Redesigned Motorola DROID BIONIC pictures surface

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Motorola took the wraps off of the DROID BIONIC back during CES 2011, shortly thereafter announced that it had delayed the device until summer. Now, the first shots of the newly redesigned DROID BIONIC are beginning to surface. The images show the device has — what appears to be — a new version of Motorola’s MOTOBLUR user interface. We assume most of the other specs remain the same: the phone clearly shows an 8-megapixel camera capable of recording 1080p video, it has a 4.3-inch qHD display, and support for Verizon’s 4G LTE network. Unfortunately there’s still no word on a possible release date, but let’s hope the BIONIC’s battery life is better than Verizon’s other 4G phones. Hit the jump for two more images.

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  • Clarence Johnson

    fragmentation. YAY!

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      Fragmentation is more choice and competition which is good for the consumer.

      • Steve Jenkins

        hmmm….there is something inherently wrong with that thought process when it comes to the implementation of software, but you just make it sound so damn inspiring and working class it cant be wrong! 

      • Proexodus

        Not until your phone gets outdated and out of style the very next week

      • ChocoTaco369

        That’s EVERYTHING in the marketplace.  Have you ever bought a computer before?  How about a car stereo?  A TV?  EVERYTHING you buy is outdated a month later, so why should a phone be any different?  Suddenly, consumer choice is a bad thing, and suddenly it’s worse to have frequent choice than being stuck with the same outdated design for 4 years?  You Apple fans are the vegans of the consumer electronics world – you’ll say anything or tell any lie to promote a product you have no stake in, even at the stake of others.  Why?  It doesn’t make any sense.

        Fragmentation is not an issue and it never was.  How many versions of Windows are out there?  Yet it is still the #1 platform by leaps and bounds, has just put out the best OS it ever has to date and there are nearly no compatibility issues.  The beauty of Android is it actually gives the consumers a choice and allows you to express your own individuality.  My Droid X is nearly a year old, yet I still love my phone.  There may be “better, faster” phones available now, but I still like it better than all the others because it suits my individual styling – something Apple fans will never be able to say.  They are just “stuck with” the same product as everyone else.  From what I’ve seen, the Droid Bionic may be the device I hop to in the future because it has 4G LTE capabilities, which is the only feature I want that my Droid X doesn’t have.

    • Jayhammy

      And fragmentation will no longer be an issue with the next version of Android 3.2, Ice Cream Sandwich. Google’s new OS will automatically adjust to all kinds of hardware, screen sizes and resolutions, processors, and more. By the time iOS comes out, Android 3.2 will be upon us. One step forward for Apple. Two steps forward for Android. Apple just keeps falling farther behind.

      • Jayhammy

        sorry, “by the time iOS 5 comes out…”

      • Anonymous

        I’ve never heard Ice Cream Sandwich referred to as version 3.2 before; if anything, 2.4 is what I’ve heard.

      • Anonymous

        You do mean, half a staggered step forward for Apple (right)??

      • Anonymous

        Nobody ask you. But thanks for taking time out from sucking android (_)_)////////D to comment

      • Steve Hillshire

        @macboy15:disqus Its you that’s commenting once again in an Android topic.  You troll more in Android articles than any fandroid in Apple articles.  If you dedicated as much time to getting out of your basement as posting in Android articles, that pale skin might just get tan.

      • Anonymous

        @MacMamma15

        Gee, your penis looks broken (just like your post or that phone of yours’ that almost does, well, not much).

        I bet your entire life is broken, right? Don’t be afraid, you can tell the truth we won’t judge you; cross my heart and hope to die, stick my penis in your eye.

      • Scott

        For a Fandroid, you’re not very smart. I say that because Ice Cream Sandwhich isn’t coming out until Q4 and iOS 5 will be out this fall, meaning it will be out before ICS. Also, lets keep in mind, that only the Nexus phones will have ICS and it will be many months before other Android phones get the update. However, all iPhones will get iOS 5 on the day it’s released. 

    • Andy Gipson

      All you apple fans talk about fragmentation but android is growing leaps and bounds past all other OS’s…..get over it….

