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Motorola DROID Maxx 2 vs Samsung Galaxy A8 HTC One A9: specs comparison

posted by Peter K.

Oct 27, 2015, 12:12 PM

Motorola DROID Maxx 2 vs Samsung Galaxy A8 HTC One A9: specs comparison

Motorola made the Droid Maxx 2 official. With mostly mid-range specs, the phone is up against some heated competition in the mid-range segment. Equipped with a 5.5-inch 1080p display, 2GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 615 chipset, a 21MP camera, and also sizeable 2,630mAh battery. Sadly, we only get Lollipop out of the box.

In this day and age, these are mid-range specs, there's no denying that, so what are the phones that should the Maxx 2 get compared against? Well, we picked Samsung's Galaxy A8 and HTC's recent One A9 as two of the more recent and interesting offerings.

The three clash against one another in our fresh-off-the-bat specs comparison, so just scroll down below and compare their specs to your heartfelt content.

Motorola DROID MAXX 2 vs Samsung Galaxy A8 vs HTC One A9

Display

Size

5.5 inches

5.7 inches

5.0 inches

Technology

TFT

Super AMOLED

AMOLED

Screen-to-body

74.61 %

73.91 %

66.17 %

Features

Scratch-resistant glass, Ambient light sensor, Proximity sensor

Hardware & Performance

System chip

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 8939

Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 5430

Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 8952

Processor

Octa-core, 1700 MHz, ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit

Octa-core, 1500 MHz, ARM Cortex-A53, 64-bit

GPU

Adreno 405

RAM

2GB

2GB LPDDR3

3GB

Internal storage

16GB

32GB

OS

Android (7.0 Nougat, 6.0 Marshmallow, 5.1 Lollipop)

Android (6.0 Marshmallow, 5.1 Lollipop)

Android (7.0 Nougat, 6.0 Marshmallow), HTC Sense UI

Battery

Capacity

3630 mAh

3050 mAh

2150 mAh

Charging

Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0

Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0

Stand-by time

12.7 days (304 hours)

Talk time (3G)

16.00 hours

Stand-by time (3G)

18.0 days (432 hours)

Music playback

60.00 hours

Video playback

12.00 hours

Camera

Rear

Single camera

Main camera

21 MP

16 MP

13 MP

Features

PDAF

Autofocus

Sapphire crystal lens cover, OIS, Autofocus, BSI sensor

Specifications

Aperture size: F2.0

Aperture size: F1.9; Pixel size: 1 μm

Aperture size: F2.0

Video recording

1920x1080 (Full HD) (30 fps)

1920x1080 (Full HD)

1920x1080 (Full HD) (30 fps)

Features

EIS, Video calling, Video sharing

Video calling

Hyperlapse, Video calling, Video sharing

Front

5 MP

4 MP

Video capture

1920x1080 (Full HD)

Design

Dimensions

5.83 x 2.95 x 0.43 inches (148 x 75 x 10.9)

6.22 x 3.02 x 0.23 inches (158 x 76.8 x 5.9 mm)

5.74 x 2.79 x 0.29 inches (145.75 x 70.8 x 7.26 mm)

Weight

5.96 oz (169 g)

5.33 oz (151 g)

5.04 oz (143 g)

Materials

Back: Metal; Frame: Metal

Back: Metal

Resistance

Splash

Biometrics

Fingerprint (touch)

Features

Touch sensitive control keys

Shopping information

MSRP

$ 384

$ 500

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8 Comments

4. rd_nest

Posts: 1656; Member since: Jun 06, 2010

A8 is sexy, and the batterylife is amazing!

posted on Oct 27, 2015, 12:33 PM 1

5. Hexa-core

Posts: 2131; Member since: Aug 11, 2015

And it's Exnyos 5430 variant is even more powerful!

posted on Oct 27, 2015, 1:40 PM 2

6. vladimir86

Posts: 85; Member since: Oct 15, 2011

more pwerfoul for what. For playing candy crash online? Lol all. This procesor can handle everything what is on play store!!

posted on Oct 27, 2015, 3:04 PM 0

8. Hexa-core

you seem to be ignorant. Exynos 5430 trashes Snapdragon 617: quad-core 1.8 GHz vs Cortex-A15 versus octa-core 1.7 Cortex-A53? Mali-T628MP6 versus Adreno 405? heck, go improve yoùr knowledge on SoCs!!

posted on Oct 28, 2015, 5:36 AM 0

2. Hexa-core

i'll go with Sammy's A8! so sexy, let alone it's camera.

posted on Oct 27, 2015, 12:19 PM 1

1. rubyonrails3

Posts: 375; Member since: Oct 01, 2014

HTC is clean winner in this comparison ( till price is $400 ). only thing HTC is lacking s bigger battery. if HTC have put bigger battery it might have performed better than HTC One M8.

posted on Oct 27, 2015, 12:16 PM 1

3. Hexa-core

HTC is clear winner? agh it's camera is so poor! Galaxy A8 and DROID Turbo 2 have no major draw back! :D

posted on Oct 27, 2015, 12:22 PM 2

7. rubyonrails3

It seems you don't pay attention to title of article. its Droid Maxx 2.. how you know HTC camera is bad? pure speculation. everyone saying its really good camera. I guess HTC camera will be better cuz it have OIS and all features as new high end cameras have. also in my opinion HTC A9 looks sexy.