Motorola Unveils Droid Turbo 2, Claims Shatterproof Display, 48 Hour Battery (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: We've seen leaks and teasers for Motorola's new Droid Turbo 2 Android flagship for weeks. However, the Lenovo-owned company officially announced the smartphone, and it offers two highly sought after features: a long-running battery and a shatterproof display. Its battery has a 3760mAh capacity, allowing the Droid Turbo 2 to operate for up to 48 hours per charge. And if that wasn't enough, Motorola has incorporated Quick Charging support which allows the device to achieve 13 hours of battery life from a mere 15-minute charge. The most talked about feature, however, is its shatterproof display, which Motorola calls Moto ShatterShield. Motorola says that it's "the world's first phone screen guaranteed not to crack or shatter. The display sports a flexible AMOLED panel to absorb shocks, dual touch layers, a rigid aluminum backing, as well as interior and exterior lenses. At the launch event, Motorola was dropping the phone from about 6 feet up, direct to concrete and it was holding up to the abuse just fine.

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Unbreakables

[binarylarry]

Oh we will put your phone to the test, Motorola.

Re:Unbreakables

[Anonymous Coward]

Guaranteed not to crack or shatter... but will it blend?!

Re:Unbreakables

[msauve]

"Oh we will put your phone to the test, Motorola."

Will it blend?

But How Thin?

[Bing Tsher E]

The fasionistas all need to know how thin it is.

Re:But How Thin?

[danbob999]

You forget:

-How "premium" does it looks? I couldn't stand a plastic phone within my rubber case. It must be in metal or glass.
-Does it "feel" cheap?
-Are there stereo (or why not 7.1 surround?) speakers on the front?
-Does it looks new or my friends will think I have a 2013 phone?
-Is there a fruit logo on it?
-Is it overpriced? I wouldn't want my friends to think I couldn't afford an expensive phone.
-How good is the main camera, and I mean the front one? Does it records 4k video good enough to film me waiting in a line for days for my next phone?

Re:But How Thin?

[PeteJanda]

Could care less about aesthetics. I had a ~5 year old Droid RAZR until July 2015, when I lost it. Replaced it with a Droid Turbo and found out I couldn't be on a phone call while simultaneously transmitting data (e.g., WebEx conference calls didn't work). Looked into the issue and discovered: (i) my old RAZR had two antennas that seamlessly allowed voice calls + data and (ii) Turbo has only one antenna that requires me to turn on a software workaround if I want simultaneous voice + data. Icing on the cake is that the workaround leads to poor voice quality and dropped calls. Icing on the icing was that the RAZR's battery life was longer than Turbo's. Couldn't believe the half decade old dinosaur was so superior. Hope the product management people at Lenovo got their heads out of their rear ends on this one.

Shatterproof?

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

A shatterproof screen?

Challenge accepted...am I limited to the caliber of ammunition I can use, or is it unrestricted?

Re:Shatterproof?

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

...next generation body armor.

I could use a vest made entirely of Droid Turbo 2 devices, but would it outperform my vest made of old Nokias? ;)

Re:Shatterproof?

[silentcoder]

>5.56- won a raffle from a coworker whose son's Little League team was having an AR-15 raffle as a fundraiser
This is the most Murica sentence in the history of the world.

Re:Shatterproof?

[Type44Q]

This is the most Murica sentence in the history of the world.

To each his own; I was raised in Asia (by progressive intellectuals, no less; no sports or firearms in our home). I'm vegan and Buddhist (of a sort)... and I think this sounds fucking awesome. On a related note, it's a goddamn tragedy for our species that the Global Elite have managed to render most of the planet unable to protect themselves (rest assured us "Muricans" will be next) but if while in the process of being enslaved - financially and otherwise - you've got to drink the Koolaid, I suppose you might as well enjoy the taste.

Re:Shatterproof?

