Verizon Droid Turbo hands on: A giant battery with few tradeoffs

Verizon’s Droid Turbo is designed to attack one of the main complaints about smartphones: battery life.

The Motorola-made phone packs a huge, 3,900-milliamp-hour (mAh) battery that’s rated to last 48 hours — two full days — of "mixed" use. That's almost 1,000mAh more than the iPhone 6 Plus, and about 800mAh more than the Samsung Galaxy Note 4.

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We won't know for sure whether Motorola's two-day-per-charge claim is true until we get a chance to do a thorough test, but the "monster" battery definitely has one noticeable effect: it makes the phone bigger. Read more...

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