it has a nice slim profile. 

My experience with Motorola has been terrible as has my wife's before we met. Come to think of it I don't know anyone who has been happy with a Motorola.

Samsung on the other hand is a solid brand, has always worked well for me and others I know. I have 4 family members with Galaxy phones and they are all very happy with them. 

If you don't want another iPhone (my 4 is going great at 2.5 years old) I would go Samsung. In fact I am considering buying a Samsung tablet as the iPad is too expensive for my tastes and doesn't allow storage expansion.

yesyou're right you can expand it this way, but most of the time when I hear people talking about "expandable", they aren't talking about cords.  They usually want a micro sd slot.  But yes it is a viable option.  My recommendation, if I were going to call the Nexus expandable, would be via cloud services.  Corded storage just isn't practical IMO, but to each his own.