Verizon just officially announced the new Motorola Droid series lineup and from little was revealed they look mildly intriguing. Their presentation was super-quick. It was literally over in 5 minutes. Here's what they shared about the new Droid Mini, the Droid Ultra and the Droid Maxx.
- Droid Mini - focused on compact design = priced at $99 on contract
- Droid Ultra - focused on being ultra-thin (7.18mm) = priced at $199 on contract
- Droid Maxx - focused on superior battery life = priced at $299 on contract
Verizon primarily focused on the software functions of the devices although they shared a few technical tidbits. The phones will use a new Motorola X8 Computing System, which supposedly brings 24% faster CPU performance and 100% faster GPU processing. This architecture includes two primary processing cores, one contextual compute core, and one natural language processing core. The Droid Maxx is 9% thinner than the previous generation Droid RAZR HD MAXX, but still has an 8% better battery life (up to 48 hours).
Here's the new software functions they included:
- Touchless control - make calls, search directions and more all hands free.
- Active Display - lights up a portion of the screen for notifications and messages.
- Quick Capture - launches your camera faster
- Droid Zap - share pictures with your friends with "swipe gestures" (we suspect this is some form of NFC sharing, although they weren't specific).
- Droid Command Center - allows you to access and control Zap and other features.
- Google's new MMO AR game "Ingress" will be exclusively pre-loaded on the Droid series. You can invite up to five friends to join.
Source: Engadget