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    Verizon Razr Maxx, With 21 Hours of Go Time, Now Available

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    Michelle Maisto
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    January 26, 2012
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      The Droid Razr Maxx is now available on the Verizon Wireless network for $300. Motorola’s answer to the “but” that followed otherwise positive reviews of its still relatively new Droid Razr, the Razr Maxx is said to feature a battery life of up to 21 hours on a single charge, making it the longest-lasting smartphone on the market.

      All those positive reviews should work in the Razr Maxx’s favor, as it’s equipped with all the same features as the Droid Razr, though in not as slim a form factor-but still notably thinner than competitors such as the Apple iPhone 4S. Given the ruler treatment, the Droid Razr comes in at 7.1mm thin, while the Razr Maxx measures 8.99mm and the iPhone 4S 9.3mm.

      Further filling out its resume are its dual-core, 1.2GHz processor and compatibility with Verizon’s super-quick 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network.

      The Razr Maxx runs Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, but is upgradable to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It features a 4.3-inch AMOLED HD touch screen, an 8-megaixel rear-facing camera with 1080p HD video capture, and a front-facing camera for video chatting over 4G, 3G or WiFi. It can enable up to eight WiFi-enabled devices to hop on Verizon’s 4G network, comes with 32GB of memory and-asking to be taken to work-features remote-wipe capabilities and government-grade encryption.

      To view a slide show including the Motorola Razr Maxx, click here.

      Knowing what the Razr Maxx is up against, Motorola created “Smart Actions” as a sort of next best thing to Apple’s Siri. With the former, the phone can be made helpful in certain rules-based ways, such as launching Google Maps when the user is in the car.

      Customers who purchase the Razr Maxx will need to subscribe to Verizon’s Nationwide Talk plan, which begins at $40 a month, and purchase a smartphone data package, which starts at $30 a month.

      “We are a premium-priced product, but we will win in the marketplace. …. There are niches of people that want to be on the best network in the world,” Verizon CFO Fran Shammo told analysts during a Jan. 24 call on the carrier’s 2011 fourth-quarter results.

      Despite pulling in $28.4 billion in revenue and selling more than twice the number of iPhones than it did the quarter before-4.2 million Apple handsets, up from 2 million-Verizon finished at a loss of $2.02 billion. The two main contributors to its fall to red were pension costs, which it had warned investors of in advance, and the high cost of supporting the iPhone.

      Verizon’s incremental spending during the quarter was up 6.3 percent, Shammo said, due to a combination of “3G capacity requirements, driven by the Apple iPhone, and the continued rapid expansion of our 4G LTE network.”

      The price Apple charges the carriers for each iPhone also forces them to pay a higher subsidy than with any other handset, in order to offer the iPhone to consumers at a price competitive with their other handsets. But as the iPhone is a device users switch carriers for, and iPhone users are said to be the most lucrative customers over the long term, Verizon and its competitors find the iPhone’s initial right hook worth suffering.

      Michelle Maisto
      Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and in her spare time obsesses about food. Her first book, The Gastronomy of Marriage, if forthcoming from Random House in September 2009.
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