Motorola has announced a new phone in the US market, which is named as Droid Turbo 2. The highlight of the phone is its display, which as per Motorola, is shatterproof. Motorola even claims that the display, which is branded as ShatterShield, won’t crack or shatter for up to four years. The handset also comes with water repelling nano-coating.
The Motorola Droid Turbo 2 has a 5.4 inch AMOLED Display that offers superb Quad HD (2560×1440 pixels) resolution. The 169 grams heavy smartphone has a 3760 mAh battery that claims to offer two days of back up. The Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system based Motorola Droid Turbo 2 has the 2.0 Ghz Snapdragon 810 processor that runs the phone with 3 GB LPDDR4 RAM.
The Turbo 2 comes in 32 GB and 64 GB storage variants – both of which also offer expandable storage of up to 2 TB. It comes with a 21 Megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, phase detect auto focus, dual LED light support, 4X digital zoom, burst mode, auto HDR, panorama, video stabilization, 4K video recording ability, video HDR and slow motion video recording feature.
For selfies, the Motorola Droid Turbo 2 offers a 5 megapixel camera with f/2.0 aperture, wide angle lens, night mode, 1.4um pixel for better low light pictures and even an LED flash light. Ofcourse it offers 4G, NFC, WiFi (ac), Bluetooth 4.1 LE and GPS.
The Motorola Droid Turbo 2 is hitting the US markets from this October 29 itself. Though as of now there is no information about its launch in the Indian market, Motorola is expected to launch it here soon. Currently the predecessor of Droid Turbo 2, the Motorola Droid Turbo is available in India as Moto Turbo in 64 GB version for Rs 41,999.
Meanwhile, Motorola has also announced the launch of Droid Maxx 2 in the US which is actually a re-branded version of Moto X Play that is available in India for Rs 19,999 for the 32 GB model and 18,499 for the 16 GB model.
The Droid Maxx 2 thus has the same design as well as features as the Moto X Play including a 5.5-inch 1080p touchscreen, 21 megapixel rear camera, a 5 megapixel selfie unit, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 octa core processor, 2GB RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, a 3,630 mAh battery and the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop operating system.