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It also doesn't help that most people in the US never heard of the Maxx.
Laura, the other truth is that the market is so saturated that it isn't about users buying what they like...it's about OEMs generating a hit phone that people are willing to buy to build their bottom lines. Sahib, 99 and I have one thing in common - we bought a Lumia 810 at some point, which was a good phone at the time. But as it didn't sell well, it was killed off by T-Mobile 4 months after launch.
The Droid Turbo (I own the international version called the Maxx) has the same base hardware as the Google run Nexus 6. But, becuase it sold so-so globally and not as much here on Verizon, it took so long to get updates (it went from 4.4.4 to 5.0.2 as 5.0 and 5.0.1 were skipped, and it is supposed to go from 5.0.2 to 6.0.1, skipping 5.1, 5.1.1 and 6.0) it'll barely meet the OEM support requirements by fall 2016 where it gets kicked to the curb for the Moto Z.
It's not a bad phone. My two knocks against it are the camera and the update situation. It runs much better on 6.0.1 soak test and you have to abuse it to kill the battery in one day. But it gets thrown in the pile of decent phones that weren't a hit.
So while there are many choices in Android, buyer beware as you may buy a phone you like that doesn't sell well and you're permanently stuck with what the phone can only do out of the box.
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