**Motorola Droid Turbo Review**

The Motorola Droid Turbo is a high-end smartphone that boasts impressive features and performance. The device starts recording our video, allowing us to tap the screen to take a photograph, pause it, and resume it as needed. We can also zoom in by swiping up, which replaces the traditional pinch-to-zoom functionality with a more intuitive swipe gesture. Additionally, we can switch between the front-facing and rear-facing camera, giving us control over our shots.

One drawback of using this phone is that if you leave the camera app, it defaults back to 1080p resolution, requiring us to select 4K every time we want to record in high definition. Another issue arises when swiping in from the left edge of the screen, bringing up Google Now, which can be a bit of a nuisance for those who prefer a more streamlined interface.

**Camera Capabilities**

The camera on the Droid Turbo is impressive, with a 21-megapixel sensor on the back that delivers sharp images with good color reproduction and accurate exposure. However, in low-light conditions, it struggles to find focus, requiring us to spend time refocusing the scene to get the right image. Despite this, the dual flash system on either side of the camera does an excellent job of producing well-lit shots without harsh shadows.

In terms of video recording, the phone delivers smooth footage with good exposure and accurate colors. However, without Optical Image Stabilization (OIS), 4K video is quite rough-looking, making it difficult to get really smooth footage. Adding OIS would make a significant difference in this regard.

**Display**

The device boasts an impressive QHD display, which looks fantastic thanks to Super AMOLED technology. The screen features dark blacks and vivid colors, with pin-sharp text that's easy on the eyes. However, we note that the whites tend to be slightly warm, a common issue with many OLED displays.

**Speaker System**

The speaker system is another area where the Droid Turbo shines. With only one of the two speaker grills acting as the loudspeaker, located on the left side, sound distribution can become uneven at times. However, when using the earpiece, which covers the entire width of the device, we find that sound is evenly distributed and clear.

**Performance**

The Droid Turbo's performance is impressive, thanks to its 2.6 GHz processor (same as the Snapdragon 600) and 3 GB of RAM (compared to the Moto X's 2 GB). The quad-core processor provides a significant boost in performance compared to the dual-core chip used in the Moto X. Additionally, the phone runs stock Android with a few tweaks, providing a smooth and lag-free experience.

**Battery Life**

Motorola promises that the Droid Turbo will last up to 48 hours on a single charge, and we can confirm this. The device's large battery provides ample power to keep us going throughout the day, making it an excellent choice for those who need their phone to last long.