      • Anonymous

        Leaps and bounds in what exactly? Putting out 5 phones a months with 4-5 different os’s and 4 different ui’s, specs like the htc thunderbolt’s shitty 8 mp camera that takes grainy and noisy pictures. Please tell me the leaps and bounds you speak of can’t wait.

      • Anonymous

        He means the ‘leaps and bounds’ over your rotted flashless vAgiNa.

  • Anonymous

    4.5 inch actually

  • Securitywiz

    Maybe a cdma version being announced at the Sprint / Motorola announcement June 9th?

  • Anonymous

    Well, Motorola… have you locked the bootloader, or have you decided that you want my money?

    • Josh Rabinowitz

      I hope they want my money, qHD WANT!

    • Anonymous

      The unlocked Bootloader is only step one.  Step two is where they make motoblur a REMOVABLE option.  Then I would be happy to buy moto.  I liked the build quality and design, just cannot stand the blur.  After my moto cliq I made the decision that I would not buy moto again until they made blur free or blur removable phones.  New blur is still blur.

      • Anonymous

        I want the unlocked bootloader so I can put Cyanogenmod on there. There’s no conceivable way that I use a Blur phone again. It’s just not… optimized.

      • Anonymous

        And a launcher app is a launcher app.  If you don’t like blur just install a launcher and it goes away and you essentially have the vanilla experience.  

        Everyone knows this.

      • Anonymous

        Just to play devil’s advocate for a second… just because you don’t see Blur doesn’t mean it’s not in the background, running services, using resources, and negatively impacting your battery time.

      • StrungOut420

        Why would MotoBlur need to be a REMOVABLE option? With an unlocked bootloader, you can run any ROM you want, be it a full-blur, partial-blur or no-blur ROM. In fact, on my Droid X, I already run any ROM I want (which happens to be as close to AOSP Gingerbread as possible), but unlocking the booloader would allow me to take full advantage of the processor and let me overclock. Oh wait, I can do that already too… Why do I still need an unlocked bootloader?

        Don’t ostracize a company who produces a superior hardware product. Hack the sh*t out of it and make it run how YOU want… 

      • Anonymous

        Dude, I felt the same way about my CRAPPPPPPPY DROID X; the Gingerbread update made all the difference and now it’s not CRAPPY anymore.
        I went back to it after the TBolt simply because I missed the HDMI feature and it wasn’t as delicate. The TBolt would have been great if Verizon had been a bit more proactive about the battery’s mAh, included HDMI, excluded bloatware, and made Skype Video available at launch (like they marketed the phone before its’ release)!
        Overall, I like this damn thing more and more with Gingerbread; they fixed the “Copy & Paste” function, selecting text is easier, multiple GMAIL accounts now sync automatically as they should, virtual keyboard no longer randomly inserts text when I hit the backspace key, the UI with Gingerbread is also greatly improved and much more sophisticated (you know, like what the iPhone attempts to be).

    • Rex_D

      The more people who DON’T buy it because of a locked boot-loader means more people who won’t have the same phone as me.

  • Aaronagis

    now only if they would release it on sprint so i can have a phone better than my evo to upgrade to…

  • Anonymous

    It’s been reported elsewhere that this is a 4.5 inch screen, and purported shots of it show it having webtop, which is very cool

  • http://profiles.google.com/kuntamouse kunta mouse

    need more pictures! wheres the 4G lte logo..? 1080p +1 nice!

    • Rex_D

      There are more pics on the source’s website… BGR is not the source

  • Anonymous

    I think the Bionic stole the Xoom’s LTE radio. 

    • http://twitter.com/ChazClout ChazClout

      ROFL!

      You made me spit out my tea!

    • Anonymous

      You mean the lte you get after you send it back to motorola

  • Anonymous

    HTC is unlocking their bootloader. Samsung actually gave a Galaxy S II to the Cyanogenmod dev team. Why does Motorola think fighting the most passionate Android users is a good idea?
     

  • Tmo

    Why would anyone buy the droid x 2 with this guy coming out?

  • Beddaman

    So looking forward to this new vehicle & getting out of this old continuum

  • http://twitter.com/WTGeorge Bill George

    I thought, at CES the camera was announced to have dual LED flash? Did the redesign include reductions in functionality, or is this a photoshpped presentation of the phone?

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