does it seem like every phone manufacturer has a wicked case of
electronic anorexia we get these hyper thin phones that seem content to spend
all day measuring themselves on a scale and admiring themselves in the mirror
and maybe some people find that sexy but you know what I see insecurity weakness
and a lack of stamina none of which makes for a good night in the sorry what
were we talking about uh right back on track um part two of our triple curved
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curvy is beautiful and on that note the
Droid Turbo can turbo my Droid all night long if you know what I
mean I I mean it's thicker than most
flagship mobile devices cuz it's got you know a
big internal battery so at night time
the phone is still running that's what I meant by the all night long I mean what
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more so we'll kick things off with specs picture in your mind's eye what the
ballist smartphone specs might be for a
moment basically that a top-of-the line Snapdragon 805 adreno 420 GPU 3 gigs of
RAM a 5.2in AMOLED Quad HD display covered in Gorilla Glass 3 32 or 64 gigs
of internal storage Wireless charging AC Wireless internal and exterior Nano
coating for Splash resistance and a 3900 mAh battery I'm sorry lonus what did you
just say this thing has just about enough battery capacity to power itself
and act as a battery bank for my buddy's iPhone yeah yeah I did but calm yourself
down I'll talk more about it later let's do the quick physical overview first at
the back we find the 21 megapix still camera that also records Ultra HD at 24
FPS with its super bright dual flashes a motor a logo and one of the most
satisfying material choices that I've ever encountered on a phone I mean
gorilla glass aluminum unibody blah blah blah blah blah the Droid Turbo's
ballistic nylon doesn't do as much as I expected to improve grippiness but it's
something different it looks and feels amazing in the hand and I was even able
to clean the pasta sauce that my 2-year-old spilled on it without too
much effort seriously I could have killed him though anyway on the left we
got nothing on the bottom micro USB and on the right the well-positioned but
slightly mushy lock button and volume rocker that doubles as a nano SIM tray
and then finally on the top a 3 and 12 mm Jack I actually prefer this position
makes it a little easier to sort of pull the phone out of your pocket and look at something without getting it caught on
stuff which leads us around to the front the mono speaker does face forward and
it's loud enough but sound quality is very unexceptional fortunately the
screen is a different story now I criticized LG's choice of a Quad HD
display in the G3 because I don't think the minuscule Improvement in display
sharpness was worth the lackluster contrast in that case and I still don't
think a 2560 x440 display is necessary on a smartphone but the AMOLED display
that Motorola opted for enables that cool notification system where only the
necessary pixels are illuminated for previews and gives the Droid Turbo
display rocking contrast that makes it look great even outside it's not perfect
I wish that minimum brightness was actually lower for nighttime viewing
there's more motion blur than I'd like when scrolling and there's a noticeably
cool color shift when you look at it off axis but after the first couple of days
I pretty much stopped noticing most of those things something I didn't stop
noticing was the fact that this is the first Android phone that I've used in
over a year with dedicated capacitive buttons I don't generally have a
preference either way but I did find that with this phone holding it in
landscape mode was a little tricky without ing those buttons so just watch
out for that if you're picking one up so let's get into actually using it first
the big question isn't it heavy line is with that massive battery in it and the
answer is no the curvature of the back feels very natural in my hand and the
weight gives it a satisfying premium feel without making it feel brick like
okay then line of second question do you actually get 48 hours out of it like
Motorola claims cuz that'd be sick dog and the answer here is also no and I'll
throw in a d be ridiculous for good measure I usually ended up with 35 to
40% left at the end of the day and power users will still be able to drain their
battery in a single day by doing things like playing games or navigating with
GPS I'm even sitting here writing this at the end of a workday I'll be at a
fairly long workday with a mere 25% left
which is obviously not enough to make it through another day tomorrow but while
2day battery was a silly claim for Motorola to make the extra capacity of
the droid turbo has changed the way that I use my phone for a single day and
switching back to something with a more normal battery size will be extremely
difficult I did alter the default twom minute backlight time out to 1 minute
that was just showing off but I was able to keep all my features on Crank Dat
brightness browse whenever I was bored and I didn't even bother carrying a
battery Bank while I was using it between the chi Wireless stock in my car
and motorol is included 12volt fast charger that can store this much battery
in this much time here's a graph I didn't add it to my script in a pinch
even though I'm still plugging into a 1 amp charger every night to preserve the
lifetime of my battery I felt liberated
somehow because I'm not thinking about my battery all the time onto software
there's not much to say it's Motorola's skin so you get pretty much bone stock
Android apparently there's a lollipop upgrade coming very soon which is good
because art run time is on KitKat on this phone and then it's got a couple of
moto tweaks including their wave to preview your notifications their slide
to unlock there's somewhat useless voice control that I found routed voice
commands through Google Now more often than not which is fine I guess and there
you go it's Moto skin one thing I noticed although it's not directly
related to software was that whichever keyboard I was using stock Android or
swift key I am bloody accurate on the Droid Turbo the bottom is a little
pointy resting on my pinkies but the chin bar size is pretty much perfect to
me and I can fly on this thing which leads us to the most negative part of
this review the camera is wicked fast to
open with one of the most reliable gesture launch mechanisms I have ever
seen and it takes fantastic 20 plus
megapixel Stills like this one of my cat Rumble with Gorgeous shallow depth of
field but the problem is in the word stills moving subjects whether you're
trying to capture a photo with the extremely slow shutter
or a video with the nonoptical stabilized jittery feeling motion that
doesn't seem to be avoidable just don't work that well for this phone I tried a
couple alternate camera apps and neither of them helped so all I can do at this
point is hope that Motorola fixes this with the lollipop update or shortly
thereafter because otherwise it's going to be a serious Mark against this phone
for a lot of people which leads us to the conclusion for this video it amazes
me that I even have to applaud the technological innovation of put a bigger
freaking battery in it but that's what I'm going to do I don't want a lighter
phone my fingers aren't made of you know limp spaghetti I want one that works
better and for longer and that's what the Droid Turbo does and is why in spite
of its camera it's earned its place as my new daily driver until further notice
this is a great phone and my only other big complaint is availability it's
Verizon exclusive in the US right now and while the Verizon apps and
occasional hey your sim isn't Verizon message are easy to ignore you just
plain can't buy one in the US without a Verizon contract right now which is
going to hurt thirdparty motor support if you're into rooting your phones and
installing custom roms and whatnot although this may be less of an issue
outside of the US where there's a Max skew that you know may be possible to
purchase depending on the region so I think that's pretty much it guys thank
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