If
you rewind the clocks by about 8 years, the only mobile that was on people’s
minds and undeniably on their tongues as well was the ‘Motorola Razr’. The
general population was so head over heels in love with the mobile that even
today, it remains one of the largest selling devices in the history of
smartphones and the characteristic that made it stand out from the regular
run-of-the-mill phones was: it’s SLEEKNESS.
Back
to the present, and you are again greeted by the same company trying to
recreate the yesteryear’s magic by releasing an entirely different beast
sporting the same appellation. Yes, the ‘Motorola Droid Razr’ is that phone,
which for a brief period of time justified the title ‘World’s thinnest
smartphone’ awarded to it. So, did it meet with the same fate as its
predecessor namesake? The initial results: Not Quite.
Now
if you analyze why, you will eventually get to know that though the smartphone
has the build quality unmatched by any other phone and its internals match the
internals of the best phones available on the market, the main factor that let
it down a bit was only one: Battery Life. Is it that Critical? Yes, it is and
there are no doubts and second thoughts about it.
The
reason is pretty simple and straight forward. Smartphones are getting
increasingly smart and increasingly capable and they are being integrated with
functionalities that can guzzle battery much in the same way as SUVs guzzle
fuel. Yes, I am talking about you LTE!!! So, what good is a phone that lets you
do numerous things but which requires the user to charge it once every half-a-day
if used extensively?
So, what
has Motorola done about it? Simple. They went back to the drawing board,
figured out what
people wanted, designed and brought out an upgraded version:
the ‘Motorola Droid Razr Maxx’ and if you think they only changed the name.
Well, think again. The ‘Motorola Droid Razr Maxx’ has a 3300 mAh battery tucked
in its back that lets the phone have a talk time of around 21 hours!!!
Stunning, isn’t it? Initial reviews suggest that though the phone isn’t coming
close to the claimed talk time it is still beating every other phone’s talk
time capacity by a HUGE margin. Now, why is this relevant?
As I
mentioned, today’s smartphones let the users do numerous things like Watch
Videos, Browse the Internet, Listen to Music, Read books, Write notes and last
but not the least Make and Receive Calls. To support all these functions, the
phone needs to have battery-life so that user is able to do all the functions
listed above on a typical day. Now, the 3300 mAh battery is so good that it
gives the ‘Droid Razr Maxx’ enough juice to let you watch videos continuously for
up to 15 – 16 hours.
The ‘Droid
Razr Maxx’ isn’t the first phone that has broken the non-imposed thresholds of
battery capacity that a smartphone today has got. Samsung got to the party
first, with their super-sized smartphone: the ‘Galaxy Note’. When all the
smartphones being released into the market were sporting batteries with
capacities ranging around 1500 mAh – 1800 mAh, it went ahead and included a
2500 mAh battery to power its beast. But, the important difference between the ‘Galaxy
Note’ and the ‘Droid Razr Maxx’ is that a 2500 mAh battery is powering a 5.3
inch screen loaded ‘Galaxy Note’ whereas a 3300 mAh battery is powering 4.3
inch screen loaded ‘Droid Razr Maxx’.
It
is a known fact in the electronics industry that once a manufacturer comes out
with a feature or a technology, the competitors improvise on it at such a pace
that it even amazes the company that has introduced the technology in the first
place. So, if the 3300 mAh battery sporting Motorola Droid Razr Maxx is
regarded as the starting point, you can foresee where the middle and the ending
points are. Can’t you?
Stay Tuned..!!!
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