Often times smartphone manufacturers have big plans for releasing updates and upgrades to make their devices compatible with the latest, greatest technologies. But we have seen that, in many cases, good intentions are not enough to deliver on those promises. Kudos to Motorola for recently releasing support for Square Register and Jawbone Up, rolling that update out to Verizon’s Motorola Droid Ultra handsets.
The Droid Ultra is uber-skinny, measuring just 0.28 inches (7.18 mm) in thickness. The phone also weighs in at a featherweight 4.83 ounces (137 g), and now will support your favorite tip, ring and sleeve (TRS) plug devices. Square Register is a device which connects to your Motorola Droid Ultra 4G, allowing you to successfully read and process credit cards. Jawbone Up is a virtual fitness assistant you wear as a wristband. It tracks how you sleep, move and eat, and is one of the more popular fitness trackers in the mobile marketplace.
By adding support for TRS devices to the Motorola Droid Ultra 4G, the wafer thin smartphone receives just one more attractive feature heading into the all-important holiday shopping season. The Droid Ultra running on Verizon’s 4G LTE network in the US recently received an early holiday present, in the form of a drastic retail price reduction. The handset can now be purchased for just $19 on contract, at select online retailers like Amazon.
The slim Droid Ultra packs Motorola’s new X8 Mobile Computing System, touchless control, a True HD 720P display, 2.0 GB of RAM memory and a 10 megapixel main camera. The natural language processing core on board means your Droid Ultra understand your voice even when it is in standby mode, and there is a separate contextual computing core on board as well. Those two individual processing cores join a versatile quad core graphics processor in handling many low energy, mundane tasks usually processed by a smartphone’s CPU.
This allows the dual core 1.7 GHz CPU to focus on your more important requests and processes, and the unique processing setup also helps deliver extreme battery life. Although the Motorola Droid Ultra is exceptionally slim, the onboard battery delivers 28.0 hours of talk time after a full battery charge. The display on board is a large 5.0 inches, with a resolution of 720 by 1,280 pixels. The rear facing 10.0 megapixel camera is capable of video capture at 1,080P HD resolution and 60 frames per second, and the Droid Ultra also offers a front facing chat cam with video call support. The Motorola Droid Ultra smartphone can be purchased at a discounted price tag starting at $69.99.