**Durability**

Finally, the Droid Turbo is built with durability in mind, featuring a Kevlar back panel (or ballistic nyline) that provides added protection against scratches and drops. This makes the device more ruggedized than its metal and leather or wood-finished counterparts, making it an excellent choice for those who plan to use their phone in harsh environments.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with a look at the Motorola Droid Turbo which is launching for Verizon with some really impressive specs now one of them is a 5.2 in Super AMOLED display with QHD resolution which is 1440 x 2560 that's good for 565 pixels per inch this is powered by a Snapdragon 805 clock at 2.7 GHz with 3 gigs of RAM we also have a 21 megapixel rear-facing camera good for 4K video recording although there is no Optical image stabilization we also have a 2 megapixel front-facing camera good for 1080p video now the other big story here is a massive 3900 Mah hour battery which is non- removable now they estimated about 48 Hours of battery life out of this but we're going to have to test that in this video now there are two different types of materials for the back panel you can get the metallized glass fiber which is reinforced with Kevlar that comes in black or red and is available only in a 32 gig capacity but you can also get the ballistic nylon version which is available in a 64 gig capacity in addition the 32 gig it's only available in Black personally I think I prefer this because it gives you a lot more texture on the back panel to grip the phone but in either case both materials are designed for durability all right so let's go ahead and open up our packaging here so we have our sleeve and then we have this little clamshell box to open up and inside is our Motorola Droid and there I am in the reflection so let's go ahead and lift this up here if we flip it over you can see I have the Metalized glass fiber Edition which is black and 32 gig capacity only all right so let's go ahead and peel off our screen protector all right so let's set that aside for just a moment while we take a look at what we get in the Box here so I'm going to pull off this tray inside we have our paperwork so let's go and pop this open so again this is a Verizon phone so we have some Verizon paperwork here get to know your phone so maybe a quick start guide and some of the surfaces Verizon offers Global support information and calling card and different languages important consumer information and product and safety and warranty information so nothing terribly interesting here now we do have some interesting accessories in here including Motorola's turbocharger which is a rapid charger especially for such a large battery it's kind of nice to have one of these rapid Chargers this is included at no extra cost this is actually sold as a $30 accessory from Motorola but what this does is with 15 minutes of charge this will provide 8 hours of batter life to your phone so we just have a little plastic on the front hiding that nice glossy panel with the Motorola dimple right there now on the back we'll find all of our specs and toward the bottom we'll find our USB port for charging and of course we have our standard micro USB charging cable that works with that turbocharger all right so let's get back to the Motorola Droid Turbo first thing I want to do here is boot it up so we can take a look around now there is a new boot animation as you know the Droid series was famous for that Droid eye and that Droid sound but it's different this time so at the top you'll see that very large earpiece SL loudspeaker it's all in one and you can see there's these little notches at either side we also have our front-facing camera which is good for 2 megapixels and 1080p HD video and then you have all your light sensors proximity sensors and that sort of thing next to it now if you look at the edge of the glass you can see that it is rounded kind of similar to the Moto X and Nexus 6 now down below you'll find your backlit capacitive Android Keys as well as these dual microphones at the edge of the glass now just like the Moto X this device uses infrared to map the front of the display so it can see the presence of your face or your hand so when you wave your hand in front of it you can interact with it so you can actually see the infrared blasters in each corner of the glass display they're invisible to the naked eye but the camera can pick them up now on the back we'll find our motor roller badge which is not a dimple like you get with some other motor roller products and then you have your 21 megap rear-facing camera with a little pinhole microphone right next to it and dual LEDs on either side down below we'll find yet more microphones again I set the Dual microphones along with our Verizon and Droid branding as well as this little bump out here for the micro USB port on the bottom now if you look toward the bottom you can see the phone kind of tapers to a point and the glass sort of rolls into it kind of a nice detail but it does extend the length of the phone now on the right side we'll find our textured volume and power on and off Keys which are very tactile now that volume button is actually High in the SIM tray which you can pop off pretty easily now if you look at the back of the volume button there's a little thumbnail Port here for sticking your fingernail in here so you can grab it and pull it out and again this is a nano in comes completely out and you can put it back in when you're done changing it if you need to now the only thing you'll find on the top is the headphone jack and then you can see that curve to the phone on the back now once again there is no need for an LED notification light and that's because the entire display is the notification center so you can see when you twist or handle the device at all it wakes up and shows you your recent notifications as well as the time so instead of having to hit a button to unlock your device you can just tap the screen or move the screen around tap and swipe down to unlock it takes you to your home screen now if you have pending notifications you can see those badges on the screen if you tap and hold on them you'll get a