Finally after a long time of waiting, Motorola Droid Bionic is finally out today. The device is now available for $300 at Verizon Wireless and packs both LTE connectivity and a dual-core processor. It also seems to be the thinnest LTE Network handset yet to cross that carrier’s airwaves. And yes, it also packs a powerful battery.
Lets take a look at its “Good” and “Bad” sides in the detailed review given below. Check it out:
Hardware:
Droid X and Droid X 2 users will feel comfortable with this device. This is because it matches a lot with these devices in size and weight. On the lower-left corner there is a micro-USB and a micro-HDMI ports, needed to power many of the wide array of accessories for this thing. The power and the headphone port can be found up top. An eight mega-pixel camera on the back, that can easily manage 1080p video recording.
But it also differs on some points from its predecessors. One big difference is the deletion of the physical buttons below the display, which we always liked but found a little too firm. The Droid Bionic is 13.3mm at its thickest while the Droid X2 is just 10 mm at its thickest point. And when it comes to weight, the LTE packed Droid Bionic is just 159 grams. Pretty lighter then the X2.
In the hand it seems solid, but not heavy. Up front is a 4.3-inch qHD display that looks pretty stylish and impressive. Actually, very impressive. It provides the eye-popping clarity. Though it doesn’t provide saturation like Samsung’s Super AMOLED Plus displays, but still you can not say that it lacks in contrast, brightness or resolution.
Situated above is a VGA Webcam and an LED status indicator, so you can be sure that if you have an unread email this phone will be blinking at you.
When it comes to the storage capacity, the Droid Bionic has got a 16GB of total storage built into the phone, about half of which is reserved for apps and other system needs. The phone comes with a 16 GB card and you can bump it up to 32 GB if you want.
Because this is an LTE device, so you will have both, a CDMA and a GSM on tap. Globe trotters will find dual-band GSM (900 and 1,800MHz) along with 2,100MHz UMTS support, and all that is augmented by Bluetooth 2.1 and 802.11b/g/n WiFi.
Performance and Battery Life:
The Droid Bionic has a 1,700mAh cell beneath the thin husk of its back cover. Yups! Its the largest battery on LTE. And not just that, there’s an extended cell coming too. So we can say that in fields of battery life, it has a power to rule all other 4G Verizon devices.
The battery is adequate for a day of moderate usage (i.e. e-mail, web surfing, calling, texting etc.) But if you’re thinking about using this phone as a modem for your lappy, then you’ll probably be looking for a second battery because it will work for only three hours.
When it comes to performance, its TI OMAP processor, running at 1GHz, is more than enough to load apps quickly, render webpages snappily and overall deliver an experience that will not take a test of your patience. The device has got a surprising responsiveness.
The phone delivers a solid 2,150 on Quadrant, 50.5 MFLOPS on Linpack multi-thread (41.6 on single), 27.7fps on Nenamark 1, 46.7 on the second and churning through the SunSpider JavaScript test in a very respectable 3,926ms. As you can see, these scores are very similar to the latest Photon 4G. But if we compare both of these from the American army of Samsung Galaxy SII phones, then we’ll find that it leaves both of them in dust.
Software:
The Droid Bionic is running a slightly customized version of Android Gingerbread (2.3.4) that includes the latest Google Talk with video chatting feature. The OS has a Application Groups feature. Just create a group of the apps that you do want to see and set the phone to display that set by default and leave the rest on the device.
There’s also an amazing feature named custom lock screen gives you easy access to mute your phone, and has the macho Droid look that you’ve always expected and, generally, tolerated on these devices. Finally, I can see that overall the OS of this phone is a nice one and never feels struggling with itself and responses to your touch quickly.
Camera Qualiy:
Seems same as the one found on the X2 and the X before it and also delivers the same results. The picture lack a bit of contrast. The autofocus lens does do a great job on close-up macro shots, but I found focusing to be slow in some situations that makes in a few seconds worth of shutter lag in some cases, which makes capturing images of our impatient canine models rather challenging.
Video recording has been improved up to 1080p and the results are really amazing.
And Finally:
Finally we can say that this is a great product, but has few flaws. It completes all our desires that were left in Droid X2. For right now, its a great choice. the best combination of wireless and device speed that we’ve yet seen on Verizon.
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