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When we met with Motorola at CES to discuss their newly unveiled Droid RAZR MAXX, representatives were tight-lipped about when the phone would launch. Luckily for us their website isn’t. All the talk of a release in the next few weeks looks to be true as the RAZR MAXX landing page listed over the weekend a street date of January 26th. The date lines up with Verizon’s typical Thursday release schedule.
For those unfamiliar with the RAZR MAXX, it is an identical device to the original Droid RAZR save for two key changes: a larger battery and a slightly thicker profile thanks to that larger battery. Though the handset can playback eight movies in a row on a single charge of its 3300mAh battery, it still manages to come in at under 9mm. Check out our first look at this past week’s CES.
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That battery’s the only thing I wish I could swap on my galaxy nexus
Soon.
http://www.seidioonline.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-3800-extended-life-battery-p/bacy38ssgnl-bk.htm
Who cares?
Locked boot loader. Non-replaceable battery. Releasing it with gingerbtead. And the “we don’t care about consumers wants we only care abou the carriers” attitude. I am starting to feel like Motorola Mobility doesn’t want to stay in business much longer.
Two comments:
1) I agree about the first two issues: locked boot loader & non-replaceable battery. Both are issues that make me hesitate to purchase the phone.
But releasing with Gingerbread isn’t something I hold against Motorola – ICS just hasn’t been out long enough to be released on this hardware. I am sure Motorola already has a line-up for ICS, when it is ready.
2) I seriously doubt Motorola Mobility has a death sentence – they sell a lot of phones, and I would venture to say that the average Android purchaser is not interested in development purposes – we are the minority.
Who cares?
Locked boot loader. Non-replaceable battery. Releasing it with gingerbtead. And the “we don’t care about consumers wants we only care abou the carriers” attitude. I am starting to feel like Motorola Mobility doesn’t want to stay in business much longer.
people who dont need a locked boot loader or removable battery care.. lol. a phone cant cater to every single aspect of the market. if u want a removable battery then this isnt the phone for you. likewise, if u want a hardware keyboard then this isnt the phone for you… or if u want a phone with an unlocked bootloader. this is for someone who wants a really thin smart phone with a comparatively long battery life. u might aswell complain it wont play IOS games and apps. lol. thats not the market its aimed at. i would of thought people who want unlocked bootloaders realise by now that motorola isnt the brand for them.
what you are missing is that Motorola promised to do unlocked bootloaders for future devices.
Additionally, I personally think Motorola makes a solid device – generally good battery life, and although the have a large quantity of models, imagine the developer support for the Droid series, if the bootloaders were unlocked?
Maybe they promised, but they haven’t delivered. In tech, one must learn to set promises aside and base future purchase decisions only on facts.
Hmmm? A rational understanding of the product’s focus.
When the RAZR first cam out there was expectation in the media that Bionic owners would be irked by the release of a “better” device so soon after they purchased their Bionics. I think this is far more likely to irk RAZR owners, especially those who are unhappy with their battery life.
One would think so. My niece has first dibbs on my RAZR now. I had planned to keep it as a back-up device but with the frequency of new phones bowing becoming so compacted on the timeline I will get the MAXX (d@mned consumerism/marketing) because I think I could actually use the extended battery capacity sooner rather than later. Not saying that some other fabulous phone won’t turn my head before too long though. I used to get at least one year, minimum, from a phone but that’s gone by the wayside. I won’t buy an iPhone and tend to stick with Motorola since my time with Sprint/Sanyo in ’05. We’ll see.
@Ben R that would be a huge improvement but I do use my nfc a lot so kinda sucks they aren’t including it