The Motorola Droid Ultra 4G Android smartphone is exceptionally slim in stature. It is not, however, slim on performance or handy features. Supporting Google Now virtual personal assistance and several other vocal commands, the phone’s hardware package contains a unique natural language processor which gives the handset what Motorola is calling an “always on” feature. This means that even when your handset is in hibernation mode, the Motorola Droid Ultra 4G understands and responds to your verbal commands and requests.
The Motorola Droid Ultra can be purchased at select online retailers starting at $99.99, which is a savings of up to $100 over carrier prices.
Google purchased Motorola Mobility back in 2011, so it is not strange to see this Google Now “Siri-like” performance coupled with Motorola’s new custom X8 Mobile Computing System and “touchless control” operation. The X8 system of chips includes eight different processing cores, all arranged in a nontraditional manner. Rather than deliver a quad core central processor, the handset is powered by a 1.7 GHz dual core CPU. However, the language processor mentioned above joins a contextual computing processor to handle some everyday, low-power requests that are usually the job of a handset’s central processor.
There is also a quad core graphics processor which joins in to reduce the CPU’s workload, and by spreading out tasks across all of these different processors, the central processor is able to focus on your most important requests and operations. This also helps dramatically improve battery performance, which is usually a problem with super skinny smartphones. Manufacturers make them so slim to be attractive to mobile handset shoppers, that this usually means a very small battery. That leads to poor battery performance, a downgrade that most aficionados of wafer-thin smartphones simply accept.
That is not the case with the Motorola Droid Ultra, a phone which measures a scant 0.28 inches (7.18 mm) in thickness, but still delivers a more than generous 28.0 hours of run time after a full battery charge. The handset also weighs less than 5 ounces, a worthwhile achievement for a smartphone with a display that is 5.0 inches. That True HD screen offers 720 x 1,280 pixel resolution which is protected by a scratch resistant layer of Gorilla Glass, and the durable Kevlar fiber unibody from previous Motorola Droid creations has also returned to protect against everyday abuse.
Referencing the above-mentioned ability to wake up your powerful Droid Ultra with the mere sound of your voice, the Google Now feature teams up with the language processor to wake up and bring the phone online when you say, “Okay Google.” You then simply speak your next voice command and you are in business. Obviously, this does not apply if you have powered down your handset entirely, and only when it your phone is in standby mode. A rear facing 10.0 megapixel camera delivers a quick capture feature, 16 GB of data storage is on board, as is 2.0 GB of RAM system memory.
You can purchase the Motorola Droid Ultra 4G for a discounted price tag starting at $99.99.
Or you can purchase directly from Verizon Wireless starting at $199.99.
