Motorola Droid Razr Maxx unboxing, impressions

The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx is available today and Verizon and Moto are saying that this is the one 4G LTE phone where you don’t have to worry about the battery life. We’ll review the Motorola Droid Razr soon but let’s take a look at the latest Android handset.

As the name would suggest, this is essentially the Droid Razr with a bigger battery and a thicker form factor. While it’s not “impossibly thin” like the Razr, the Droid Razr Maxx is still quite a slim handset – check out how it compares to the iPhone below. Still, without that super-thin form factor, it does lose a little of what made the Razr special, even if I found the Razr Maxx to be more comfortable in the hand.

Inside, the Droid Razr Maxx has everything you’d want in a modern smartphone: dual-core processor, 4G LTE, Bluetooth, GPS, 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capturing, 32 GB of combined memory, large touchscreen and more. If we had to nitpick, we could complain about the lack of NFC but that’s a very minor point. The Droid Razr Maxx is packed full of power.

The big appeal of this handset is the 3,300 mAh battery and Motorola is promising that this is the first 4G LTE handset that will actually be able to work through the day and night. It’s too soon to tell if that’s true but I’m very optimistic that it will pull through and actually enable a real 4G LTE lifestyle. The battery life on previous 4G LTE handsets haven’t been great and I don’t care how cool a phone is, if it runs out of battery quickly, it just becomes a fancy paper weight.

The teflon backing looks and feels really nice and the thicker body doesn’t hurt your hand like the original Razr kind of did. Motorola has its own custom version of Android Gingerbread on here and I’m already annoyed by some of it but I’ll give it a fair shake in the full review.