Verizon debuts the Droid Maxx, the successor to the RAZR Maxx HD
updated  Fans of Kevlar and long battery life will be happy to
hear that Verizon unveiled its latest Maxx, the Droid Maxx, this
morning in New York City, and it sports a massive 48-hour
battery life. It's apparently 9 percent thinner than last year's
counterpart, the RAZR Maxx HD, and it starts at $299 (with the
standard two-year contract, naturally) on August 20th. Specifics
about which CPU and GPU being used weren't given, though the
latest Maxx is reportedly 24 percent faster in the CPU
department and 100 percent faster in terms of graphics
processing (all on a single SoC, it sounds like). It also
features a 10-megapixel camera out back that's capable of
shooting 1080p HD video.  The new Maxx was unveiled alongside
the Droid Mini and Ultra, effectively replacing the RAZR line
that debuted last fall. All three new phones come pre-loaded
with Google's VR game Ingress, and seemingly all run on
Motorola's newly announced X8 computing system. We'r