Droid Maxx 2 Promises Superior Battery Life on the Cheap

Verizon just unleashed two new Droid smartphones , each styled after Motorola ’s late . Where the burly Droid Turbo 2 fall down more inline with the top - tier up Moto X Pure Edition , the Droid Maxx 2 is a Verizon versionof the Moto X Play , a phone that never actually came to the U.S. Under a more or less unlike pretense , it ’s now in the states .

If you want good shelling living for cheap , well , that ’s why the Droid Maxx 2 exist .

As Motorola designate , the Maxx 2 is designate for period of play ( hence the name ) , specifically — playing medium of any type . Where many phone prove to be the “ do everything ” communicating twist , the Droid Maxx 2 can do one thing really well — consume multimedia system . With a full HD display and a 3,630mAh assault and battery , this affair should be able to keep ticking well - past most phones , particularly with Energy Department - hungry Quad HD display .

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Factor in the front - facing talker that will in reality contrive the sound toward you when you ’re without earphone , and you ’ve got a piddling gadget equipped to be a pretty great consumption twist at $ 20 / month ( $ 380ish ) .

The design also is n’t horrendous either , with a sort of rubbery , subdued - touching ending with aluminum siding . However , the bezel are a piddling thick-skulled on the back and do n’t exactly scream high quality , but the sloped back gain it pretty comfortable to give and without a physical home button , Motorola can mob in a lot of sieve in a little package .

That ’s not to say it ca n’t do all the other smartphone - y things you ’d your sound to do , it can — but not quite as well as its older crony , the Droid Turbo 2 . The Droid Maxx 2 comes with a Snapdragon 615 processor , which is a stone’s throw down from Qualcomm ’s top - of - the - phone line 800 - serial , which is a 64 - chip quad - effect processor . Not shabby , but nothing to write home about either .

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The Droid Maxx 2 also comes with a 21 - megapixel shooter but is a slenderly downgraded lense since it can only capture video recording at 1080p .

The only ruin , which is also dependable for the Turbo 2 , is the software . That ’s not to say it ’s bad , but the Maxx and Turbo come with Android Lollipop 5.1.1 , so all those new addition in Marshmallow will have to wait for now . I also bid the bad news stop there , but it get worse . Verizon absolute loads this thing up with bloat , in the grade of Verizon - specific apps , mobile games , every Amazon app conceivable , and lifestyle apps like NFL Mobile . Some of these are removable , like the fluid games , but the rest are not . Forcing NFL Mobile onto my smartphone without the option to delete it is just slow . And I even like football game !

The back is also removable , but do n’t get too excited . You ca n’t murder the battery . You also do n’t ca n’t get at expandable memory either ( that ’s in the SIM tray ) , it ’s only for taking off or replacing obliterable packs that come it a clustering of dissimilar colors . Cool , I think , but also a small let down .

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For “ howler ” per dollar , most will be interested in the mega - powerful Droid Turbo 2 , but if you could get by with a little less but still do n’t want to give anything in terms of battery lifetime ( Verizon promises 2 day , but we ’ll see about that ) , then the Maxx 2 could be a consideration . But for the damage , it ’s almost impossible to not — at the very least — hold in outthe same - priced Nexus 5X , which occur with latest Android and can journey to other carriers , let in Google ’s own Project Fi , if need be .

But compare to the spec’d out Turbo 2 , the Maxx 2 gets a lilliputian lost in its tincture .

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