Motorola has updated its Ice Cream Sandwich status page to show that the Droid Razr MAXX 4G Android smartphone will definitely receive an upgrade to the Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) 4.0 Android operating system “by the end of Q2 2012.” This is a welcome piece of news for Motorola Droid Razr MAXX owners, and its official presence on Motorola’s website rather than as a “leaked screenshot” from Best Buy lends the announcement official credence. You may recall recall, some weeks ago Best Buy showed inter-company screenshots that incorrectly reported the arrival of ICS for the Droid Razr MAXX some time ago.
Buy the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx starting at $169.
The Motorola ICS update list is in logical order, and the Motorola Droid Razr and Motorola Droid Razr MAXX are the next two devices that company says will receive the over the air ICS OS update. The Motorola Droid Razr MAXX only came into existence because its predecessor, the Motorola Droid Razr, was too good at its number one purpose. Designed as the skinniest handset ever to hit the 4G smartphone marketplace, the Motorola Droid Razr was simply to thin to allow for much of a battery.
So Motorola engineers went back to the drawing board, kept the high-flying and high-performing features and specs in the Motorola Droid Razr, added an 85% larger battery, and the Motorola Droid Razr MAXX was born. Easily leading the field in battery life, the handset’s 3,300 mAh battery delivers 21.5 hours of talk time and 15 hours of video playback from single charge. That handset is exclusive to the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network, and recently received a retail price drop to $169 with a standard two-year activation and data plan.
The handset arrives in typical candy bar form factor, and is still incredibly thin at 0.35 inches (8.99 mm). The Kevlar and aluminum body is splash-proof, and the 4.30 and Super AMOLED display is protected by a layer of scratch resistant Gorilla Glass. Resolution runs 256 pixels per inch, for an overall display resolution followed 540 x 960 pixels. The handset also delivers the most user accessible, out-of-the-box data storage with 16 GB of storage built in, and a 16 GB movable microSD card that ships with the handset.
A dual core 1.2 GHz Cortex A9 central processor joins a PowerVR SGX540 graphics chip in the Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 microchip package used to power the device, and 1.0 GB of RAM system memory is on board. The 8.0 megapixel camcorder on the back of the handset provides video capture at 1,080P HD resolution, and there is a 1.3 megapixel chat cam up front which also offers video call support. Buy the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx starting at $169.
May 21, 2012 at 12:16 am
Ha! They didn’t go “back to the drawing board”, they had the MAXX planned all along. The original razr was a marketing move… Still, it’s a nice phone.
May 21, 2012 at 12:52 am
“too” thin. go back to school, kid.