Motorola Droid RAZR Maxx - 3300mAh battery, <9mm thick

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If this comes out over here I'll eat my hat. Its CDMA chaps, if it does come out over here it will be likely behind the pack and 9 months late.
 
Scougar said:
Also, if that phone were to come over here, they would probably change the tech for the european version anyway, so it doesn't mean it 'won't' come here.
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Changing the radios isn't just a plug and play thing, they'd have to redesign the antenna setup and the circuit board to accommodate different chips, then test and integrate a different radio stack. It's not as simple as it sounds to "change the tech for the european version"

I'm not saying it definitely won't come out either, but like Myshra says it'd probably be a while.
 
Myshra said:
If this comes out over here I'll eat my hat. Its CDMA chaps, if it does come out over here it will be likely behind the pack and 9 months late.
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They just need to add the larger battery/back to a GSM Razr. Although they probably won't bother without battery killing LTE and minimal EU presence?
 
I thought the razor batty was non removable making carrying a spare battery not a useful option so the extra size in the new one will be nice though LTE will impact it.
 
Tatsuki said:
I thought the razor batty was non removable making carrying a spare battery not a useful option so the extra size in the new one will be nice though LTE will impact it.
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The spare battery argument is saying that one shouldn't buy a phone for battery life, just buy a better/cheaper phone and get spare batteries or external batteries, in this case I guess a GS2.

A UK version won't be carrying LTE if it comes we've got a good few years before 4G becomes standard here.

I hate changing my phone's battery but then at the moment I have a blackberry so it takes 10 years to start up every time I do a battery pull :D
 
Awesome results for a 9mm 4.3" AMOLED phone.

http://blog.gsmarena.com/motorola-droid-razr-maxx-battery-trial-is-over-meet-our-new-champion-test/

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Think this willbe my next phone, that battery life is epic and its a great phone on top of that :cool:
 
MikeHunt79 said:
NIce graphs, I'm amazed how poor the blackberry phones talk time is, I was under the impression that they were aimed at heavy users?

Also, does anyone know how many mAh the iPhone 4s battery is? It seems to do pretty well for video playback.
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1430mAh but the iPhone has a smallish and very efficient LCD/LED screen, it consumes about a third the power compared to larger AMOLEDs in normal use. It also has a beefy, well suited decoder (snapdragons still use partial decode?)
Still I'd prefer to watch something on a larger screen and take the battery hit (or not with this phone)
 
sarge78 said:
1430mAh but the iPhone has a smallish and very efficient LCD/LED screen, it consumes about a third the power compared to larger AMOLEDs in normal use. It also has a beefy, well suited decoder (snapdragons still use partial decode?)
Still I'd prefer to watch something on a larger screen and take the battery hit (or not with this phone)
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Cheers, I guess the screen is probably the biggest battery drain for smartphones, but a bigger screen allows for bigger batteries because the phone is bigger overall.

With any luck more manufacturers will take motorolas lead here, it would be nice to have a smartphone which didn't have to be charged every night. :)
 
More I read about the phone the more it sounds like Motorola have knocked it out of the park with this release, hope it makes it over to the UK for you guys :p :cool:
 
Rich_L said:
More I read about the phone the more it sounds like Motorola have knocked it out of the park with this release, hope it makes it over to the UK for you guys :p :cool:
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If it still has the same issues as the original Droid Razr, I don't think it will be that good.
 
It's not even that thick with the huge battery :-) Very good.

Buy one, turn off the 4G/LTE when not needed, and you'll have an exceptional ly long lasting phone without the bulk :-)
 
Robbo said:
If it still has the same issues as the original Droid Razr, I don't think it will be that good.
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Tbh my recollection of the issues affecting the original were basically:

1) No ICS - not essential by any means, and an update will be coming
2) Size/shape - Subjective, plus it's a 4.3" screen, and it's very thin - there's isn't really anywhere else to go. Also it seems reviewers prefer the shape of the Maxx :p
3) Camera - Probably the only downside worth considering, but then, it's a phone not a camera.
4) Battery - Solved in epic style, apart from complaints that it isn't removable - but that didn't exactly stop the iPhone from being a success.
5) Locked bootloader - A fair complaint which by all accounts is laid at the door of Verizon vs Motorola, but if ICS is all it shapes up to be then perhaps this won't be as big an issue as with previous iterations of Android, plus the phat battery should also render many of the 'low-voltage/long battery life' ROMs less relevant.

From most of the Maxx reviews, the biggest issue is calling Motorala a bunch of *ahems* for letting people buy the original then releasing this 3 months after :p
 
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The RAZR ain't that great at all - it's pre meh at everything it does. The MAXX on the other hand is unparalled in terms of battey life. That's about it. Motoblur with its white menu background and horrible interface is just, well, horrible.
 
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