Droid Bionic heading towards Verizon

[pc747]

well that ends the debate cuz the powerpoint did not say 1ghz processor... looks as if moto needs to fix their website.

 

[OneTenderRebel]

Everyone keeps talking about not wanting this phone because it has a locked bootloader but I think people are going to be in for a world of upset when there won't be another phone released truly as unlocked as the D1.

Truly unlocked Nexus one &Nexus S. Thats unlocked.

true, I was speaking more of Verizon though.

 

[pc747]

[video=youtube;ChWPIHjKld0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChWPIHjKld0]YouTube - Motorola Droid Bionic And Xoom Tablet CES 2011[/video]

 

[UltraDroid]

Everyone keeps talking about not wanting this phone because it has a locked bootloader but I think people are going to be in for a world of upset when there won't be another phone released truly as unlocked as the D1.

It's not a locked bootloader that deters me - there are workarounds for that. It's the booby-traps, like the eFuse, which amount to criminal sabotage that make me refuse to have anything to do with a Motorola product again.

-Mike

 

[altimax98]

i just watched that video from engadget and he says something about supporting 'smart' docks... i wonder if even with the bigger screen it will support the other phones laptopdock and stuff.

NVM, i just checked the HDMI and USB ports on the phones and they are reversed from eachother

The ATRIX is on the bottom, the BIONIC is on the top

 

[n0yxl]

Everyone keeps talking about not wanting this phone because it has a locked bootloader but I think people are going to be in for a world of upset when there won't be another phone released truly as unlocked as the D1.

I agree but as mentioned before the locked bootloader on recent Moto phones has been a "feature" of the tI soc. Hopefully Tegra will be easier to get around.

Gawd, I hope you're right! I will be have to be "stuck" with my D1 otherwise... :biggrin:

 

[OneTenderRebel]

Everyone keeps talking about not wanting this phone because it has a locked bootloader but I think people are going to be in for a world of upset when there won't be another phone released truly as unlocked as the D1.

It's not a locked bootloader that deters me - there are workarounds for that. It's the booby-traps, like the eFuse, which amount to criminal sabotage that make me refuse to have anything to do with a Motorola product again.

-Mike

I hear ya on that one, but has anyone confirmed an eFuse in any of the moto devices? I am not saying they aren't there, I just have never heard of anyone having an issue with an eFuse.

 

[jdlfg]

Everyone keeps talking about not wanting this phone because it has a locked bootloader but I think people are going to be in for a world of upset when there won't be another phone released truly as unlocked as the D1.

It's not a locked bootloader that deters me - there are workarounds for that. It's the booby-traps, like the eFuse, which amount to criminal sabotage that make me refuse to have anything to do with a Motorola product again.

Correct. It took awhile to get the HTC Incredible but it was done and can be done unless they pull some nonsense like efuse. I still want the Bionic but will be buying an HTC Thunderbolt as well. Who wants to wait till Q2.

 

[ipawd1]

Great. Now I'm over here looking at my Droid X saying "What have you done for me lately". smh.

 

[Garemlin]

It has Blur. A new version of Blur.


from DroidLife hands-on:

We have video on the way, so that you can all get a full look at this device and its new version of Blur which actually impressed us a little. It has a few new tweaks to the UI that we haven’t seen on any Android device before, but only real hands-on time will prove if it’s worth keeping active.

 

[ipawd1]

It has Blur. A new version of Blur.


from DroidLife hands-on:

We have video on the way, so that you can all get a full look at this device and its new version of Blur which actually impressed us a little. It has a few new tweaks to the UI that we haven’t seen on any Android device before, but only real hands-on time will prove if it’s worth keeping active.

I called it.

Locked Bootloader
Blur
512MB Ram.

There's always something. smh.

 

[deputc26]

Anyone else notice the cool rotation animation in Engadget's hand's on video? I've always liked the way iOS did that, I hope this is going to be a standard feature for Android too.

 

[UltraDroid]

Everyone keeps talking about not wanting this phone because it has a locked bootloader but I think people are going to be in for a world of upset when there won't be another phone released truly as unlocked as the D1.

It's not a locked bootloader that deters me - there are workarounds for that. It's the booby-traps, like the eFuse, which amount to criminal sabotage that make me refuse to have anything to do with a Motorola product again.

-Mike

I hear ya on that one, but has anyone confirmed an eFuse in any of the moto devices? I am not saying they aren't there, I just have never heard of anyone having an issue with an eFuse.

Oh I had a real big issue with the little surprise package I found in my Droid X, but I'm not going to rehash it again. I've recounted my issues with Motorola over a number of threads, and won't take up space here going over it again. The problem, and the eFuse is real.

-Mike

 

[cereal killer]

It has Blur. A new version of Blur.


from DroidLife hands-on:

We have video on the way, so that you can all get a full look at this device and its new version of Blur which actually impressed us a little. It has a few new tweaks to the UI that we haven’t seen on any Android device before, but only real hands-on time will prove if it’s worth keeping active.

I called it.

Locked Bootloader
Blur
512MB Ram.

There's always something. smh.

Ugh... It's not 512 mb of ram
Sent from my Droid

 

[OneTenderRebel]

It's not a locked bootloader that deters me - there are workarounds for that. It's the booby-traps, like the eFuse, which amount to criminal sabotage that make me refuse to have anything to do with a Motorola product again.

-Mike

I hear ya on that one, but has anyone confirmed an eFuse in any of the moto devices? I am not saying they aren't there, I just have never heard of anyone having an issue with an eFuse.

Oh I had a real big issue with the little surprise package I found in my Droid X, but I'm not going to rehash it again. I've recounted my issues with Motorola over a number of threads, and won't take up space here going over it again. The problem, and the eFuse is real.

-Mike

dang, again I am not saying they aren't real. I have never taken the time to read about them because I have the D1 so I truly have no idea what they do. I mean I know what they are supposed to do but have never read about anyone have something happen because of them.