Motorola Droid Turbo (@Maxx)

Smartphones just gets better and better. Almost every month you would hear one that is said to be the new champion of the market, one that would revolutionize your world, one that would make you wonder how you ever lived your pitiful life without it. So here's another one.

 

Launched by the company that has recently been bought by Lenovo, the Moto Droid Turbo (international version is named Moto Maxx) impresses in almost all categories.

So let’s start with the usual aspect, the feature that you are going to look at most of the time (literally), the display! The Moto Droid is equipped with a 5.2-inch Quad HD display (2560 x 1440) powering a high ppi of 565 (iPhone 6: 326, iPhone 6 Plus: 401). It seems that 2K display is starting to be the standards in new flagship smartphones, a boy do you really see the difference.

What is the use of a powerful power hungry display if you had to recharge it every few hours? Well here, my friends, is another surprise. The device comes with a GIGANTIC 3,900 mAh battery that Motorola touted to last 48 hours. To put this in comparison to the iPhone 6 Plus and Note 4 that has battery capacities of 2915 mAh and 3220 mAh respectively. All of this thus makes the ‘droid’ a bit on thick side but hey, I’m willing to have a thicker smartphone than a thin one that forces me to constantly find a power socket. Well for the ‘droid’ you don’t even need to plug it in, just place in on its charging pad and watch it refuels itself (Wireless charging capabilities). A common feature in big smartphones nowadays is the Turbo Charging, Motorola’s own version of fast charging. It is said to be able to charge the smartphone from 0 to 60 % in just 30 minutes.

 

Onto the camera, surprise surprise! It has a 21 megapixels shooter that can take 4K videos! Need I elaborate more? J It also comes with the usual dual- LED flash and auto focus. So far no complains can be found about it. To the front, it has a 2MP camera.

The ‘Droid’ is powered by the latest processor by Qualcomm, a 2.7 Ghz Quad core Snapdragon 805. On par with the Note 4. This is coupled with a 3 GB RAM. For storage capacity of it has an internal storage of 64GB.

Other notable features are the Motorola gestures that allows you to command/use the phone with the need of touching it, it’s water resistant coated so you don’t have to worry about accidentally spilling water on it (or rain), and  it does have LTE (though not sure if the band is usable in Malaysia).

Finally the phone does seem to be every tech enthusiast’s wildest dream and can seem to be surreal but I assure you the phone really exists. Fingers crossed that it won’t take long to reach Malaysia. As Motorola was previously under google, they have been manufacturing smartphones that delivers one of the cleanest and pure versions of android and the promise continues with the Moto ‘Droid’ Maxx. This would also ensure that software updates to the phone won’t take too long (as of the time of writing, it comes out of the box with Android KitKat 4.4). An extra reason to own this beast. ^_^  

Maybe this could be the smartphone that going to push me towards Android.

*So far no news on when this would come to Malaysia. In the USA, it's sold exclusively through the Verizon carrier.

Sources: Motorola.com, soyacincau.com