preview at the top of the screen of that notification and if you want to jump to that app all I have to do is swipe up and activate that app takes you right to it now you can see up to three of these notification badges on the lock screen if you have more than that you can press the more icon and that will show you the other notifications and when you unlock into those notifications it basically just takes you to the drop down notification shade now alternatively just like in the Moto X you can just wave your hand over the display to wake it up as well all right so let's go and take a look at the user interface again we have our camera app which we can swipe to activate by swiping to the left alternatively you also have another gesture here which is unique to the Moto Series so I have to do is twist your device like this launch us right into the camera app which is very handy now once again we're running Android 4.4.4 in fact we can confirm this by going to settings going about this device at the bottom and we can see that right here Android version 4.4.4 Kit Kat but of course we're going to get lollipop in here by the end of the year which is very nice now the experience here is actually pretty close to stock although it is more skin than the Moto X experience so you can see we have our drop down notification shape which is pretty similar to stock you can expand your notifications you can clear them all by hitting that X you can go up here for your quick setting toggles you can see your battery status right here you can swipe between your available homepages you can tap and hold on the homepage to get to your editor so you can change your wallpapers you can see all the available wallpapers here you can also tap and hold here to get to your widgets so you can see all the available widgets here again very similar to stock Android you can also reposition your homepages like so so if you want to change which one is the primary homepage all you have to do is move it to the front now in terms of our app it's not surprising at all to see lots of apps pre-loaded here so you find all the Amazon apps all the way up to audible we find lots of Verizon apps in here as well of course we have the standard array of Google Apps and some Motorola apps which we'll take a look at in this video we have some other third party apps like NFL Mobile and Slacker Radio now you can get rid of these if you want so for example we have this Verizon protect app here so if you take it up here go up to app info you can disable it click okay click okay and it's uninstalling the app so if I go to the app door now that is gone so you can continue going through all the apps you don't want that way now this comes pre-installed with a widget that reveals some basic information all in one spot here and when you tap the edges it kind of spins around and vibrates the phone just to tell you that it's activating here but you can see it expands out to show you your notifications as well as your current weather conditions when you tap on it it takes you directly to that information so again if you want your date and time your alarms and that sort of thing it's right there if you want to go to your battery status it's right there your weather conditions Etc so it's kind of a nice utility and of course if you don't want this at all just tap and hold on it take it up to remove and it's gone now you're going to hear me say stock Android quite a bit here and that's the case as well with these Android Keys here so you have your recent apps which again is stock Android so you can see you can swipe your apps to close them you can tap on them to bring them forward so nothing fancy going on here and of course you can also tap and hold on the home button to swipe up to Google Now and and then we have our back button which again has no tricks here it just acts as a back button now like a lot of other Motorola devices today this one can be operated handsfree even if the screen is locked all you have to say is the launch phrase in this case it's okay droid turbo what's the weather like tomorrow in Rochester Hills tomorrow's forecast for Rochester Hills is 46 degrees with a chance of showers now you can do this at any time so for example you could just say Okay Droid Turbo how tall is the Empire State Building the Empire State Building is 1,250 ft tall so the idea here is that the microphone and speaker are sensitive and loud enough to operate this within a large room so you could be across the room and command this device and it will speak back to you now you can modify this under settings so if you go to settings go to moto you can see we have four categories here one of them is assist now assists are automated actions that are triggered by certain conditions or certain actions so for example sleeping you can silence your device uh at certain times of day so you can select those or you can silence only certain things so you can allow your favorite calls to come through or if somebody tries to call twice you also have driving mode so you can toggle on talk to me so it will retext messages and tell you who's calling if it determines that you're driving and of course you could play music when you connect through Bluetooth we also have our home location so you can select your current home location so we'll activate certain things like reading text messages or tell you who's calling when you're at home and of course you have your meeting settings this will basically silence your device device when you're in the meeting and it determines that by your calendar so it actually reads your meeting times on your calendar and will automatically silence your device and allow you to auto reply to messages here which you can customize we also have actions here so we can wave to silence and you can tap on this to explore exactly how this works so we can try it so if you're receiving a phone call you can just wave your hand over the display and it will silence it for you now we also have approach for Moto display so if your device is laying on a table and you go to reach for it or wave your hand over it it flashes your notifications and the time we also have our display options and one of them is Moto display which