Too little and too late.Motorola’s David Schuster announced on his Google+ page that announced software upgrades for Verizon’s DROID Ultra, DROID Mini and DROID Maxx have been cancelled. So, instead of Android Lollipop, they will stay on Android 4.4.4 KitKat. The Droid Mini started on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean while ...
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The first DROID Turbo was made by Motorola and carried as a exclusive series by Verizon. It took seven-plus months for the phone to get the upgrade from Android KitKat to Lollipop. The DROID Turbo 2, forged from the same partnership, was
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Buying new gear around Valentine’s Day can be a very treacherous affair, as you don’t want to make your better half jealous, but you may also not want to spend a fortune on smartphones for both of you.Luckily, Verizon has cash-strapped lovers covered this year, proposing you “mix and match the Droid Turbo 2 and Maxx 2” for a cool 50 percent discount on any of the two devices. Not both, mind you, as you’ll still need to pay full retail for one of the big-battery handhelds.If you’re willing to cough up $624 on the Turbo 2, you can then choose to drop an additional $312 on a ...
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Update: BB-8 is overr8’d. See you next week!An Android tablet that doesn’t quite belong. HTC news on both sides of the good/bad divide. An ugly-as-sin Apple accessory. And a Droid Turbo 2 that looks like Star Wars’ own BB-8! Where are you going to find talk like this anywhere else on the internet? If you answered “anywhere I look,” you’re right indeed … but you ended up here so welcome to the party. All of the above – plus your listener mail – awaits on episode 178 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the video broadcast from 1:30pm Eastern on ...
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We tracked the pitiful software story of the DROID Turbo. It launched with Android KitKat just after Lollipop was made publicly available. The update to 5.0 took six whole months. We spread the blame between the manufacturer and its exclusive partner, Verizon. But could the two have come together to allow for a more efficient ...
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You don’t need to be a big sci-fi fan to be excited about the next series of Star Wars movies on the way, and right now we find ourselves just days away from the premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Verizon has already shown its own Star Wars love with its Google Cardboard giveaway earlier this month, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Beyond presenting the official red carpet livestream from the film’s world premiere, and giving away 12,000 tickets to subscribers through ...
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Why buy a Droid?Six years ago, when Motorola and Verizon Wireless introduced the very first Droid as the alternative to the AT&T-exclusive iPhone, the answer was obvious. With near-stock Google software running on an aggressively angular chassis and backed up by an even more aggressive marketing campaign, the original Droid was a carefully crafted “anti-iPhone.” It was positioned as the more-powerful, more-capable answer to Apple’s offering, and it sold
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We were in New York for the Droid Turbo 2 launch where a short 20-minute press conference took place in which the phone was dropped several times. And the screen didn’t shatter. We discussed what Motorola’s Shatter Shield technique covers in terms of protecting the phone itself during this week’s ...
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Buying a new smartphone isn’t at all cheap, and depending on the device you purchased, fixing a shattered display can be extremely expensive. Aftermarket solutions don’t always work as intended, and getting a factory display replacement doesn’t always mean just replacing the shattered glass. Motorola made a solid point on the Droid Turbo 2 announcement for how long the company spent trying to find a solution for this, and today the company explains why.By now you’ve probably noticed ...
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Back in late August, Motorola rumors focused on a new 5.43-inch quad HD handset, one supposedly under development as codename Bounce. It wasn’t long though before we heard a possible commercial name for the handset, as new sources described the phone as the Moto X Force. In the weeks that followed, those Moto X Force rumors evolved into rumors of the Droid Turbo 2, under the expectation that Motorola would be releasing what was ...
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The iPhone 6s couldn’t hold on to its top ten position in one of the world’s most reliable photo/video-taking performance hierarchy for long, as another 21 megapixel beast from Motorola challenged the overall leaders.Much like the Moto X Style, aka X Pure Edition, the Verizon-exclusive ...
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Meeting the Droid Turbo 2 and Droid Maxx 2 at the Motorola and Verizon New York City launch event this morning was like finally getting introduced to that friend-of-a-friend you’ve heard about for a while, but your paths never seemed to cross – and wouldn’t you know it, but he brought along his smarter, more capable brother, whom you’re only just learning about now for the first time. Yes, the Droid Maxx 2 is essentially the same Moto X Play we saw debut internationally earlier ...
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Motorola and Verizon came together once again to cement one of the last US carrier-OEM ties for another year in the form of two Droid phones: the MAXX 2 and Turbo 2. The Droid franchise has enjoyed a
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The new Droids have arrived, and dare we say, these two sure might be worth the wait. While we’re a couple months removed from the Motorola summer launch event that brought us the Moto X Style and Moto X Play, that downtime has given the manufacturer opportunity to finish work on a new handset; while the Droid Maxx 2 is largely the US reincarnation of the Moto X Play, the Droid Turbo 2 is a smartphone that’s showing us its stuff for the very first time today (officially, anyway), and from what ...
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October’s nearly done, but we’ve got a few more big smartphone launches to go before we call the month a wrap. Today it’s Verizon and Motorola’s turn to share their latest handsets with us, and we’ve heard a lot about what to expect. With the launch event now underway, we finally start getting confirmation of these new Droids that have been so thoroughly teased, and we’re getting started by meeting the Droid Turbo 2.The Droid Turbo 2’s shatterproof screen has been featured pretty heavily in Verizon’s recent promos for today’s event, and ...
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