Droid turbo in 2016

Motorola Droid Turbo in 2016

Motorola came back in the mobile industry in the fall of 2013 and that too with a bang with its newly anounced moto x series. Although the moto x wasn't the best phone by any standards (looks or specs) it certianly performed the way a flagship should. However motorola even in previous years had joined hands with verizon and released its droid series of smartphones. Such a phone was released in the fall of 2014. The Droid turbo for verizon or the moto max for europe.

The Droid Turbo

the droid turbo came in the same year as the second gen moto x but whereas the moto x came with the motomaker this phone had no such luxury for customization. It did however came in 3 colours and 2 types of materials. One was of a nylon type which came in either black or blue and one came in a kevlar type material which came in either red or black colour. Personally having held both i would much rather prefer the nylon backing over the kevlar.

Getting looks out of the way, lets get into the actual performance of the phone. The droid turbo had the same internal specs as the nexus 6 with the exception of the camera. It had a snapdragon 805 SOC, 3 gigs of ram and a quad hd 1440p Amoled screen. the phone is a beast on paper and in real life too.

With this came a 21 megapixel camera too over the nexus 6's 13 megapixel one. There is great clarity and colours certianly do pop in the pictures taken by the droid turbo but sadly more megapixels does not mean better camera quality. the camera suffers greatly in low light conditions where a ton of noise creeps in and the picture doesn't come out great as one would have expected. In the daylight however its a totally different story. As you can see there is a ton of detail in the pictures and the colours really do pop. Notice the colour of the rust on the steel bar.here is another phoot shot by the droid turbo:

      

Also given that we can work with 21 megapixles, we can crop and zoom on quite a lot before loosing too much detail and that is always a plus point.

So now comes the screen. the Droid Turbo is equipped with a 5.2 inch 1440p Amoled screen. Being of the amoled variety the colours are really saturated and the blacks are deep blacks as it is with these kind of screens. However this may not appeal to every person out there. For me , Amoled screens are better and given that this is a quad hd screen makes it even better.

perhaps the mkst dissapointing thing of the droid turbo is its battery life. Its certianly bulky and not thin by any means and that is due to its large 3900 mah battery. Now one would hope that a battery this size would last them atleast 35-40 hours with moderate usage. but sadly that is not the case. it barely holds its own by the end of the day ( by which i mean 9-10pm ). 

personally having owned the droid turbo i can very safley say that motorola made the right choices in future proofing the phone. I have had no lags or hiccups in the year that i have used it and have more than enjoyed the stock like experience from a verizon exclusive phone!