again allows you to see your notifications and a time when you pull the device out of your pocket or if you're handling it at all so it just flashes them on the display so again it kind of acts as your notification LED light now we can also limit the apps that appear on Moto display so for example you can unselect some of them only the ones that really push notifications are selected here so you can turn them off if you want we can also enable more privacy which will prevent the text of emails or messages from appearing on your lock screen now under voice this is where we can manage our launch phrase now like I said the default one is K droid turbo now you may not want that so we can manage this under manage launch phrase so we can change or improve the launch phrase here so right now that's okay droid turbo but we could also use Okay Google Now to select that one instead all right so let's go and customize our launch phrase here Hello computer now we can also type in our launch phas so we know exactly what we're supposed to say here all right so let's try this Holo computer what's the weather like tomorrow in Chicago tomorrow's forecast for Chicago is 45° with a chance of showers now let's take a look at some of the other Motorola apps included which includes Motorola Connect which manages your connected devices that includes the Moto 360 as well as the powerp pack micro which is another Motorola accessory and the Chrome extension which allows you to receive and respond to text messages and phone calls right within a Chrome browser which works pretty neat now we also have Motorola Migrate which will allow you to migrate your information from one phone to this phone so for example if you have an Android phone you can transfer your photos videos messages and more just by signing in with your Google account you also have your iPhone so you can transfer your contacts and your calendar from your iPhone but basically all you're doing here is logging into your iCloud account using a service that Motorola has partnered with here now Droid Z app is a way of sharing files between other Droid Zap devices or chomecast devices or my case the Nexus player but basically what happens is you can select a photo or video to share so for example if I go to photos here I can add a new photo I can either take a photo I can take a video or I can take one from uh the gallery here so I can go ahead and select one for my camera roll let's go and select that click done here what will happen is this will upload it to the cloud and allow nearby devices to see it and download it if they want again they have to have this droids app uh app installed now alternatively you could broadcast this image or a video to a Nexus player or chomecast device so I have my Nexus player setup right here and I can see my image right on my TV now if we take a look at our settings panel it's pretty close to stock Android there's a few things that have been added like the Moto feature which is also available as an app shortcut here so if you go to the app takes you right to that same location here for the the same controls we also have our Droid Zap control panel here which allows you to do things like share screenshots automatically so for 2 minutes it will share your screenshots to any nearby devices with a Droid Zap feature installed now under sound you'll find your audio effects with your equalizers here so you have wired stereo and you can select your profiles from here and you can see your controls for speakers as well we also have our Motorola ID which is connected to my Google account and then you have your Motorola privacy settings so you can change those if you prefer under display we'll find something called attentive display so it's basically watching for the presence of your face and will prevent the display from going to sleep if it determines that you're looking at it of course it'll also put it back to sleep sooner if you're not looking at it so it's one way of saving battery life now you can see how this works basically you just activate this and it's looking for the presence of your face so if I stand above my camera here it can see my face and acknowledges it for me now taking a look at the camera app it's really designed for Speed and simplicity so to take a photograph you just tap the screen focuses it for you automatically and takes the photograph so if you want tap to focus what you'll have to do is activate it from the menu on the side here that pulls right out and when you activate this we get this little tap Target which will focus the scene and exposure for you depending on where you drag and drop it then you can tap to take your photograph you also see we have other controls here like HDR Auto on and off our flash Auto on and off and then we have our video mode so we have HD slow-mo at 720p and Ultra HD 4K which we can select here and then we have our Panorama as well so you can see when we have 4K video selected we have 4K indicated in the camera app so we can start recording it it starts recording our video we can tap the screen to take a photograph while we recording video we can pause it and resume it so we can stop that like so we can also zoom in by swiping up like so so we zoom in not pinch in and out you zoom zoom up like so and then you can switch between the front-facing and rear facing camera now unfortunately like with the Moto X if you ever leave the camera app it defaults back to 1080p so you'll have to go back to select 4K all the time if you want to record in 4k persistently now unfortunately if you're using the phone in this orientation and you swipe in from the left edge here you can see it brings up Google Now that's one of the drawbacks of having these off screen Android keys with that camera interface now we can also scroll up here to change our resolution from widescreen to standard which is from 15.5 megapixels to 21 megapixels and then you can turn off your shutter sound and turn off the quick capture feature now in terms of the camera quality it's definitely impressive with a 21 megap sensor on the back you're able to get really sharp images with good color reproduction and just the right exposure for most scenes now the only issues I've