Lots of hate here for Moto. After the great experience I had with my D1 Id buy another Motorola but I really like ICS, and getting my first Gnex replaced with another one, I'm finally happy.
As far as battery goes, Im usually able to charge when I need to, and my biggest drain is usually usage in the car with nav of streaming music, so i just plug it in.
I wish the Gnex had the same sort of support for accessories as moto phones, thats the only thing I am disappointed in the with Gnex
I'm hoping if moto can make a 3300 battery this thin, Samsung will make a thinner battery for the g-nex down the road. I'm still vary happy with the 2100 battery right now but I could always use more time.
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I'm hoping if moto can make a 3300 battery this thin, Samsung will make a thinner battery for the g-nex down the road. I'm still vary happy with the 2100 battery right now but I could always use more time.
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I believe it's the same technology the IPhone uses.
Sadly the reason the battery can be so big in the Razr Maxx while remaining thin is because of their non-removable back plate design. If you check out one of the videos that shows it being disassembled you'll see the battery is nearly the size of the entire phone's footprint and I assume this is achieved by removing the traditional battery 'socket' that we see on a phone like the Nexus.
We may be looking at more manufacturers moving to the non-removable back plates to achieve these larger stock batteries if the Maxx becomes popular. I'm not sure if Motorola holds the patent on this thin battery tech, it looks very odd if you check out one of the videos showing it. It's almost as if the battery is flexible, but that may just be because it's so thin.
Razr's battery vs Nexus battery:
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Your assumptions are correct. The battery is flexible since it's a package of sandwiched layers with polymer as a key component. The "case" is actually the phone and the Kevlar back. By doing away with the traditional hard batteries and plastic case with contacts and instead utilizing the phone's case and chassis as the external protection for the soft battery internals allows the battery to essentially become an integral part of the phone.
This concept was highlighted in a Popular Science magazine of mine a number of years ago and the underlying reason was form factor. Manufacturers would typically design. The product at least partly around the battery so it limited things such as thickness. By designing the battery around the product. It allows the manufacturer to focus on other more desirable characteristics such as thickness. This RAZR is a groundbreaking design that takes full advantage of that aspect. Since the introduction of an electrically conducting polymer this concept has become a reality. Future batteries can actually wrap around the internal chassis or even be the actual physical case.
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Moto deserves it. I say this as a Droid 1 owner.Lots of hate here for Moto.
The droid 1 was not a typical Moto product. It was not polluted with their motoblur UI. It wasnt locked down like all their other products (moto had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do that...they did not want to leave it open and bloat free. It was some kind of deal they made with Google). And it actually had great hardware for it's generation. The display was better than anything else at the time.After the great experience I had with my D1 Id buy another Motorola
