If you happen to have Verizon for your wireless provider and rock the carrier’s Motorola Droid Razr Maxx for your mobile weapon of choice, you know that you have a very capable device in your hands. Not only that, with the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, you don’t have problems of the handset suddenly dying out on you with an empty battery because the handset packs a massive 3300 mAh power pack in its chassis that gives it an incredible battery life unlike what we’ve seen in the past.
However, that is not the only good thing going on for the original Motorola Droid Razr Maxx at the moment. As it stands, it looks like the handset is about to finally get a taste of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update soon because Motorola is already underway with the Jelly Bean soak test for the handset. The company is said to be in the process of testing the Android 4.1 refresh for the handset and if things go well, we can expect the update to get rolled out in the coming days.
For the uninitiated, a soak test is a process where Motorola rolls out an update to a select number of people for testing purposes and these people are expected to go back to Motorola with feedback regarding the feasibility of the update. With this in play, the manufacturer has a sort of an eagle eye view on things and could easily pull the plug on the update if it causes more harm than good. Because the number of people testing the update is limited and very controlled, only minimal devices will have problems if in case the update is not up to par yet.
As for the Jelly Bean update for the handset, it is expected to crank up the Android version of the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and bump its software version to version 98.72.XT912. The update is expected to bring the usual Jelly Bean-associated treats such as Project Butter and Google Now to the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx but with this update, Motorola also eschewed their My Music and My Gallery apps in favor of the stock Google offerings. The update will also bring improved connectivity, faster Outlook syncing and a smattering of tweaks and fixes to the handset.
As for the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, the handset has its circuitry built around its Texas Instruments OMAP4430 chipset which comes with a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor and full gigabyte of RAM. The two work together in delivering the computing power needed by the handset for its flawless performance. The storage space on board the handset comes up to 16GB but a microSD card slot in its chassis plus the pre-installed 16GB microSD card allows for memory expansion on the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. Display-wise, the handset comes with a 4.3-inch SuperAMOLED Advanced panel with a qHD resolution of 540 x 960 pixels while its camera department includes a rear 8MP shooter and a front 1.3MP snapper.