had with this camera is its ability to find focus in dark scenes it can't seem to find it so you have to spend a lot of time kind of refocusing the scene to get the right image but in low light it does a pretty decent job and with that dual flash on either side of the camera you get a lot of well-lit shots without Shadow so again because most cameras put the LED flash to the side of the camera you'll get a lot of Shadow on your images but of course with a side by-side flash system like this you do get a lot of red eyee now in terms of video unfortunately without Optical image stable ization 4K video is really rough looking so it's hard to get really smooth 4K video out of this camera it would help if it had optical image stabilization which would make a big difference here but it does deliver Sharp video with good exposure and accurate colors now the big story is this really high resolution QHD display which looks fantastic that Super AMOLED technology means we get really dark blacks with Vivid colors my only complaint here is that the whites tend to be a little warm on this display a lot of OLED displays tend to dial it a little cooler this seems to be the trend with Motorola devices lately again text is really pin sharp and the colors are not too saturated now although we have these two speaker grills only one of them acts as the loud speaker here and that's the one on the left side now the earpiece seems to evenly distribute across the entire width of the device so the earpiece isn't one or the other now let me go ahead and demonstrate this the same engine used in the new Mini Cooper so I can cover up the audio on this side FR Wheels is a more expected 96 Kow electric motor now if you take a look at our geek bench 3 scores you can see they are marginally better than the Moto X scores now this has 3 gigs of ram versus 2 gigs of RAM but this has a 2.6 GHz processor versus a 2.5 gz processor it's the same Snapdragon processor but it's clocked a little higher on the Droid Turbo now the iPhone 6 single core score definitely beats out the Motorola phones but you can see the multi-core score is bested here thanks to quad cores versus dual cores now in terms of performance because we're running stock Android it's really quick and smooth with no signs of lag or hesitation pretty impressed overall with how well this phone moves around its operating system so that's one of the benefits of having a close to stock Android experience with a few tweaks thrown in now in terms of battery life they do promise you'll get 2 days or 48 hours out of this phone and I've been able to do that and better so pretty impressive overall so in the end the Droid Turbo stands out for a number of reasons it's basically a Moto X that has been taken up a few notches with a QHD display a 21 megapixel camera on the back and a huge battery which definitely best the Moto X in terms of battery life the Droid Turbo is also a little more ruggedized thanks to its Kevlar back panel or the ballistic nyline if you go with that so this is is perhaps a little more durable than the metal and leather or wood finishes you may get with the Moto X all right guys so that's going to do for me in this review of the droid turbo hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you again in the next onehey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with a look at the Motorola Droid Turbo which is launching for Verizon with some really impressive specs now one of them is a 5.2 in Super AMOLED display with QHD resolution which is 1440 x 2560 that's good for 565 pixels per inch this is powered by a Snapdragon 805 clock at 2.7 GHz with 3 gigs of RAM we also have a 21 megapixel rear-facing camera good for 4K video recording although there is no Optical image stabilization we also have a 2 megapixel front-facing camera good for 1080p video now the other big story here is a massive 3900 Mah hour battery which is non- removable now they estimated about 48 Hours of battery life out of this but we're going to have to test that in this video now there are two different types of materials for the back panel you can get the metallized glass fiber which is reinforced with Kevlar that comes in black or red and is available only in a 32 gig capacity but you can also get the ballistic nylon version which is available in a 64 gig capacity in addition the 32 gig it's only available in Black personally I think I prefer this because it gives you a lot more texture on the back panel to grip the phone but in either case both materials are designed for durability all right so let's go ahead and open up our packaging here so we have our sleeve and then we have this little clamshell box to open up and inside is our Motorola Droid and there I am in the reflection so let's go ahead and lift this up here if we flip it over you can see I have the Metalized glass fiber Edition which is black and 32 gig capacity only all right so let's go ahead and peel off our screen protector all right so let's set that aside for just a moment while we take a look at what we get in the Box here so I'm going to pull off this tray inside we have our paperwork so let's go and pop this open so again this is a Verizon phone so we have some Verizon paperwork here get to know your phone so maybe a quick start guide and some of the surfaces Verizon offers Global support information and calling card and different languages important consumer information and product and safety and warranty information so nothing terribly interesting here now we do have some interesting accessories in here including Motorola's turbocharger which is a rapid charger especially for such a large battery it's kind of nice to have one of these rapid Chargers this is included at no extra cost this is actually sold as a $30 accessory from Motorola but what this does is with 15 minutes of charge this will provide 8 hours of batter life to your phone so we just have a little plastic on the front hiding that nice glossy panel with the Motorola dimple right there now on the back we'll find all of our specs and toward the bottom we'll find our USB port for charging and of course we have our standard micro USB charging cable that works with that turbocharger all right