On the last day in October, Google announced they would be releasing the Android 4.4 KitKat version of its operating system. Motorola Mobility, now wholly owned by Google, immediately followed that announcement of with one of its own. The company stated that the Motorola Droid Mini would be receiving the boost up to Android 4.4, however they did not supply a time frame. This means that, as it appears now, the Motorola Droid Mini 4G would skip Android 4.3 and go straight to KitKat 4.4.
The Motorola Droid Mini can be purchased at a reduced price starting at one penny, saving you up to $49.98 over carrier prices.
The phone also recently was reduced to one penny on contract, available at select online retail outlets at that price. The Motorola Droid Mini was designed to be compact, slim and light, as opposed to many of the current smartphones which are huge, heavy and bulky. However, the “mini” in the device’s name does not refer to the display. The designers at Motorola Mobility released the Droid Mini 4G alongside the Droid Ultra and Droid MAXX, each phone representing a different characteristic.
The Ultra is ultra-slim, and the MAXX leads the mobile marketplace in battery life. The Motorola Droid Mini focuses on being the smallest possible handset while still delivering a large high-resolution display, slim profile and excellent battery life. The Droid Mini runs on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network in the United States, a system that, with over 440 markets covered, is the largest such network in North America. Powering the slim and compact phone is what Motorola is calling the X8 Mobile Computing System.
This is a uniquely arranged set of processing cores found on the Droid Mini which revolves around a dual core Snapdragon S4 Pro which has been clocked at 1.7 GHz. But that CPU uniquely focuses on your more important and intensive requests and processes, allowing six other processing cores to help handle low draw, everyday tasks. That means that the versatile quad core graphics processor, standalone language processing core and separate contextual computing cores all help free up the CPU from running mundane and simple smartphone tasks.
Iqbal Arshad is Motorola’s senior vice president of engineering, and he stated that this unique chip setup helps speed up the central processor, but also aids in extending battery life. This allows the Motorola Droid Mini to deliver a generous 28.0 hours of talk time from a single battery charge. The phone measures just 0.35 inches (8.9 mm) in thickness, and weighs only 4.59 ounces (130 g), while still delivering a large 4.30 inch True HD display. 16 GB of data storage is pre-installed, as is 2.0 GB of RAM system memory. The Droid Mini can be purchased at a discounted price tag now starting at just one penny.
