On January 26 of this year smartphone manufacturer Motorola made a good thing better with the Droid Razr MAXX 4G. The incredible success of the Motorola Droid Razr 4G focused on its full-featured package in general, and its “slimmest smartphone ever” feature specifically. But with a skinny phone you can not get the maximum battery life of a larger extended battery, and therefore thicker handset. So Motorola designers went back to the drawing board to figure out a way to provide the maximum battery performance any smartphone has ever offered, while still keeping with the desirable and high-end feature package of the Droid Razr 4G.
Motorola was successful, and the Droid Razr MAXX 4G was born. Offering simultaneous voice and data access on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE system in the United States, the handset has an 85% larger battery than its skinny twin. But even with that extended life 3,300 mA battery, the handset is keeping with the ultra-thin Droid Razr motif, at only 0.35 inches (8.99 mm) in thickness. Duplicating the technical specs and features of the Droid Razr, the handset delivers a 4.30 inch Super AMOLED Advanced touchscreen with protective Gorilla Glass coating, and has an overall screen resolution of 540 x 960 pixels.
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That max battery performance is delivered in the form of 21.5 hours of talk time or 15.0 hours of video playback from a single charge. What has flown under the radar regarding the “max” in the Motorola Droid Razr MAXX 4G name is the maximum amount of user accessible data storage offered out-of-the-box by any 4G smartphone. The handset delivers 32 GB of out-of-the-box storage, in the form of a 16 GB removable microSD card that ships with the handset, as well as 16 GB of storage that are built-in.
A Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 microchip package centers around a powerful dual core 1.2 GHz Cortex A9 processor, and a graphics specific PowerVR SGX540 chip is also on board. 1.0 GB of RAM system memory is present, and video out is accessible through both wired microHDMI access and wireless DLNA connectivity.
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The handset contains a rear facing 8.0 megapixel chat cam which offers video capture at 1,080P HD resolution, and delivers an LED flash, image stabilization, touch to focus, Geo tagging, face detection and autofocus features. That camcorder is coupled with a front facing 1.3 megapixel chat cam in the camera combo on board the Droid Razr MAXX, and that front facing snapper can provide video snapshot capabilities as well as video call support. A built-in music player is on board, and a YouTube video player has been pre-installed. The Droid Razr Maxx is currently available starting at $169 at select online retailers.
