The Droid Razr MAXX HD was launched on October 18 on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE system in the United States, and returns many popular features from its previous siblings. The Motorola Droid Razr 4G was the skinniest handset ever built when it launched, the Droid Razr MAXX delivers the maximum battery performance of any 4G smartphone, and the Droid Razr HD offered the largest screen Motorola has made for a smartphone to date. Take all of those desirable features, along with the overall durability Droid Razr handsets are known for, and you have the Motorola Droid Razr MAXX HD.
The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD is on sale at the reduced introductory now starting at 199.99.
The same Gorilla Glass scratch protection is back on the display, the familiar Kevlar back plate has returned as well as aircraft grade aluminum framing, and the handset is protected with splash-proof nanocoating just as previous Razr models have been. But the Droid Razr MAXX HD also adds government grade encryption for your e-mail and contacts, a remote wipe security features that allows you to erase personal and sensitive financial information should your phone be lost or stolen, and a protective pin lock. Offered in black or white, the handset is wafer thin at 0.37 inches (9.3 mm).
The large 4.70 inch display is the same size as the Droid Razr HD, and delivers the same high-end 312 pixels per inch pixel density and 720 x 1,280 overall pixel resolution as well. That Super AMOLED screen uses more than 16 million colors to render visuals, and video out is offered by both DLNA and microHDMI technology. An astounding 21.0 hours of talk time or 13.0 hours of video playback are offered from a single charge on the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx HD 4G, and that 3,300 mA battery also delivers an alternate 10.0 hours of streaming video or 27.0 hours of streaming music over Verizon’s LTE network.
The rear facing 8.0 megapixel camcorder records video in 1,080P HD resolution, and the front facing chat cam provides video call support. In the hardware package on board the handset, a dual core 1.5 GHz Krait central processor is at the core of a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 chip suite, with an Adreno 225 GPU handling all graphics processing. 1.0 GB of LP DDR2 RAM system memory is built-in, as well as 32 GB of data storage, with the microSD slot on board providing data expansion for cards up to 32 GB in size. The popular Picasa application has been pre-installed, and the handset comes with a built-in music player and YouTube video player.
