Intro
Welcome to my review of the Motorola Droid Turbo. It has been long overdue so here it is. Let's first start off with the design.
Welcome to my review of the Motorola Droid Turbo. It has been long overdue so here it is. Let's first start off with the design.
Design
The Droid Turbo comes in two different types, the Kevlar which is smoother and in the colors: black or red, and the ballistic nylon which is my favorite that is in black with a textured back. On the front you'll see that the front camera is placed in the center instead of the sides, a single front facing speaker at the very top of the phone; the screen and the capacitive buttons. The right side if the phone is where the buttons are, nothing is on the other side. The power button is above the volume rocker and the sim tray is right under the volume rocker, so you have to lift the volume buttons to get to the sim tray. Under the button of the phone is the charging port that is centered and in the top right is the earphone jack. The back part is where the camera is with two LED flash, one on the right and left part of the camera. Below that is the Motorola logo and further below is the name "Driod" there. Some of them has Verizon on it too.
The Droid Turbo comes in two different types, the Kevlar which is smoother and in the colors: black or red, and the ballistic nylon which is my favorite that is in black with a textured back. On the front you'll see that the front camera is placed in the center instead of the sides, a single front facing speaker at the very top of the phone; the screen and the capacitive buttons. The right side if the phone is where the buttons are, nothing is on the other side. The power button is above the volume rocker and the sim tray is right under the volume rocker, so you have to lift the volume buttons to get to the sim tray. Under the button of the phone is the charging port that is centered and in the top right is the earphone jack. The back part is where the camera is with two LED flash, one on the right and left part of the camera. Below that is the Motorola logo and further below is the name "Driod" there. Some of them has Verizon on it too.
Display
The display, it is a 5.2 inches Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, 16M colours with a resolution of 1440x2560 pixels (565ppi pixel density) and is protected by gorilla glass 3. As these phones now are having their display curved along the sides, this one is also too. The colors does not look washed out and the texts are very sharp, though it is not that good at viewing the panel in direct sunlight. It can be viewed but, not so clearly in direct light hitting the display.
The display, it is a 5.2 inches Super AMOLED capacitive touch screen, 16M colours with a resolution of 1440x2560 pixels (565ppi pixel density) and is protected by gorilla glass 3. As these phones now are having their display curved along the sides, this one is also too. The colors does not look washed out and the texts are very sharp, though it is not that good at viewing the panel in direct sunlight. It can be viewed but, not so clearly in direct light hitting the display.
Camera
Around the back is a 21MP camera with dual LED flash. Photos comes out very crisp and sharp, colors looks great with deeper blacks. Even though it doesn't have OIS (optical imagine stabilization) which would make it better, the photos still looks great. It shoots videos in 2160p@24fps, 1080p@30fps so you can take videos in 4K. Yeah! You can get your 4K on. The front facing camera is a 2MP and shoots at 1080p. Front facing pictures are okay.
Around the back is a 21MP camera with dual LED flash. Photos comes out very crisp and sharp, colors looks great with deeper blacks. Even though it doesn't have OIS (optical imagine stabilization) which would make it better, the photos still looks great. It shoots videos in 2160p@24fps, 1080p@30fps so you can take videos in 4K. Yeah! You can get your 4K on. The front facing camera is a 2MP and shoots at 1080p. Front facing pictures are okay.
Software
For software, it is running on 4.4.4 KitKat with Motorola's close to stock Android skin on top. You can use the Motorola voice commands to control the phone by: opening camera to take pictures, reply to messages, create events, asking for the weather etc... Sometimes it is gimmicky like when you're done telling the phone what to do and it's still listening to or takes awhile to process what you said when you could just simply do it yourself that would be faster. Not saying its slow but sometimes it takes awhile but it is really good. It also has the crack twice gesture to open the camera to take those pictures for you. Active notifications is even on it. You see your notifications on your lock screen and you can too interact with it right there, because it is AMOLED it only uses the necessary pixels when using active notifications. Even the wave gesture you get with it. Just wave your hand over the screen and it'll light up to show you your notifications. If you don't want your notifications to show up on your lock screen or have the wave gesture be active, you can simply disable the features whenever you want.
For software, it is running on 4.4.4 KitKat with Motorola's close to stock Android skin on top. You can use the Motorola voice commands to control the phone by: opening camera to take pictures, reply to messages, create events, asking for the weather etc... Sometimes it is gimmicky like when you're done telling the phone what to do and it's still listening to or takes awhile to process what you said when you could just simply do it yourself that would be faster. Not saying its slow but sometimes it takes awhile but it is really good. It also has the crack twice gesture to open the camera to take those pictures for you. Active notifications is even on it. You see your notifications on your lock screen and you can too interact with it right there, because it is AMOLED it only uses the necessary pixels when using active notifications. Even the wave gesture you get with it. Just wave your hand over the screen and it'll light up to show you your notifications. If you don't want your notifications to show up on your lock screen or have the wave gesture be active, you can simply disable the features whenever you want.
Performance and battery life
On to the performance. It is built in with the Qualcomm Snapgragon 805 chipset, a Quad-core 2.7 GHz Krait 450 CPU, an Andreno 420 GPU with 3GB of RAM which has internal storage of 32GB ($199.99 USD on a two year contract) or the 64GB ($249.99 USD on a two year contract) [prices are from Motorola's website]. Even though it is available in 64GB, for some people, that is not enough and the Droid Turbo does not have expandable storage so you are stuck with what you get. With specs like that, the phone performs really good, even on high graphics games. You won't really get that much stutters when using the phone. Let's move on to the battery. It is a 3900 mAh battery, it is a pretty big battery and it should give probably around 5 hours of on screen time. The phone is equipped with the Qi wireless charging and it has that fast charging capability.
On to the performance. It is built in with the Qualcomm Snapgragon 805 chipset, a Quad-core 2.7 GHz Krait 450 CPU, an Andreno 420 GPU with 3GB of RAM which has internal storage of 32GB ($199.99 USD on a two year contract) or the 64GB ($249.99 USD on a two year contract) [prices are from Motorola's website]. Even though it is available in 64GB, for some people, that is not enough and the Droid Turbo does not have expandable storage so you are stuck with what you get. With specs like that, the phone performs really good, even on high graphics games. You won't really get that much stutters when using the phone. Let's move on to the battery. It is a 3900 mAh battery, it is a pretty big battery and it should give probably around 5 hours of on screen time. The phone is equipped with the Qi wireless charging and it has that fast charging capability.
Previous blogs,
Droid Turbo specs: http://lionotech.blogspot.com/2015/01/motorola-droid-turbo-specifications.html?m=1
Droid Turbo first impression: http://lionotech.blogspot.com/2015/01/motorola-droid-turbo-first-impressions.html?m=1
iPhone 6 Plus review: http://lionotech.blogspot.com/2015/01/iphone-6-plus-review.html?m=1
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