This
is the exact situation that Motorola and Verizon’s new Droid Turbo, is meant to
help you avoid. Packing a massive battery, available for $199 with a two-year
contract the Turbo can last up to 48 hours on a single charge.
The
Turbo is more than just a giant battery. In fact, it’s easily one of the best
smartphones Motorola has to offer.
The Droid Turbo uses Kevlar to help give it stability while keeping its weight in check. Turbo is available with either a metalized glass fiber back panel or with a ballistic nylon panel.
The ballistic nylon option gives the Turbo’s back panel the feel of an old backpack and also helps keep the phone from slipping out of your hand. The metalized glass fiber gives the Turbo’s back a soft-touch feel that makes the phone more pleasant to hold.
Unfortunately,
the ballistic nylon-clad Turbo is actually pretty fat. Measuring
0.44 inches thick, the Turbo is chubbier than Moto X
(0.39 inches), as well as Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and Apple’s
iPhone 6 (0.27 inches). And at 6.2 ounces, the Turbo is heavier
than the Moto X (5.1 ounces), the Galaxy S5 (5.1 ounces),
and the iPhone 6 (4.6 ounces).The Turbo’s AMOLED screen technology made reds and blues look positively alive. Colours were more accurate on the iPhone 6, but I think most people would prefer the Turbo’s screen. The competing Galaxy S5, however, offered the best display of the group, producing absolutely gorgeous colors, with the Moto X not far behind.
The Droid Turbo runs on Google’s Android 4.4 KitKat operating system - not the latest release, Android 5.0 Lollipop.
KitKat is an excellent operating system. And unlike other Android phone makers that modify the OS with their own overlays, like Samsung’s overly complicated TouchWiz and HTC’s Sense, the Droid Turbo’s version of Android is unmolested. It’s as easy to navigate as Google intended.
Like Motorola’s Moto X, the Droid Turbo comes loaded with the company’s impressive Moto app suite, which includes Moto Actions, Moto Assist, Moto Display, and Moto Voice.
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