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Motorola’s Droid phones tend to arrive in packs. The original Droid RAZR was released just a couple months before the Droid RAZR Maxx — essentially, the RAZR with a larger battery. The next year, the company followed up with the Droid RAZR HD, the RAZR M and the RAZR Maxx HD, the latter of which promised longer battery life. Then, after a long silence, the OEM finally broke its silence this past July. At a press event co-headlined by Verizon, Motorola announced its first products since being acquired by Google, once again choosing to launch three devices. We’ve already taken a look at the Droid Ultra, and in this review we’ll focus on the largest of the trio, appropriately called the Droid Maxx.

Despite the fact that all three offer roughly the same mid-range specs, the Maxx stands out from the rest of its siblings thanks to its build, wireless-charging capability and — surprise! — its larger battery. But are these three factors important enough to justify paying $300 on-contract, when the Moto X, Droid Ultra and other flagships all cost $100 less? Let’s find out.%Gallery-slideshow83998%

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As we saw in a very early rendering of the newest DROID family devices, there’s a Limited Edition of the DROID Ultra out there in the wild. This device has appeared for the first time in “real life”, as it were, this week on eBay, some collectors – or employees, more than likely – have […]

Not everyone gets to walk behind the tech industry’s velvet ropes. So when Motorola opened the gates to its Fort Worth, Texas facility — the place where custom Moto X’s are made — we were there to bring you an inside look. And in the interest of getting you even more intimately acquainted with the Google company’s assembled in the USA smartphone production hub, we have something almost as good as being there: a behind-the-scenes video tour. So, what are you waiting for… an invite? Head past the break to glimpse phase one of this whole new Motorola and see Governor Rick Perry spike an iPhone 5.

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It does seem that Motorola is pretty happy with the relative success of their Moto X smartphone, so much so that they are churning out 100,000 Moto X phones per week from the Flextronics plant in Fort Worth, Texas. I guess demand for the device is not as drab as naysayers thought, right? Well, it seems that the smartphone business is not the only thing that Motorola is after at the moment, but they do seem to be concentrating on tablets as well.

Motorola CEO Dennis Woodside did mention to Engadget over at the company’s Fort Worth facility, saying, “That’s something we are working on, but [there’s] nothing specific to talk about right now.” Could this very well be the long rumored Moto tablet X? Assuming that this is the new tablet that Woodside is talking about, let us keep our fingers and heart crossed that it is not going to go down the same path as that of previous efforts in the form of the Motorola Xoom and Xyboard. Alternatively, who are we to say that Motorola does not have plans for a phablet in the pipeline? All there is to it at the moment are just rumors, so we will have to sit this one out and wait for the real deal.

Alleged Motorola Tablet Is On The Drawing Board original content from Ubergizmo.