In today’s smartphone world, most handsets suffer from a shortened battery life that users typically find themselves running to a wall outlet at the end of the day, every single day, to have their smartphones charged for use on the morrow. Motorola however was intent on changing and was able to do so when it released the original Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. The handset came with a massive 3300 mAh power pack in its chassis that enabled its users to use and abuse the handset without having to worry about its juice getting squeezed out at the end of the day and still has a lot left for use the next day.
The newer Droid Razr Maxx HD is available for a discounted price tag now starting at $199.99.
However, that is not the only good thing about the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. The handset finally got a taste of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich approximately six months ago and a lot of us thought that ICS is the final stop in the handset’s upgrade journey. Motorola however came out with a revised Jelly Bean update schedule which said otherwise to the delight and joy of Motorola Droid Razr Maxx users everywhere.
With that in mind, it was reported a couple of days back that Verizon has already started the rollout of the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean refresh to the original Motorola Droid Razr Maxx. It was however noted at the time of the alleged rollout that the changelog and official support documents of the update were never put up in the official support site of Big Red. After all, whenever Verizon is about to rollout a software update to any of the handsets in its lineup, the carrier can be expected to make the changelog of the said update in its support site as a precursor to the rollout – which did not happen in this case.
And now comes the kicker.
Apparently, Big Red has already pulled the update and there has been no confirmation as of yet if Motorola Droid Razr Maxx 4G users will still get the Android 4.1 refresh before the year ends. Reports however indicate that some users were able to download and install the 331.7MB update while others were not so lucky and got an update failure instead. Those who have the guts on the other hand still has the option of downloading the software update manually and flashing it onto their respective devices.
As for the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, the handset was announced back in January and it became available off the shelves in the same month. Under the hood, its circuitry revolves around a Texas Instruments OMAP4430 chipset with a dual-core 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor and a full gigabyte of RAM. Its storage space is pegged at 32GB and the handset also comes with a microSD card slot in its chassis for memory expansion purposes. Display-wise, the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx comes with a 4.3-inch SuperAMOLED Advanced panel with a qHD resolution of 540 x 960 pixels while its dual-shooter configuration includes a rear 8MP shooter and a front 1.3MP snapper.
December 28, 2012 at 9:09 am
Why pull it? I side loaded it, and it works great.