Moto X Style to be rebranded as 'DROID Turbo 2' – Rumors and Specs

By Aarati Shah, Christian Post Contributor Friday, August 28, 2015

Everyone is expecting a high-end DROID phone from Verizon before the winter holidays. Rumors have it that Verizon's full-priced flagship will be called DROID Turbo 2 and will be based on Motorola's Moto X Style/Moto X Pure Edition.

The Moto X Style is available in the US as the Moto X Pure Edition and in an unlocked form. According to speculations and unconfirmed sources, Motorola and Verizon are collaborating on bringing the Moto X Style with a few changes to the US as Verizon DROID Turbo 2.

If this is the case, the specs of Moto X Style and DROID Turbo 2 would be the same. There might be some changes, like the DROID Turbo 2 might have a plastic OLED screen whereas the Moto X Style has a plain OLED one.

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The specs are rumored to be the same:

Display: Made of Corning Gorilla Glass 3 and screen is 5.7 inch TFT LCD with resolution of 520 ppi.
Camera: The rear camera is 21 mega pixel with 4K resolution, slow motion video and the front selfie camera is 5 mega pixel.
Operating system: It works on the Android 5.1.1 Lollipop and is powered with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 hexa-core @ 1.8GHz, Adreno 418 GPU
RAM: It has a 3GB RAM and storage is expandable to 128GB via SD Card from 3 variants of 16, 32 and 64GB.
Battery: Its battery is 3000mAh that is non-removable.

Other notable features are the front facing stereos with smartboost and water repellent nano coating.
All the above features are similar to any other high end smartphone.

Many are of the opinion that Verizon's original Motorola DROID Turbo is still the best Android smartphone amongst others. Its plus point was the battery that could last for 2 days. Besides that, its camera was great and it had a superb design.

With all the rumours, it remains to be seen if the Verizon DROID Turbo 2 will be even better than the DROID Turbo.