so let's get back to the Motorola Droid Turbo first thing I want to do here is boot it up so we can take a look around now there is a new boot animation as you know the Droid series was famous for that Droid eye and that Droid sound but it's different this time so at the top you'll see that very large earpiece SL loudspeaker it's all in one and you can see there's these little notches at either side we also have our front-facing camera which is good for 2 megapixels and 1080p HD video and then you have all your light sensors proximity sensors and that sort of thing next to it now if you look at the edge of the glass you can see that it is rounded kind of similar to the Moto X and Nexus 6 now down below you'll find your backlit capacitive Android Keys as well as these dual microphones at the edge of the glass now just like the Moto X this device uses infrared to map the front of the display so it can see the presence of your face or your hand so when you wave your hand in front of it you can interact with it so you can actually see the infrared blasters in each corner of the glass display they're invisible to the naked eye but the camera can pick them up now on the back we'll find our motor roller badge which is not a dimple like you get with some other motor roller products and then you have your 21 megap rear-facing camera with a little pinhole microphone right next to it and dual LEDs on either side down below we'll find yet more microphones again I set the Dual microphones along with our Verizon and Droid branding as well as this little bump out here for the micro USB port on the bottom now if you look toward the bottom you can see the phone kind of tapers to a point and the glass sort of rolls into it kind of a nice detail but it does extend the length of the phone now on the right side we'll find our textured volume and power on and off Keys which are very tactile now that volume button is actually High in the SIM tray which you can pop off pretty easily now if you look at the back of the volume button there's a little thumbnail Port here for sticking your fingernail in here so you can grab it and pull it out and again this is a nano in comes completely out and you can put it back in when you're done changing it if you need to now the only thing you'll find on the top is the headphone jack and then you can see that curve to the phone on the back now once again there is no need for an LED notification light and that's because the entire display is the notification center so you can see when you twist or handle the device at all it wakes up and shows you your recent notifications as well as the time so instead of having to hit a button to unlock your device you can just tap the screen or move the screen around tap and swipe down to unlock it takes you to your home screen now if you have pending notifications you can see those badges on the screen if you tap and hold on them you'll get a preview at the top of the screen of that notification and if you want to jump to that app all I have to do is swipe up and activate that app takes you right to it now you can see up to three of these notification badges on the lock screen if you have more than that you can press the more icon and that will show you the other notifications and when you unlock into those notifications it basically just takes you to the drop down notification shade now alternatively just like in the Moto X you can just wave your hand over the display to wake it up as well all right so let's go and take a look at the user interface again we have our camera app which we can swipe to activate by swiping to the left alternatively you also have another gesture here which is unique to the Moto Series so I have to do is twist your device like this launch us right into the camera app which is very handy now once again we're running Android 4.4.4 in fact we can confirm this by going to settings going about this device at the bottom and we can see that right here Android version 4.4.4 Kit Kat but of course we're going to get lollipop in here by the end of the year which is very nice now the experience here is actually pretty close to stock although it is more skin than the Moto X experience so you can see we have our drop down notification shape which is pretty similar to stock you can expand your notifications you can clear them all by hitting that X you can go up here for your quick setting toggles you can see your battery status right here you can swipe between your available homepages you can tap and hold on the homepage to get to your editor so you can change your wallpapers you can see all the available wallpapers here you can also tap and hold here to get to your widgets so you can see all the available widgets here again very similar to stock Android you can also reposition your homepages like so so if you want to change which one is the primary homepage all you have to do is move it to the front now in terms of our app it's not surprising at all to see lots of apps pre-loaded here so you find all the Amazon apps all the way up to audible we find lots of Verizon apps in here as well of course we have the standard array of Google Apps and some Motorola apps which we'll take a look at in this video we have some other third party apps like NFL Mobile and Slacker Radio now you can get rid of these if you want so for example we have this Verizon protect app here so if you take it up here go up to app info you can disable it click okay click okay and it's uninstalling the app so if I go to the app door now that is gone so you can continue going through all the apps you don't want that way now this comes pre-installed with a widget that reveals some basic information all in one spot here and when you tap the edges it kind of spins around and vibrates the phone just to tell you that it's activating here but you can see it expands out to show you your notifications as well as your current weather conditions when you tap on it it takes you directly to that information so again if you want your date and time your alarms and that sort of thing it's right there if you want to go to your battery status it's right there your weather conditions Etc so it's kind of a nice utility and of course