Verizon may be releasing the HTC One very soon, but Big Red also started allowing customers to buy those Droids you were looking for: the Motorola Droid Ultra and the Droid Maxx are on sale on their website as of Tuesday.
Verizon says that it will ship by Aug. 27, according to UnwiredView, so it may be a little while before the two new Droid devices are actually "released." However, stocks in physical Verizon stores are likely to be coordinated with Verizon Wireless online, so expect the Droids on shelves soon, if not Tuesday.
Online, the Droid Ultra costs $199.99 with the standard contract, and $599.99 untethered to any agreement. The Droid Ultra is a Verizon exclusive, which Motorola unveiled earlier in the summer. The slightly larger and more powerful Droid Maxx is being sold by Verizon for $299.99 with a contract, and $699.99 without.
The Droid Maxx is a 5.0-inch touchscreen phone with 720p resolution, which was announced in late July by Google and Motorola. It runs Android 4.2.2 out of the box and has an incredibly huge (for this size of a phone) 3,500 mAh battery that can be charged wirelessly through the Maxx's Kevlar body. The Motorola X8 system chip has a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, clocked to 1.7GHz, assisted by 2GB of RAM. It's got a 10-megapixel camera capable of taking 1080p HD video at 60 frames per second, along with a 2-megapixel front-facer. The Droid Maxx comes with 32GB of storage, but there's no microSD card slot for expansion.
The Droid Ultra is probably the better deal, as it has runs the same operating system, has the same cameras, a 5-inch 720p display, and the dual-core 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor with 2GB of RAM. You take a hit on storage, as the Ultra only has a 16GB option, and the battery is a lesser 2,140 mAh, but for $100 less on contract, you otherwise have the same phone.
If you're a Verizon customer, are you interested in any of the Droid devices? Or are you just waiting for the HTC One to hit the shelves?
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