The Droid Turbo is a

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developed by

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. It is part of the

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line, and was announced on October 28, 2014 on the

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Droid Does website. The Droid Turbo maintains a similar design shape to its predecessor, the

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, with new durable

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or metallized glass fiber reinforced with

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as the materials offered. The on-screen buttons for back, home, and multitask functions were kept off-screen as capacitive soft-keys below the display.

Specifications

Hardware

The Droid Turbo came with a

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quad-core processor clocked at 2.7 GHz, an Adreno 420 GPU,

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for the phone's contextual features, and was backed by a 3,900 mAh battery. The Droid Turbo also has a 5.2-inch

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display with a 565 pixels per inch

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at a 1440×2560 resolution.

Software

The Droid Turbo shipped with

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4.4.4 KitKat. The Turbo also came with Motorola's Moto app, which includes features such as Moto Voice, Moto Display, Moto Actions, and Moto Assist. The device's operating system's first upgrade was to

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, Android 5. Its last official upgrade was to Android Marshmallow, Android 6.0.1 and Motorola has confirmed that they have officially dropped support for the device and that the Droid Turbo would not receive the

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update.

Storage

The Droid Turbo features 32 GB of internal flash memory with the Kevlar version and 32 or 64 GB of internal flash memory with Ballistic nylon version and does not provide expandable memory via a

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card slot.

International version

An international (

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) version was announced in early November 2014, to be branded as "Moto Maxx", initially available only in

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and

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and released in

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by early 2015. Motorola has released the smartphone in

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by the name of the Moto Turbo earlier in 2015.

References

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