While most of the current Motorola Droid Turbo users are still worrying about all the various problems that the Android 5.1 Lollipop have brought to their handsets when it was officially rolled out last month, the American company is already busy working on this year’s edition of its flagship smartphone.
According to Yibada, new images of the Motorola Droid Turbo 2015 was leaked online indicating among others that the handset, to be exclusively distributed by Verizon again, will have a wireless charging feature.
The Motorola Droid Turbo will come at the heels of the recent successful launchings of the Moto G 2015, the Moto X Style, and the Moto X Play.
But the Motorola Droid Turbo will not be the last smartphone that will come from the Lenovo-owned company this year as it is rumored that the Droid Maxx II and the Droid Turbo 2 are also to be launched this year.
Familiar chassis and back panel
Based on the leaked images of the Motorola Droid Turbo 2015, the chassis of the device looks similar to the Moto X Style and Moto X Play, and will most likely be made with the same material, notes Ecumenical News.
The leak also revealed that the chassis features a coil for wireless charging, which means that the device will support the Qi Wireless charging protocol, which was also present in the Motorola Droid Turbo 2014.
As the back panel of the Motorola Droid Turbo 2015 will have a similar finish to the Moto X Play smartphone, it is expected that the upcoming handset will come with customization options and users will not be simply limited to choosing between ballistic nylon and Kevlar.
The Motorola Droid Turbo 2015 appears very much like the Moto X Play but the latter is not available in the US markets so it is likely that the former will fill in the slot for American consumers and the two smartphones will not compete directly in the same market.
The Motorola Droid Turbo 2014 came with a huge 3900 mAH battery while the Moto X Play released recently came with a 3630 mAH so it is likely that this year’s edition of the Motorola Droid Turbo will pretty much have the same battery capacity.
Other rumored features
The upcoming Motorola Droid Turbo 2015 will be released soon, but Motorola has yet to come up with a specific announcement or statement to indicate the exact date.
Based on documents obtained from the Federal Communications Commission in the US, the Motorola Droid Turbo shall reportedly support turbo-charging, 802.11 ac MiMo WiFi, LTE Advanced, as well as US LTE bands that are even outside the coverage of Verizon Wireless.
There are also reports that the handset will feature an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 processor and Adreno 430 chip. The smartphone will reportedly come with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop out of the box so it is likely that it will come before Google officially releases the Android M operating system within a couple months’ time.
Meanwhile, Motorola was not planning to roll out the Android 5.1 Lollipop on the Motorola Droid Turbo 2014, but due to insistent demand from a good number of users, US carrier Verizon Wireless decided to do it on its own.
In June, Verizon hosted the Android 5.1 Lollipop simulator on its website to give Motorola Droid Turbo users and owners a preview of the features of the firmware update that they could expect on their handset.
But the simulator is not an app that can be downloaded and installed on the Motorola Droid Turbo. It is merely an interactive guide that walked them through things like downloading apps and adding widgets to the home screen, using Google Now and Google Maps, and browsing the web in Google Chrome.