[Coren22]

Weapons do nothing of the sort. A gun sitting on a table doesn't suddenly go off killing everyone in the room. Just as swords don't dismember, guns don't kill. There has to be a person in the situation doing the action, or the "weapon" is just an inert piece of metal.

Re:Shatterproof?

[KGIII]

I own several AR-15s in varied configurations. They've not even killed a nommy animal. They've killed some paper, so there's that. I don't even use them for self-defense purposes - they're just fun to shoot and really good at killing paper. If you've never spent a day mercilessly slaughtering innocent paper then you're missing out on a whole lot of fun. It's actually pretty intellectual, or it can be. It's fun to see just how far you can push the envelope and the AR-15 community means building out a special purpose firearm an enjoyable task.

Re:Shatterproof?

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

Wasn't the point of old Nokias that they exploded on the slightest impact? It was kind of like reactive armor on tanks...

I don't think so...the last time someone dropped a Nokia from any real height, all the dinosaurs died.

One big big big downside

[PPalmgren]

Appears ts a Verizon only phone. You'd have to kidnap my family and hold them for ransom to get me to go back to Verizon. Motorola makes good phones, but I'll stick with the Moto X for my carrier freedom.

Re:One big big big downside

[JustAnotherOldGuy]

PLEASE, please don't kidnap my ex-wife who lives alone at 224 Krasten Lane NW in Milwaukee WI, 3rd floor apartment 11!

Re:One big big big downside

[rickb928]

0. If you actually travel most everywhere in the U.S., nationwide coverage is a thing. If not, you'll lok at maps and rule out the two carriers that don't do a good job where you will actually be.

1. Some carriers are a lot more honest and forthcoming than others. Some about some things, others about others.

2. Everyone has anecdotal evidence of how their carrier is the worst. Useless. Ask the crowd, and sooner or later you will find some are truly devious, while others are merely self-centered. They all intend to make a profit. Those that make it by misleading you deserve to be scorned.

I've been using T-Mobile for 10+ years now, and coverage was always sufficient with the exception of my vacation spot, where it was pus. This year they finally installed LTE speed (goodbye GPRS!), but only on Band 2 (1900), which my M8 doesn't, despite specs claiming this, something to do with HSPA v LTE.

So, my anecdotal complaint added to a pile of smoking ruins.

Dear Motorola....

[Lumpy]

No thanks. You fooled me twice Motorola, and HTC fooled me once. A google NEXUS phone is the only android I will ever own from now on.

Re:Dear Motorola....

[ChunderDownunder]

Lenovo - the same company that installed malware on its laptops now makes phones under the Motorola brand.

Why would anyone trust that?

"Guaranteed" not to crack and shatter?

[GuB-42]

Does it mean that if it shatters for any reason, I get my money back, or, at least a free repair?
For me that would be a reasonable assumption. However we've seen many waterproof phones where water damage wasn't covered by the warranty.

What I nowadays always want to know first:

[blind biker]

is the battery user-replaceable? How many screws do I have to remove? How many flat cables detach? The answers I want to hear are: yes, 0, 0. Acceptable answers are: kind of, 6, 0.

Only one real defect

[rickb928]

Verizon.

Fuck you Motorola

[LichtSpektren]

Why the hell would I buy--or suggest to any friends, family, co-workers, or anybody that I'm not intentionally trying to hurt--anything from Motorola ever again, after you decided that giving security patches to a phone you released THIS YEAR is not worth it?

Great, now

[ThatsNotPudding]

Now make it phone-sized, instead of the current run of gargantuan semi-tablets.

Re:Nice it won't break or crack.

[canajin56]

But you can have one of each. In this case, the OLED display is covered in two layers. One is like you say, easily scratched, but not easily shattered. This is covered by the "shatterproof" warranty. The outer layer is glass (or at least something hard, clear, and scratch resistant?) and it's not covered. This isn't as shitty as it sounds, because the top layer is user replaceable. If you drop your phone and the top cover shatters, you do not need to take it to a repair shop. You can buy a replacement cover and swap it out yourself.