if you don't want this at all just tap and hold on it take it up to remove and it's gone now you're going to hear me say stock Android quite a bit here and that's the case as well with these Android Keys here so you have your recent apps which again is stock Android so you can see you can swipe your apps to close them you can tap on them to bring them forward so nothing fancy going on here and of course you can also tap and hold on the home button to swipe up to Google Now and and then we have our back button which again has no tricks here it just acts as a back button now like a lot of other Motorola devices today this one can be operated handsfree even if the screen is locked all you have to say is the launch phrase in this case it's okay droid turbo what's the weather like tomorrow in Rochester Hills tomorrow's forecast for Rochester Hills is 46 degrees with a chance of showers now you can do this at any time so for example you could just say Okay Droid Turbo how tall is the Empire State Building the Empire State Building is 1,250 ft tall so the idea here is that the microphone and speaker are sensitive and loud enough to operate this within a large room so you could be across the room and command this device and it will speak back to you now you can modify this under settings so if you go to settings go to moto you can see we have four categories here one of them is assist now assists are automated actions that are triggered by certain conditions or certain actions so for example sleeping you can silence your device uh at certain times of day so you can select those or you can silence only certain things so you can allow your favorite calls to come through or if somebody tries to call twice you also have driving mode so you can toggle on talk to me so it will retext messages and tell you who's calling if it determines that you're driving and of course you could play music when you connect through Bluetooth we also have our home location so you can select your current home location so we'll activate certain things like reading text messages or tell you who's calling when you're at home and of course you have your meeting settings this will basically silence your device device when you're in the meeting and it determines that by your calendar so it actually reads your meeting times on your calendar and will automatically silence your device and allow you to auto reply to messages here which you can customize we also have actions here so we can wave to silence and you can tap on this to explore exactly how this works so we can try it so if you're receiving a phone call you can just wave your hand over the display and it will silence it for you now we also have approach for Moto display so if your device is laying on a table and you go to reach for it or wave your hand over it it flashes your notifications and the time we also have our display options and one of them is Moto display which again allows you to see your notifications and a time when you pull the device out of your pocket or if you're handling it at all so it just flashes them on the display so again it kind of acts as your notification LED light now we can also limit the apps that appear on Moto display so for example you can unselect some of them only the ones that really push notifications are selected here so you can turn them off if you want we can also enable more privacy which will prevent the text of emails or messages from appearing on your lock screen now under voice this is where we can manage our launch phrase now like I said the default one is K droid turbo now you may not want that so we can manage this under manage launch phrase so we can change or improve the launch phrase here so right now that's okay droid turbo but we could also use Okay Google Now to select that one instead all right so let's go and customize our launch phrase here Hello computer now we can also type in our launch phas so we know exactly what we're supposed to say here all right so let's try this Holo computer what's the weather like tomorrow in Chicago tomorrow's forecast for Chicago is 45° with a chance of showers now let's take a look at some of the other Motorola apps included which includes Motorola Connect which manages your connected devices that includes the Moto 360 as well as the powerp pack micro which is another Motorola accessory and the Chrome extension which allows you to receive and respond to text messages and phone calls right within a Chrome browser which works pretty neat now we also have Motorola Migrate which will allow you to migrate your information from one phone to this phone so for example if you have an Android phone you can transfer your photos videos messages and more just by signing in with your Google account you also have your iPhone so you can transfer your contacts and your calendar from your iPhone but basically all you're doing here is logging into your iCloud account using a service that Motorola has partnered with here now Droid Z app is a way of sharing files between other Droid Zap devices or chomecast devices or my case the Nexus player but basically what happens is you can select a photo or video to share so for example if I go to photos here I can add a new photo I can either take a photo I can take a video or I can take one from uh the gallery here so I can go ahead and select one for my camera roll let's go and select that click done here what will happen is this will upload it to the cloud and allow nearby devices to see it and download it if they want again they have to have this droids app uh app installed now alternatively you could broadcast this image or a video to a Nexus player or chomecast device so I have my Nexus player setup right here and I can see my image right on my TV now if we take a look at our settings panel it's pretty close to stock Android there's a few things that have been added like the Moto feature which is also available as an app shortcut here so if you go to the app takes you right to that same location here for the the same controls we also have our Droid Zap control panel here which allows you to do things like share screenshots automatically so for 2 minutes it will share your screenshots to any nearby devices