The Motorola Droid Razr MAXX 4G Android smartphone arrived in January of this year as a thicker twin to the super thin Motorola Droid Razr 4G handset. That Droid Razr burst onto the mobile marketplace as the thinnest smartphone ever designed, and has been a popular phone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network ever since. The handset really didn’t have any battery life issues, but Motorola copycated all the high flying, high-end technical specs and features from that handset, slapped on an oversized 85% larger battery, and created the Droid Razr MAXX 4G. That handset now offers the most talk time of any 4G smartphone, at 21.5 hours, as well as the most video playback at 15.0 hours.
The Droid Razr MAXX also delivers the max amount of storage space of any 4G smartphone out-of-the-box, at 32 GB. That is comprised of 16 GB of built-in, user accessible storage, and a removable 16 GB microSD card that ships with the Razr MAXX. That massive battery does not create an overly large phone however, as Motorola designed the Droid Razr MAXX with a skinny profile of only 0.35 inches (8.99 mm). The Super AMOLED display runs 4.30 inches, visuals are rendered in more than 16 million different colors, and screen resolution runs 540 x 960 pixels. The capacitive, multitouch screen includes built-in light and proximity sensors, and is protected by an overlay of Corning Gorilla Glass, which provides glare reduction and scratch resistance.
The dual core Cortex A9 central processor on the Razr Maxx has been clocked at 1.2 GHz, and joins a PowerVR SGX540 GPU that handles all graphics processing in the Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 microchip package on board. 1.0 GB of RAM memory is present, and a microSD slot provides microSDHC support as well, and allows for storage expansion. The camcorder located on the back of the handset is an 8.0 megapixel model designed with a dual LED flash, and it offers autofocus, face detection, geo-tagging and image stabilizing features.
A 1.3 megapixel chat cam is on the front of the Droid Razr MAXX, and provides portrait snapshot capability as well as video call support. The built-in music player on the handset sorts by album, artist or play list, and supports all major file formats, and a proprietary YouTube video player is present in the multimedia package as well. The Droid Razr MAXX 4G also functions as an entry-level laptop when used with the optional Lapdock 100 accessory, and as a desktop PC and multimedia center when ported into the optional HD Station made specifically for the handset. You can buy the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx starting at $99.
