When Motorola Mobility announced its 2013 release of the Droid Ultra, Droid Mini and Droid MAXX handsets, they pointed out that the phones all delivered impressive hardware and software, with each handset focusing on its own area of excellence. The Droid MAXX delivers far and away the best battery performance of any smartphone, the Droid Mini is compact, slim and light, while the runway model stature of the Motorola Droid Ultra 4G running on Verizon focuses on offering the slimmest possible design.
The ultra-skinny Motorola Droid Ultra does not offer its svelte and slim form factor at the sacrifice of other features however. Many skinny phones are only able to offer a thin profile because they lack decent batteries. That is not the case with the Motorola Droid Ultra, which enters the 2014 New Year with a bargain bin price tag of around $19 on contract at the Amazon Wireless store online. The 2,130 mA battery on board the handset benefits from power saving light and proximity sensors, as well as a juice-sipping processor package, to deliver a generous 28.0 hours of talk time after a full charge.
That offering is more than twice the industry average, and combines with 2.0 GB of RAM memory, a large 5.0 inch True HD display, a main camera with a 10.0 megapixel sensor and Clear Pixel technology as well as the Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System to make for a powerful and versatile smartphone. Physically, the Droid Ultra is shaped a lot like the original Droid Razr 4G, another skinny phone, with slightly tapered corners and a form factor which becomes thinner towards the bottom of the handset. With straight edges and short, steep curves, the phone is designed to feel natural and perfectly ergonomic when resting in your hand.
The X8 computing system includes a dual core CPU clocked at 1.7 GHz, a versatile quad core graphics processor, a natural language core and a separate contextual computing core. Sharing processing duties makes for faster overall user experience, and two of the features the Motorola Droid Ultra delivers have been popular with industry analysts and customers alike. Touchless Control allows you to wake your phone with voice commands, and your Motorola Droid Ultra can even understand your particular voice in a crowded and noisy environment.
The Active Display feature conserves battery power using a unique notification system, and alerts you to notifications and other important information without asking you to click through multiple screens and menus. Incredibly skinny at just 0.28 inches (7.18 mm) in thickness, the Droid Ultra is also lightweight for a 5-incher at 4.83 ounces (137 g). The handset offers 16 GB of built-in data storage, 1,080P HD resolution video recording, and functionality as a mobile hotspot for multiple wireless devices.
