The Verizon Wireless Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX

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Well it is here, and I’ll tell you it is not QUITE as impressive looking as the Droid RAZR (it is thicker) BUT (and there is a serious Sir Mix-a-Lot BUT here)… over 20 hours of talk time. That’s right… I said it: OVER 20 HOURS of TALK TIME. So what’s the deal with Droid RAZR MAXX? It’s the same configuration as the Droid RAZR it just has a bigger battery in it, which makes it thicker. If you recall the Droid RAZR (and the MAXX) doesn’t have a removable battery. This is kind of a departure from the “norm” and makes a lot of (us) nerds feel uncomfortable. This is the type of phone you want to have if you don’t want an Apple iPhone 4s but you still want to stand out. It’s sleek, the battery life is insane, it has great horse power, a lot of RAM, a huge screen, gorilla glass (I don’t even bother putting a screen protector on phones with this stuff) and the price is just… right.

GENERAL

4G: 4G LTE

ANDROID™ PLATFORM: Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) upgradeable

MULTIPLE NETWORKS: CDMA800, CDMA1900, LTE B13 700

TOUCH TABLET

CAMERA

CAMERA

MEGAPIXELS: 8 MP (rear facing camera)

CAMERA TYPE: HD P2P Video

DIGITAL ZOOM: 8x

FOCUS: Automatic

FRONT FACING IMAGER: 1.3 MP with 720p HD video capture

IMAGE EDITING TOOLS: Cropping, rotating, Geo Tagging, brightness, color, enhance, flip, resizing, and effects

MUSIC & VIDEO

MUSIC ENABLED¹

MUSIC PLAYER: Yes

SPEAKER EFFECTS: Equalizer with Bass Punch

VIDEO CAPABLE: Yes

VIDEO CAPTURE: 1080p HD, tri-microphone for audio scene selection

PLAYABLE FORMATS: AAC, H.263, H.264, MP3, MPEG-4, WAV, WMA9, WMA10, eAAC+, AMR NB, AAC+, WMA v9, MIDI

STREAMING MEDIA: Audio, Video, Internet Radio

VIDEO CAPTURE RATE: HD 1080p quality, 1920X1080 resolution, up to 30fps capture and playback

WIRED STEREO DEVICE EFFECTS: 3D Stereo, Home Theater, Live Stage, Custom

POWER

TALK TIME (CONTINUOUS)²: up to 21.5 hrs.

BATTERY TYPE: 3300 mAh Li Ion

STANDBY TIME³: up to 380 hrs.

MESSAGING

EMAIL⁴: Corporate Sync, Google Mail, Push Email, Yahoo® Mail, Hotmail, AOL

MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING (MMS)⁴: Yes

PREDICTIVE TEXT: SWYPE®-enabled, multitouch keyboard with next word prediction

TEXT MESSAGING (SMS)⁴: Yes

INSTANT MESSAGING (IM)⁴: Google Talk™, Windows Live Messenger®, Yahoo!® Messenger, AIM®

IMAGE FILE FORMATS: BMP, PNG, GIF, JPEG

VOICE MAIL⁴: Standard voice mail, Verizon Visual Voice Mail™ (capable)

CONNECTIVITY

SYNCHRONIZATION: FOTA, PC Sync, Corporate Sync, Google Sync

WIFI: 802.11 b,g, n

BLUETOOTH® TECHNOLOGY⁵: Bluetooth Smart Ready; Stereo Bluetooth Class 2, Version 4.0 LE+EDR OPP, DUN, SPP, GAVDP, AVDTP, AVCTP, A2DP, AVRCP 1.4, HFP 1.5, DID, HID, HSP, MAP, PAN-NAP, PBAP, SM,GATT/ATT,GAP,HR

DATA ACCESS⁶: Yes

4G MOBILE HOTSPOT: Be a mobile hot spot for up to 8 other devices

CONNECTOR TYPE: Micro USB, HDMI® Micro

DATA TRANSMISSION RATE⁶: USB 2.0 (High speed)

DLNA (DIGITAL LIVING NETWORK ALLIANCE): v. 1.5; Share content wirelessly with other DLNA equipped devices

GPS AND LOCATION SERVICES¹: aGPS (assisted), eCompass, sGPS (simultaneous), GLONASS

HEADSET JACK: 3.5 mm

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN)

INTERNET & GAMES

WEB BROWSER: Android HTML Webkit, Adobe® Flash® Player 10; Firefox browser via webtop

ACCESSORY COMPATIBILITY

HEARING AID COMPATIBLE: Rated M4, T3

TEXT TELEPHONE (TTY) COMPATIBILITY

BUSINESS SECURITY AND PRODUCTIVITY

BUSINESS READY: Business ready with productivity and security features.

