The Motorola Razr Maxx has been out in the US for a while, known as
the Droid Razr Maxx, but the rest of the world is now treated to the
smartphone.
You get everything the Motorola Razr offers, except the super-thin chassis, as the Razr Maxx has gained love handles to accommodate a huge 3,300 mAh battery.
The
Motorola Razr Maxx is available in the UK for around £430 SIM-free and
is available free on contracts starting at around £25-£30 per month. In the US you can nab a Motorola Droid Razr Maxx 4G today for $650 SIM-free, or around $200 on a two year contract.
Motorola claims that the 3,300mAh battery will provide 17.6 hours of talk time, which blows its rivals, such as the Samsung Galaxy S3 (11.6 hours) and iPhone 4S (8 hours), out of the water. However,
you can't stuff a battery, which is almost twice the size of the
1,780mAh one found in the original Motorola Razr, into the same, slender
7.1mm handset.
See how good the beefed up battery is in our power test video:
This
has seen the Motorola Razr Maxx expand to 9mm in depth and add a little
more weight. The original Razr weighs 127 grams, so at 145 grams, the
Motorola Razr Maxx is slightly bulked up, but hardly fat.
For perspective that's only 10 grams more than the Galaxy Nexus, and 35 grams less than the recently released Droid 4 in the US. In
fact the flatter back and more even weight distribution actually makes
it easier to hold than its predecessor, which we found to be slightly
top-heavy.
The rest of the internal specs are identical to the
Razr, so you get a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB RAM, 8MP
rear camera with LED flash and 1080p video recording, front facing 1.3MP
camera and Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. However, an update
to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is on the way and rolling out now across Europe. We
appreciate the new balance, but we wish Motorola had taken time to
redesign the Razr without such a huge bezel, which adds unnecessary
width and length when held in the hand.
We mentioned in our Razr
review that the deep bezel made the phone's 4.3-inch Super AMOLED
display appear smaller than it really was, and the Motorola Razr Maxx
does nothing to rectify this. There's
still the fiddly micro SIM and microSD card slots hidden behind a panel
on the left-hand side of the smartphone, and while not impossible to
manipulate, we would have liked this to be easier to use.
On top
you'll find a 3.5mm headphone jack, along with mini USB and micro HDMI
slots, enabling you to hook the Motorola Razr Maxx up to a number of
peripherals. The
only physical buttons on the Motorola Razr Maxx are located on the
right-hand side. There's a lock key towards the top of the handset,
which we found was easy to hit, but the volume rocker key located
towards the centre of the handset is slightly more tricky to find.
As
with the Razr, you can't remove the battery from the Motorola Razr
Maxx, which may put some people off who like to have that option, just
in case they need to do a hard reset or wish to buy an additional
battery for backup.
However, we can't really complain about the
Motorola Razr Maxx's Kevlar-clad body. It feels almost as good as its
super-thin Maxx-less cousin, and that's saying something.
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