Exclusive Motorola Droid Turbo With Ultra-Fast Qualcomm Snapdragon 805, Quad HD Display Launched

Long rumored and finally announced at a Verizon event, the Motorola Droid Turbo is a Verizon-exclusive phone with a feature list that sounds like a dream — and a focus on longer battery life that’s overdue. The high-end phone landscape has taken an uptick in recent weeks, amazing speed and performance, the sharpest display of any smartphone comes with Turbo charging for additional battery life when you need it most.

Verizon announced that the Droid Turbo smartphone by Motorola will be available starting October 30 from its online and retail stores. It comes in a choice of a durable “Ballistic Nylon” build, or a “metalized” Kevlar fiber build.

The Droid Turbo’s best feature might be its 3,900mAh battery, which offers up to 48 hours of battery life according to Motorola and Verizon. And that battery charges fast, too: an included “Turbo Charger” allows the Turbo to get 8 hours of use in just 15 minutes of charge time.

The Droid Turbo will come with “pure” Android 4.4.4, but with a guaranteed upgrade to Android Lollipop when it’s available soon. The Turbo will also take advantage of Verizon’s wide-band audio call quality over LTE. Much like the Moto X, the Droid Turbo supports Moto Voice, active notifications, and Moto Assist for hands-free control. Stay tuned for how this all works when we actually review one soon.

The Droid Turbo has been priced at $199.99 (approximately Rs. 12,250) for the 32GB model with new two year activation or $25 per month on Verizon Edge, 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) with new two year activation or $27 per month on Verizon Edge, and will be available in Black Ballistic Nylon.

The Droid Turbo’s design features either ballistic nylon or metallized glass fiber on the back in red or black, patterned and a little more race-car edgy than the sleek Moto X. It’s a different design than the Moto X, but has the same type of curved lines and Motorola logo placement on the back. Droids have always emphasized a bit more ruggedness, and the Turbo’s feel at least sets it apart. It’s coated in spill-resistant nano-coating and has a Gorilla Glass 3-covered display, but isn’t rated to be waterproof. It feels good, and either smooth or textured.

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 and 64-bit memory access Adreno 420 @ 600 MHz GPU Natural Language Processor Contextual Computing Processor

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 Motorola Droid Turbo sports a 21-megapixel rear auto-focus camera with f/2.0 aperture and dual-LED flash captures 4k videos. 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.