with a Droid Zap feature installed now under sound you'll find your audio effects with your equalizers here so you have wired stereo and you can select your profiles from here and you can see your controls for speakers as well we also have our Motorola ID which is connected to my Google account and then you have your Motorola privacy settings so you can change those if you prefer under display we'll find something called attentive display so it's basically watching for the presence of your face and will prevent the display from going to sleep if it determines that you're looking at it of course it'll also put it back to sleep sooner if you're not looking at it so it's one way of saving battery life now you can see how this works basically you just activate this and it's looking for the presence of your face so if I stand above my camera here it can see my face and acknowledges it for me now taking a look at the camera app it's really designed for Speed and simplicity so to take a photograph you just tap the screen focuses it for you automatically and takes the photograph so if you want tap to focus what you'll have to do is activate it from the menu on the side here that pulls right out and when you activate this we get this little tap Target which will focus the scene and exposure for you depending on where you drag and drop it then you can tap to take your photograph you also see we have other controls here like HDR Auto on and off our flash Auto on and off and then we have our video mode so we have HD slow-mo at 720p and Ultra HD 4K which we can select here and then we have our Panorama as well so you can see when we have 4K video selected we have 4K indicated in the camera app so we can start recording it it starts recording our video we can tap the screen to take a photograph while we recording video we can pause it and resume it so we can stop that like so we can also zoom in by swiping up like so so we zoom in not pinch in and out you zoom zoom up like so and then you can switch between the front-facing and rear facing camera now unfortunately like with the Moto X if you ever leave the camera app it defaults back to 1080p so you'll have to go back to select 4K all the time if you want to record in 4k persistently now unfortunately if you're using the phone in this orientation and you swipe in from the left edge here you can see it brings up Google Now that's one of the drawbacks of having these off screen Android keys with that camera interface now we can also scroll up here to change our resolution from widescreen to standard which is from 15.5 megapixels to 21 megapixels and then you can turn off your shutter sound and turn off the quick capture feature now in terms of the camera quality it's definitely impressive with a 21 megap sensor on the back you're able to get really sharp images with good color reproduction and just the right exposure for most scenes now the only issues I've had with this camera is its ability to find focus in dark scenes it can't seem to find it so you have to spend a lot of time kind of refocusing the scene to get the right image but in low light it does a pretty decent job and with that dual flash on either side of the camera you get a lot of well-lit shots without Shadow so again because most cameras put the LED flash to the side of the camera you'll get a lot of Shadow on your images but of course with a side by-side flash system like this you do get a lot of red eyee now in terms of video unfortunately without Optical image stable ization 4K video is really rough looking so it's hard to get really smooth 4K video out of this camera it would help if it had optical image stabilization which would make a big difference here but it does deliver Sharp video with good exposure and accurate colors now the big story is this really high resolution QHD display which looks fantastic that Super AMOLED technology means we get really dark blacks with Vivid colors my only complaint here is that the whites tend to be a little warm on this display a lot of OLED displays tend to dial it a little cooler this seems to be the trend with Motorola devices lately again text is really pin sharp and the colors are not too saturated now although we have these two speaker grills only one of them acts as the loud speaker here and that's the one on the left side now the earpiece seems to evenly distribute across the entire width of the device so the earpiece isn't one or the other now let me go ahead and demonstrate this the same engine used in the new Mini Cooper so I can cover up the audio on this side FR Wheels is a more expected 96 Kow electric motor now if you take a look at our geek bench 3 scores you can see they are marginally better than the Moto X scores now this has 3 gigs of ram versus 2 gigs of RAM but this has a 2.6 GHz processor versus a 2.5 gz processor it's the same Snapdragon processor but it's clocked a little higher on the Droid Turbo now the iPhone 6 single core score definitely beats out the Motorola phones but you can see the multi-core score is bested here thanks to quad cores versus dual cores now in terms of performance because we're running stock Android it's really quick and smooth with no signs of lag or hesitation pretty impressed overall with how well this phone moves around its operating system so that's one of the benefits of having a close to stock Android experience with a few tweaks thrown in now in terms of battery life they do promise you'll get 2 days or 48 hours out of this phone and I've been able to do that and better so pretty impressive overall so in the end the Droid Turbo stands out for a number of reasons it's basically a Moto X that has been taken up a few notches with a QHD display a 21 megapixel camera on the back and a huge battery which definitely best the Moto X in terms of battery life the Droid Turbo is also a little more ruggedized thanks to its Kevlar back panel or the ballistic nyline if you go with that so this is is perhaps a little more durable than the metal and leather or wood finishes you may get with the Moto X all right guys so that's going to do for me in this review of the droid turbo hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you again in the next one\n"