Nokia Lumia 900 vs Motorola Droid Razr Maxx: Powerful Smartphones with Best Specs

The Nokia Lumia 900 touts a fabulous ClearBlack touch screen and offers an eight megapixel rear-facing camera, excellent network performance and reception and Nokia Drive helps get turn-by-turn navigation with clear directions as well as voice guidance.

On the other hand, the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx comes with an extremely powerful battery which reportedly offers the longest talk time of all smartphones. The power-packed device is said to offer fast 4G network speeds and features business-ready security which protects e-mails, contacts and calendar by encrypting the data and keeping them secure.

Check out how both smartphones stack up:

Display

The Nokia Lumia 900 flaunts a 4.3-inch AMOLED capacitive touch screen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and incorporates Nokia ClearBlack display. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.

The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx comes with a Super AMOLED Advanced capacitive touch screen with a whopping resolution of 960 x 540 pixels. The 4.3-inch smartphone also boasts Corning Gorilla Glass protection for the display.

Processor

The Lumia 900 is powered by a 1.4 GHz Scorpion CPU and Qualcomm APQ8055 Snapdragon chipset. The Adreno 205 offers support to powerful graphics and 512 MB RAM.

In comparison, the Droid Razr Maxx has a 1.2 GHz Cortex-A9 Dual-core CPU, TI OMAP chipset and PowerVR SGX540 GPU and 1GB of RAM.

Camera

The Nokia smartphone contains an eight megapixel rear-facing camera which features Carl Zeiss optics, AutoFocus, dual LED flash and geo-tagging. It provides a secondary camera of 1.3 megapixels for video calling.

The Motorola smartphone also has an eight megapixel rear-facing camera - with a resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels. It features are AutoFocus, LED flash, touch-focus, geo-tagging, face detection and image stabilisation. It supports HD video recording of 1080p and a front-facing camera of 1.3 megapixel for video chats.

Operating System

The Lumia 900 runs on the Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango operating system.

The Droid Razr Maxx runs on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, which can now be upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Connectivity

The WLAN features of the Lumia 900 include Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n as well as Bluetooth 2.1 technology with A2DP and EDR.

On the other hand, the Droid Razr Maxx features Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with Wi-Fi hotspot. It offers Bluetooth 4.0 wireless with A2DP, LE plus EDR.

Storage

Nokia's smartphone has 16GB of onboard storage. However, it lacks a microSD card slot.

Motorola's Droid Razr Maxx has only 8GB of onboard storage but does offer a microSD slot which allows for expansion up to 32GB.

Battery

The Nokia Lumia 900 packs a Li-Ion 1830mAh standard battery which allows for stand-by time of up to 300 hours on both 2G and 3G networks, as well as talk time of up to seven hours.

Motorola's Droid Razr Maxx comes with a powerful Li-Ion 3300mAh standard battery that allows for talk time of up to 21.5 hours and stand by time of up to 380 hours.