Motorola has launched its latest Droid-series smartphone, the Droid
Turbo, exclusively on US mobile carrier Verizon.
Verizon announced that the Droid
Turbo smartphone by Motorola will be available starting October 30 from its
online and retail stores.
The Droid Turbo has been priced at $199.99 (approximately
Rs. 12,250) for the 32GB model and will be available in Metallic Black,
Metallic Red, and Black Ballistic Nylon models.The 64GB variant comes at
$249.99 (approximately Rs. 15,300) and will be available in Black Ballistic
Nylon.
As expected, the new Motorola
Droid Turbo comes with some top-notch
specifications, such as a QHD display - which has been seen on smartphones such
as LG G3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 4, and is
perhaps the highlight of the device. It features a 5.2-inch QHD (1440x2560
pixels) display offering a pixel density of 565ppi, much higher than the
5.5-inch LG G3 at 534ppi and 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 4 at 515ppi. The screen also
includes Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protective layer.
The smartphone is powered by a
quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor clocked at 2.7GHz coupled with an
Adreno 420 GPU and 3GB of RAM.
The Android 4.4.4 KitKat-based Droid Turbo features
water-repellent nano-coating and is claimed to be 'water resistant', as per Motorola.
The Droid Turbo features with a massive 3900mAh battery,
the biggest amongst some of the high-end phones such as Sony Xperia Z3, Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, and even Moto X (Gen 2). The company claims
that the smartphone can deliver up to 48 hours of mixed usage. The Droid Turbo
also supports Motorola's Turbo Charger, a new accessory from the company stables
that is said to provide 8 hours of battery life in just 15 minutes of charging.
The Motorola Droid Turbo sports a 21-megapixel rear
autofocus camera with f/2.0 aperture and dual-LED flash. The rear camera comes
with features such as slow motion video; burst mode; auto HDR; Panorama, and
tap to focus. Meanwhile, it can also record 4K videos at 24fps. It includes a
2-megapixel front camera.
The Motorola Droid Turbo supports 4G LTE with LTE Cat 4,
apart from CDMA, EVDO Rev A, GSM/ UMTS/ HSPA+.
The Droid Turbo also includes features from the Moto X
(Gen 2) such as the Moto Display, which can wake up the phone to show the time
and notifications when user's reach for the phone. Other pre-installed apps
include Droid Zap app, feature that makes sharing of images and videos easy
with nearby friends, and Zap to TV, which uses Google Chromecast to create a
slideshow on a big screen.
The Metallic Red and Metallic Black comes with dimensions
143.5x73.3x10.6mm and Its weighs 169 grams. The Black Ballistic Nylon model, on
the other hand, comes with dimensions 143.5x73.3x11.2mm.It weighs 176 grams.
The handset includes accelerometer, ambient light, e-compass, gyroscope, Infrared,
and proximity sensors.
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