Released in January of this year, the Motorola Droid Razr MAXX 4G is a thicker Droid Razr 4G copycat. When tasked with the job of creating the slimmest 4G smartphone ever designed, while still adding respectable software and hardware, Motorola engineers came up with the Motorola Droid Razr 4G. that handset arrived on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network, and immediately became a best seller for that wireless carrier.
Skinny phones usually mean there’s not enough junk in the trunk to deliver high-end battery performance, but Motorola did not want to make a handset without adding all the attractive features possessed by the Droid Razr 4G. So back to the drawing board they went, where they designed an 85% larger battery on virtually the same chassis, and with the same features, as the Droid Razr.
That fatter, high efficiency battery delivers a full 21.5 hours of talk time from a single charge, the max offering found on any 4G handset, thus giving the Motorola Droid Razr MAXX 4G its name. The handset also delivers a 4G-best 32 GB of out-of-the-box, user accessible storage, in the form of 16 GB built into the handset and a removable 16 GB microSD card that ships with the phone. However, in keeping with the thin design of the Droid Razr, Motorola engineers and designers did a great job keeping the Droid Razr MAXX as thin as possible. That handset measures only 0.35 inches (8.99 mm) in thickness, making it one of the slimmest 4G smartphones around.
The unique looking Kevlar and aluminum coated, splash-proof handset is further protected by a layer of scratch resistant Corning Gorilla Glass, and Verizon recently dropped the retail price of the Droid Razr MAXX 4G to $99 on contract at select retailers. The display runs 4.30 inches, and that Super AMOLED screen renders visuals in 16 million unique colors and 256 pixels per inch, for an overall display resolution of 540 x 960 pixels. Standard capacitive, multitouch gestures are used to navigate the device.
That 4G leading 21.5 hours of talk time is joined by 15.8 days of standby, and a Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 microchip package powers the handset. The dual core Cortex A9 central processor has been clocked at 1.2 GHz, and graphics are handled by a PowerVR SGX540 GPU. 1.0 GB of RAM system memory is on board, and the 8.0 megapixel on the back of the handset delivers video capture at a high resolution 1,080P HD. A 1.3 megapixel chat cam is located on the front of the Droid Razr MAXX 4G, and also offers video call support.
