The Unbreakable Moto Droid Turbo2

d‘wise one
Chip-Monks
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3 min readOct 28, 2015

Motorola introduces the world’s first “shatterproof display” on their well-endowed Droid Turbo 2 smartphone

The smartphone industry hasn’t witnessed any major developments of late, and has been stagnant for a while now, especially in the realm of Android phones.

Barring a few magnificent designs, there haven’t been any significant breakthroughs in the field of technology or hardware, for that matter.

However, with their latest smartphone, Motorola introduces something that should make the world (and it’s competition) sit up and take notice. Motorola’s Droid Turbo 2 is the world’s first smartphone with a shatterproof display — Motorola in fact claims this screen to be unbreakable!

Why? Well, it’s simple. Replacing broken screens usually costs almost half the device’s original, and screens so far have been the single largest casualties on portable devices.
Motorola says that 37% of smartphone owners have cracked their screens, with one display shattering every two seconds.

Consequently, people have stopped feeling disgruntled about their cracked screens, and have learnt to live with the crazy lines scattered across their otherwise-beautiful devices.

The Chicago-based electronics manufacturer maintains that the non-breakable screen is an engineering breakthrough. In an interview, Rick Osterloh, President of Motorola, said, “People take it for granted that screens on phones would break. Our big realization was: We shouldn’t accept that. We spent three years to do the research and development on this. It was really hard, and it took some terrific engineering work”.

Shatterproof technology is something that’s been attempted by screen makers for a long, long time; but none of them found success with it — until Motorola discovered this engineering marvel.

“The new Droid Turbo 2 features Moto ShatterShield, the world’s first shatterproof display. Our exclusive Moto ShatterShield display technology is an integrated system consisting of five layers designed from materials that absorb shock from impact and are guaranteed not to shatter”, says Motorola.

So how did Motorola achieve this?

Motorola went back to basics and looked at what causes screens to crack. They found that shock from the impact was the primary culprit. Having identified that, they worked to eliminate the shock experienced by the screen during drops or bangs.

Moto’s technology involves having five distinct layers to provide the screen with immense structural strength while enabling it with shock absorption capabilities, thus allowing it to suffer minimum damage during impact.

The “base plate” which is made of aluminium forms a chassis to provide structural integrity to the screen and connects it to the smartphone body. Then comes the AMOLED screen which in turn is covered by the “dual touch layer” that builds the contingency of two touch screens in case one gets damaged!
The second-from-top layer is what Motorola calls “Interior Lens” that provides additional protection under the top “Exterior Protective Lens”.

So sure is Motorola of the infallibility of this concoction, that Motorola provides a four year shatterproof warranty (including shattering and cracking) for the screen!

Gratifyingly, Motorola’s also ensured that the Droid Turbo 2’s specs are not average by any standards -

  • 5.43-inch Quad-HD, plastic-OLED display with ShatterShield technology
  • Octa-core Snapdragon 810 Processor coupled with 3 GB of RAM
  • 32 GB and 64 GB internal memory options
  • Android 5.1 Lollipop
  • 21 megapixel rear-facing shooter and 5 megapixel selfie camera
  • 3,760 mAh Battery with Turbo & Fast Wireless Charging

The Droid Turbo 2 is priced starting at USD 624 (~ INR 40,000), and will be sold exclusively through Verizon in the U.S. We’ll keep you posted when it becomes available in the Indian markets.

Originally published at Chip-Monks.

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