Hey guys, my contract expires in a month and I am looking at a couple of new phones to buy. I currently own a Droid Incredible, and I absolutely love it. The only thing that I don't like about it is that it has poor battery life, and it's kind of slow. Things that I do like about it are that I have a plethora of roms to choose from and it has great development support. Some phones that I am looking to buy are the Droid Razr Maxx HD, Samsung Galaxy S3, and the Google Nexus. Can you tell me about the pros and cons of the Maxx HD? Is the battery life really that good? I appreciate any help!
How great is this phone?
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Droid Razr Maxx HD
Pro-Battery life, decent screen,battery life, S4 cpu, battery life, doesn't have an overly cluttered skin, battery life
Cons-1gb of RAM (not horrible but not that great for a device this new. 2gb is quickly becoming the standard)
Pro-Battery life, decent screen,battery life, S4 cpu, battery life, doesn't have an overly cluttered skin, battery life
Cons-1gb of RAM (not horrible but not that great for a device this new. 2gb is quickly becoming the standard)
How great is the battery life exactly? I'm jot worried about 1gb ram. My current phone has that and its fine.
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This is how good the battery life is. The phone is in another class in this area. Best phone on verizon lineup; in my book.
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oh my....holy.....that's insane!!! thanks! i appreciate it! how's the rooting process for this phone? are there many roms/kernels available for this phone?
Almost non-existant. The phone is amazing, but it has less Dev support than almost any phone I have owned. However, the stock JB ROM is quite good.
Agreed. The development for the Razr HDs, like most of Moto's recent phones, is practically non-existent. Battery life outstrips every other phone on the market though.
I got spoiled on my Rezound and EVO 4G LTE... plenty of solid ROMs to pick from. But so far no real love for the Razr HD. Oh well, still love the phone though!
I know what you mean. I'm coming from a popular HTC phone where there are like 127 pages of roms to choose from. I think that is the only downside to this phone.
I upgraded to the RAZR MAXX HD from the original Droid Incredible just before Thanksgiving. Was waiting for the next great HTC phone but the DNA with 16g non-expandable storage (11g usable) and the small size battery was a big disappointment. I never gave a second thought to Motorola phones before, frankly because all the early ones were ugly.
But I couldn't be happier with the RM HD. Nice looking phone, battery life is incredible, beautiful screen, great signal strength on both voice and data, sound quality (streaming bluetooth) is excellent. Great build quality. The UI is pretty much stock android and very nice. I though I would miss Sense but not at all. And to me it's the perfect size, although a tad on the heavy side. New phones like the Note 2 and DNA are just too big in my opinion. 2g of ram would have been nice but other than that I can't think of anything this phone is lacking. Many reviews say the camera is inferior but it's fine for my needs. Coming from the Incredible, this camera was an improvement.
I played around with the S3 but it just seemed like the build quality of the MAXX was far better and from what I've read it has signal strength issues with the radios. IMO the Maxx HD is the best android phone on the market right now.
But I couldn't be happier with the RM HD. Nice looking phone, battery life is incredible, beautiful screen, great signal strength on both voice and data, sound quality (streaming bluetooth) is excellent. Great build quality. The UI is pretty much stock android and very nice. I though I would miss Sense but not at all. And to me it's the perfect size, although a tad on the heavy side. New phones like the Note 2 and DNA are just too big in my opinion. 2g of ram would have been nice but other than that I can't think of anything this phone is lacking. Many reviews say the camera is inferior but it's fine for my needs. Coming from the Incredible, this camera was an improvement.
I played around with the S3 but it just seemed like the build quality of the MAXX was far better and from what I've read it has signal strength issues with the radios. IMO the Maxx HD is the best android phone on the market right now.
Haha so you're just like me. The only thing that afraid of with the maxx is the lack of roms. I would greatly miss that.
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Can't help you there. Never rooted...completely stock on both phones.Well thank you everyone for your input. I really appreciate all your help!
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I also just got the razr maxx hd. So far I've been off the charger for 25 hours with 3 hours 6 minutes of on screen time and I still have 51 percent battery left. This phone is amazing.
I just wish we could root. I'm coming from a Galaxy Nexus so yeah... I miss CM. But I'll take signal and battery reliability over flashing ROM's any day. That phone had massive signal and battery problems.
woohoo
Just got my Droid Razr HD yesterday I had the Razr Maxx and decided to sell it and upgrade to the HD thought about the HD Maxx but thought if the battery can last all day on this it would be fine and well further more I stand to make more money in my pocket in the end! So far from turning on I made it down to 47% battery with the normal use of my Maxx I beleive this phone has as good a battery life as the original Maxx the only question is will they make a battery replacement for this one to give it a Maxx battery later on! Also That is From 1:00 P.M. yesterday till 8:30 A.M. this mornning 3hrs screen on time and everything else on!!!
Looking at the above post for his Maxx My battery Is lasting just as long as the Maxx 22 Hours on 3 Hours Screen on 47%!!! WooHoo!!!
Just got my Droid Razr HD yesterday I had the Razr Maxx and decided to sell it and upgrade to the HD thought about the HD Maxx but thought if the battery can last all day on this it would be fine and well further more I stand to make more money in my pocket in the end! So far from turning on I made it down to 47% battery with the normal use of my Maxx I beleive this phone has as good a battery life as the original Maxx the only question is will they make a battery replacement for this one to give it a Maxx battery later on! Also That is From 1:00 P.M. yesterday till 8:30 A.M. this mornning 3hrs screen on time and everything else on!!!
Looking at the above post for his Maxx My battery Is lasting just as long as the Maxx 22 Hours on 3 Hours Screen on 47%!!! WooHoo!!!
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Why is it so difficult to get roms on this phone? Is the bootloader locked?
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You can root. And install safestrap and custom roms, even on the locked verizon version
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yeah, but there aren't too many roms. is flashing/compiling a pain for this phone?
I didn't know that. All I would really want is root privileges in the stock ROM to run wifi tether, that's pretty much it.
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