While we’re waiting with bated breath for the Moto X which is set to be unveiled on August 1, Motorola has launched three smartphones in its partnership with Verizon. The smartphones seem to be successor to last year’s smartphones called Razr Maxx, Razr HD and Razr M. They carry Droid branding sans Razr name and hence are dubbed as Droid Maxx, DroidUltra and Droid Mini.
More than the hardware, the devices have tons of innovative software features. Though, one differentiating hardware component in the devices is Motorola’s own 8-core chip called as X8 Mobile Computing System designed with Qualcomm. The cores actually splits the tasks on the smartphone and thus conserves battery life without impacting performance. Motorola claims that this will help in increasing CPU performance by 24% and graphics performance by 100%. The 8 cores are divided as: dual-core for application processing, quad-core for rendering graphics, single-core for contextual computing and single-core for natural language processing. The dual-core processor for processing applications is Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro clocked at 1.7 GHz. For graphic processing, it has Adreno 320 GPU.
Let’s check out the specificationsof these triads-
Droid Maxx
5-inch Super AMOLED display with 720p resolution (1280 x 720 pixels; 294 ppi pixel density) protected by Corning Gorilla Glass
Motorola X8 SoC
2 GB RAM
32 GB Internal memory
10 MP primary camera with LED flash capable of Full HD video recording
2 MP secondarycamera
Non-removable Li-ion battery of 3,500mAh giving it battery life of48 hours
Available in Black
Kevlar Unibody design which also makes the smartphonesplash resistant
Droid Ultra
The smartphone is strikingly similar to Droid Maxx in terms of hardware, but difference comes in battery performance. It’s also thinner and lighter at 7.2 mm and 137 g respectively in comparison to 8.5 mm thickness and 167 g weight of Droid MAXX.
5-inch Super AMOLED display with 720p resolution (1280 x 720 pixels; 294 ppi pixel density) protected by Corning Gorilla Glass
Motorola X8 SoC
2 GB RAM
16 GB Internal memory
10 MP primary camera with LED flash capable of Full HD video recording
2 MP secondarycamera
Non-removable Li-ion battery of 2,130mAh
Available in Black and Red
Kevlar Unibody design which also makes the smartphonesplash resistant
Droid Mini
4.3-inch Super AMOLED display with 720 p resolution(1280 x 720 pixels; 342 ppi pixel density) protected by Corning Gorilla Glass
Motorola X8 SoC
2 GB RAM
16 GB Internal memory
10 MP primary camera with LED flash capable of Full HD video recording
2 MP secondarycamera
Non-removable Li-ion battery of 2100 mAh
Available in Black
Kevlar Unibody design which also makes the smartphonesplash resistant
Software features
All of the smartphones run on latest version of Android 4.2 (JellyBean) but with lots of customizations like-
TOUCHLESS CONTROL
These Droids makes full use of their parent company Google’s technology- Google Now and will always be on listening mode to act upon instructions given to it after one speaks ‘OK, Google’. Users can also make phone calls or search for directions without touching the screen. One can configure the notifications which will be making useof this capability.
ACTIVE DISPLAY
Instead of showing a notification by lighting up whole part of the screen, this technology enables the devices to light up certain parts of the screenfor showing them and thus saving battery life.
QUICK CAPTURE AND DROID ZAP
These features are available in Camera app of the devices. Quick Capture allows users to to launch the camera instantly from standby mode by wobbling it. Droid Zap gives users theability to share theircaptured images with other users within 300 feet distance by temporary moving theimages to a cloud.
The smartphones can also connect wirelessly to Miracast enabled TVs forenjoying pictures,games, etc. on larger screens.
DROID COMMAND CENTER
It’s a widget for showing weather, time and battery details.
MOTOROLA CONNECT
It’s a chrome extension which will sync the smartphone’s messages and phone calls to the browser.
MOTOROLA ASSIST
This feature lets one configure the devices for various modes such as fordriving, meeting or sleeping.
DROID MIGRATE
This feature helps user to migrate their data from old phone to Motorola’s smartphones.
Pricing and Availability
Unlike other smartphone manufacturers which are going for larger screen sizes, faster processors, etc. Motorola aims to provide a complete experience to users by making full use of hardware’s potential with the software. the smartphone will be released in next month for Verizon customers. The unlocked version of the smartphones will be costing $499 for Droid Mini, $599 for Droid Ultra and $699 for Droid Maxx. The features of these smartphones also gives us an idea about what to expect in Moto X, which is the flagship smartphone of the company. There’s no official announcement if these devices will be launched in other countries like Indiaor not.
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