Saturday 10 September 2011

Review: Bionic Droid, Verizon's Latest Smartphone Overhyped

There was a clear trend with the latest Android phones coming to Verizon Wireless. The machine starts beating, the fans get excited, the hype machine into overdrive it starts, the fans are voracious, and then the unit is out and fans are left with the bitter feeling towards her. I find this to be particularly intense at Verizon compared to the other three carriers, perhaps because they are the largest network, or because the LTE conducted an exorbitant amount of early adopters to the service. Whatever the reason, the trend seems to be quite important. Take for example the HTC Thunderbolt. This phone has a bad image at the beginning because of some reports that the phone continued to be delayed, although there is nothing official from Verizon announces the release of the phone.

Now we have the Droid Bionic, the latest range of phones from Verizon Wireless droid. Last month we published an article on the line next to "superphone" led by Verizon, bionics is the main culprit. Now that the phone is off, to see if this phone until 9 months of hype and riddles.

Look and Feel

Bionic droid is very familiar with the body in shape for all users who have owned the droid Droid X or X2. Bulges at the top of the device to hold the camera, and the steep slopes to create the perfect place your index finger when holding the phone. Back of the phone is a thin layer of soft plastic, which is a clear difference between many of the previous phones Droid. In fact, the whole design of the phone's body is different from the previous devices Droid. Gone are the hard edges and sharp moderation in exchange for soft edges and soft feel. The Bionic glass narrows until you reach the property, giving a much more polished than previous phones Droid.

The phone is slightly higher than the Thunderbolt, but not so heavy. Not a pair of speakers and a microphone behind the original coating of plastic on the phone to explain that you should not be covered, if you want good quality calls. In addition to this, the phone has all the usual features of the Droid phone. The volume rocker and power button are brighter than normal, almost chrome-plated plastic around in the dark, but the glossy front panel. Separate HDMI and mini-micro-USB ports to give a side-by-side, like the other Motorola phones, which are built Lapdock.

Bionics is not the thinnest phone out there. It is not the lightest either. He claims to have unibody construction and curved glass. It is, however, a phone that feels solid and is built to be supported in his hand, while giving you peace of mind that is unlikely to come out of their reach. As for the design goes, this is probably my favorite of Motorola since they started making Android phones.Performance

LTE Verizon phones so far have been impressive team in its own right, but when it comes to raw power pale in comparrison to many phones that have emerged in recent months, and certainly no match for this we know is in the way. Bionics is the first dual-core mobile LTE line with current devices. Motorola has stuck a 1GHz dual-core processor in bionics - the TI OMAP, which replaced the Tegra 2 - next to 1 GB of RAM. To put the phone next to a large number of tablets Android available is not sufficient to access speeds of LTE certainly puts the phone close enough to the top of the stack of Android. Now that 50% of Americans are connected to the LTE, with major markets to be announced later this month, bionics is primed to bring a new wave of users LTE.

Sitting side by side, it is clear that the processor uses the LTE Bionic experience much better. Content heavy sites faster services like Netflix make the video faster and cleaning devices almost instantly. Bionics is also capable of managing multiple complex processes more quickly, such as streaming music and playing a game of Google. Talk Android 2.3.4 allows Google Video, which works very well in the Bionic well. In general, the power of bionics and the speed at which the aid is very nice, and the team makes sure that the phone remain relevant for some time.

1735 mAh battery is a 1400mAh jump of the Thunderbolt, and Android, combined with 2.3.4 of the battery-saving benefits, the phone will take you through 10 hours a day of LTE is all the time. Wi-Fi, Bionic almost 23 hours of life before he started giving low battery warning at 5%. Although it is clear that the LTE is still a huge battery hog, it's nice to see that manufacturers are using such things as larger batteries to do with it.

The fan boat: Motorola's Android

Verizon is by far the worst when it comes to a huge number of applications that come preinstalled on the Android phone, and bionics is no exception to this rule. Warehouse Android phones, like the Nexus line, with 19 applications installed, most Google applications and markets. Bionic droid applications including 60 on the board. You still have Google Apps, and Verizon has its own suite of applications such as Verizon and video service VzNavigator just updated, but some of them are just simple and bloat. For example, if you're in Surf Videos App social TV viewing, surfing is a cool video, but because it has to be pre-loaded with bionic? All this, Motorola has some of its applications, such as the aggregation of social networking, that come with the theme of Moto phones.

User interface update from Motorola that is no longer called MotoBlur well, but do not really have a name yet, is clearly the result of observation. App box now includes the market button and a window on the right of the honeycomb, and is now paginated as Samsung, although at a more comfortable transition from page to page. Start Menu is running as if each page is a separate panel of the box, as well as the honeycomb screen transitions occur. Everything has a window or move the animation now. If you download the application, or return to the homescreen, the experience is much more animated. The initial login, where you will be prompted to log into your Google account, the spins of the portrait to landscape a nice animation. The whole experience feels much more fluid than previous attempts at Motorola, experience.For creates a much more pleasant all the great things this phone has going for it, the screen completely ruined the experience.

Motorola PenTile QHD screen full of pixels for sure, but does see a still image again, or even read a website of a painful experience. Photos taken at the Bionic look absolutely horrible when you come to see them, simply because everything looks grainy and pixelated, as a result of the screen. If you see a video on the phone and the phone is more than two feet away from you, the video looks like you have a rack on it.

Bionic is more than bright enough even in direct sunlight, and the screen goes dark enough that you are not yourself or other blinding when you go out in a theater. Compared to Thunderbolt, the color intensity Bionic is a bit weak, even if you do not really notice if you place it next to another phone that shows exactly the same.

Final thoughts

I really want to like Bionic. I think it's got great equipment, and is the first Android phone from Motorola that feels good in your hand. I can not wait, because this phone with some accessories that have been informed of this phone, such as lapdock or inductive load.

For $ 299 on a new contract, it is clear that Verizon is glued to raise prices of their high-end phones, which makes it difficult to compare the phone out the door to devices such as sensation or EVO3D. For now, the Verizon Droid Bionic us the most powerful phone in their lineup, as Verizon's LTE network that stretches across the United States, which puts him in a good place to be sold until that the "next big thing" arrives.

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