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Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX confirmed for 26th January release
For those who might not have been satisfied with the Motorola Droid RAZR’s battery life, the good news is that your salvation is here in the form of the Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX. The device previously rumored for a 26th of January 2012 has been confirmed in a press release by Verizon themselves, so if you’re looking to start 2012 with a new smartphone sporting a massive battery, the Droid RAZR MAXX could be the answer to your battery woes.
Apart from its slight increase in body thickness to accommodate the new 3,300mAh battery, its internals will remain more or less the same as the Droid RAZR. What this means is that customers will be able to expect a 4.3” Super AMOLED display, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM under the hood, 16GB of internal storage, a 16GB microSD card preinstalled, 4G LTE connectivity and will run on Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread.
The Motorola Droid RAZR MAXX is expected to retail for $299 on a new two-year contract with Verizon, but if that’s a bit too pricey for your tastes and battery life isn’t that big of a deal to you, you will be interested to hear that the original Droid RAZR has seen its price slashed to $199 but will be missing a microSD card, which isn’t really that big of a deal to be honest.
The Fairphone 2 was first unveiled in June earlier this year, where this particular handset carried a modular design while featuring majority of its components that have been sourced from conflict-free mines. It seems that this particular handset that you can purchase with a clear conscience has begun to ship to those who happen to live across Europe.
Fairphone announced in a blog post, “It’s been almost two years in the making, and some of the earliest buyers have been patiently waiting since July to receive their new phones. As community manager, I want to personally welcome the new batch of Fairphone owners to our community.” The initial 1,000 units are tipped to ship this month, before the other pre-orders follow in January 2016.
In terms of hardware specifications, the Fairphone 2 will run on a Snapdragon 801 chipset, has a 5″ 1080p screen with Gorilla Glass 3 protection, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP camera, with Android 5.1 Lollipop in tow. It will be a dual SIM capable handset with a microSD memory card slot and plays nice with 4G LTE networks, retailing for approximately €525 a pop.
It looks like the upcoming flagship model from Xiaomi will feature NFC support, at least based on a document that was released by China UnionPay. Just in case you are scratching your head and wondering who China UnionPay is, they happen to be the only domestic payment gateway supplier and card organization, and hence, to see them offer detailed support concerning the newly released NFC-based payment system points to the very real possibility of the upcoming Xiaomi Mi 5 featuring NFC capability.
After all, the Xiaomi Mi 3 was also mentioned on the list, which so happens to feature NFC, and there is no mention of the Xiaomi Mi 4 which does not come with NFC. Still, such a new payment system would be the ideal tool to see the reintroduction of NFC to the flagship model.
OnePlus did make an announcement in the previous month that the Ceramic variant of the OnePlus X will be released on November 24. True to their word, they did exactly that – although only a pitiful number of units were made available, and not only that, this was through a charity auction. Thankfully for the rest of the masses who are on the lookout for this device, it has gone on sale officially already.
Needless to say, this particular variant is available only by an invitation, although do bear in mind that standard OnePlus X invites are not good here – you will still need to snag yourself a specific Ceramic variant invite before you make a purchase. OnePlus is also on the lookout to offer additional methods of picking up this smartphone, although no further details were revealed.
The OnePlus X Ceramic will be available only in select markets, where among them include Europe, India, and Hong Kong. To date, we do know that OnePlus had made only 10,000 units of the handset available. A case of the early bird getting the proverbial worm here?