Motorola's Droid Razr Maxx handset will go on sale on the Verizon network on January 26.
The device, which is essentially the Droid Razr with a much larger battery and another fashionably-incorrect piece of spelling added to the end, will cost $299 on a two-year contract.
That's an extra $100 premium for some Maxx action.
The battery, however, is exceptionally large without adding to the svelte 8.9mm-thick body. The 3300mAh cell is almost double the size of the 1780mAh pack contained within the original.
No Android 4.0 yet
Aside from that, the device keeps the same super-slim dimensions, 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display, 1.2GHz dual-core processor as well 16GB of internal storage and a 16GB microSD card pre-installed
In terms of the snapper, there's an 8-megapixel sensor that's also capable of shooting video at 1080p, while a HD front-facing camera adorns the front of the device.
Naturally, there's 4G connectivity on-board, hence the need for the much larger battery.
Unfortunately the device won't come loaded with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but an upgrade is in the works.
Via: CNET
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bradavon
January 24th
2. That's impressive it's not any bigger. About bloody time frankly. We've been given weak batteries for to long.
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simon_m
January 24th
1. This is great news - finally manufacturers can start competing on battery size. Bring it on - 4-5inch devices with 3000mAh+ batteries are sorely needed - far more than ever-slimmer ones. These companies can finally use their enormous R&D and design budgets to really focus on the engineering problem of fitting larger batteries in phones, while the programmers and parts manufacturers work on lower consumption and the chemists try to come up with better battery technologies.
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