Motorola Droid Bionic 4G has the specs and the price drop that could make most users take the plunge ~ GoAndroid

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Motorola Droid Bionic 4G has the specs and the price drop that could make most users take the plunge

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Simranpal SIngh

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Motorola released their Droid Bionic 4G Android smartphone recently, and it is exclusive to Verizon’s 4G LTE mobile broadband network. While it is the fourth phone to land on Verizon’s LTE 4G platform, it is the first Verizon LTE phone with a dual core processor. There is one other important designation that the Motorola Droid Bionic owns in comparison to the other three Verizon LTE 4G network handsets. Beginning with the HTC Thunderbolt, which was the first handset to arrive on the Verizon 4G LTE platform, the three handsets other than the Droid Bionic seem heavy and dense feeling, and definitely at up battery life at a rapid speed. The Motorola Droid Bionic is the lightest and thinnest of all Verizon 4G LTE handsets, and is the stingiest when it comes to battery usage.
New customers can buy the Motorola Droid Bionic for only $149 at select online retailers.
Physically it appears like most other 4G handsets, arriving in a rectangular, black slab form factor. The familiar four Android control buttons lie beneath the display when held in portrait orientation, and the screen offers a 4.3 inch qHD display. The exterior is made from heavy-duty plastic, which keeps the weight down, but doesn’t feel poorly constructed. 540 x 900 pixel resolution is offered with a coating of scratch resistant Corning Gorilla Glass. The screen supports up to 16 million colors and multitouch gestures, and light and proximity sensors are built into the display.
The improved run time on a single battery charge approaches 11 hours, easily the best of all 4G LTE devices. A rear facing 8 megapixel camera offers dual LED flash, touch to focus, face detection features, panorama picture taking mode and autofocus, and records video in 1080P HD at up to 30 frames per second. There is also a front facing VGA quality chat cam which provides video calls as well.
Facebook, Photobucket, Picasa, Twitter and Adobe Flash media player software is preloaded, a dual core 1.0 GHz processor with 1 GB of RAM memory is present, a 3-D graphics hardware accelerator is also present and Google’s Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread operating system is present out-of-the-box to round out the software set. The Motorola Droid Bionic offers a microUSB port for charging the device and connecting to other peripheral electronics, a microSD slot for memory and storage expansion, and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless connectivity. HDMI and DLNA video out are also present.
The Motorola Droid Bionic 4G Android smartphone retails for $149 with a two-year activation and is exclusive to the Verizon wireless 4G LTE mobile broadband network.