CALLING

SPEAKERPHONE: Yes

CALLER ID⁴: On main display, Picture ID, Ringer ID

ADVANCED SPEECH RECOGNITION: Yes

AUTOMATIC REDIAL: Yes

CALL WAITING: Yes

CONFERENCE CALLING⁴: Group call

EMERGENCY DIAL: Yes

MUTE CALL: Yes

CALLING

NOISE REDUCTION: Dual microphone noise reduction

PHONE BOOK⁷: Unified contact list (Gmail™, Exchange,Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn)

SPEED DIAL: Speed dial, direct dial shortcut

VIBRACALL: Yes

VOICE DIALING: Yes

WAIT AND PAUSE DIALING: Yes

CARRIER FEATURES AND SERVICES

VERIZON WIRELESS: Back Up Assistant, Verizon Media Manager, VCast Music

GOOGLE MOBILE SERVICES

Gmail™

Google Calendar™

Google Contact Sync™

Google Latitude™

Google Maps Street View

Google Maps™

Google Maps™ Navigation

Google Quick Search Box™

Google Talk™

Google eBooks™

Google™ Search by Voice

YouTube™

INCLUDED APPLICATIONS

BUSINESS⁸: Quickoffice®, GoToMeeting®, MOTOPRINT

ENTERTAINMENT⁸: Netflix(support resolution up to HD), Blockbuster, Amazon Kindle, Let’s Golf 2, Madden NFL 12, NFL Mobile, Slacker

LIFESTYLE⁸: Smart Actions, MOTOACTV

MOTOCAST: Stream or download your music, pics and more from your PC to your phone.

MOTOCAST ENABLED

SMART ACTIONS: This application lets you take control and mastermind your phone’s settings and actions in an infinite number of combinations.

SMART ACTIONS ENABLED

INTERFACE

OPERATING SYSTEM: Android 2.3.5 (Gingerbread) Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) upgradeable

LIGHT-RESPONSIVE DISPLAY: Yes

KEYPAD LOCK: Yes

HAPTIC FEEDBACK: Yes

DEDICATED KEYS: Volume control, Back, Search, Menu, Power/Lock, Home

BACKLIGHT: Yes

PINCH TO ZOOM: Yes

TOUCH SCREEN: Capacitive touch screen

VIRTUAL KEYBOARD: Multi-touch and Swype

VOICE COMMANDS: Google Voice Search and Voice Actions, and Voice Commands

PERSONALIZATION

RINGTONE FORMATS: AAC, AAC+, eAAC, MP3

WALLPAPERS⁴: Preloaded and downloadable, Live wallpaper

PHYSICAL

SIZE (H X W X D): 130.7 x 68.9 x 8.99 mm

DISPLAY SIZE: 4.3-in.; Super AMOLED Advanced qHD(540 x 960)

WEIGHT: 145 grams

ANTENNA TYPE: Dual

FORM FACTOR: Touch Tablet

MATERIALS AND FINISH: Made with Dupont™ KEVLAR® fiber and scratch-resistant Corning® Gorilla® Glass

PRODUCTIVITY AND SOFTWARE

CALCULATOR: Yes

CALENDAR: Calendar, Corporate (Exchange) calendar, Google Calendar

AIRPLANE MODE: Yes

CLOCK: Alarm clock

TECHNOLOGY

MEMORY⁹: 16 GB internal; 16 GB microSD card pre-installed

ACCELEROMETER: Yes

NETWORKS⁴: CDMA800, CDMA1900, LTE B13 700

PROCESSOR SPEED: Dual-Core 1.2GHz , Dual-Channel RAM Processor

REMOVABLE MEMORY¹⁰: supports up to 32 GB microSD

SENSORS: Proximity, ambient light, eCompass, battery temp, Accelerometer

WEBTOP

WEBTOP APPLICATION: Extend view to larger screen, type on full keyboard & access full web – multi-task on-the-go

WEBTOP ENABLED

I like the Verizon Wireless Droid RAZR MAXX a lot. I would give it 5 out of 5 stars but I have to take 1 star for not shipping with ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0) and 1 star for not having the option to unlock the bootloader. I want to be able to do what I want to do with my phone and that includes removing the bloatware applications you bundle with it. They take up space, suck battery life, and are useless because I’m not interested in them. Unlock the bootloader so I can have root access and remove the stuff and I’ll be a happy camper. (For those not in the “know” you can’t uninstall the apps that most cell phone companies install on your phone by default, unless you have root access)