Motorola Droid Bionic Joins the Droid Family!

[Arkbird]

That is exactly what I would like to know also. People are picking a choosing sources as "confirmation" of one having and the other not, when there are countless amounts of videos where the demonstrator says the Atrix has 1 GB DDR2 RAM (not to say this fact). Guess we'll have to wait and see.

The people saying the Atrix does not have DDR2 RAM may wish to check out the following:

http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Fact-Sheets/Motorola-ATRIX-4G-Fact-Sheet-353b.aspx

Memory 1GB LP DDR2 RAM

Thank you very much. I don't even know how the mix up started in the first place. People are so desperate to find a fault with the phone (in comparison to the Bionic), they started making things up? They are both great phones in their own way, but don't make stuff up. Next time I use the Atrix, I should check if Android recognizes the whole 1 GB instead of this half and half business I hear people talking about also.

Yeah I would also like to know more about the half and half thing. But the Bionic is going to be a great phone.

And when did the Droid X's bootloader get rooted?

 

[mjforte]

The Droid X has been rooted for a long time now. The bootloader is still locked though so no custom kernels.

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[aRsTwiX]

I think a lot of people are overacting/not being logical about the differences between Atrix and Bionic.

A) I think AT&T needed an extra selling point (for several reasons), and probably offered more for the Atrix

B) The docking station is basically a legal way around tethering. It's less of an issue for AT&T which has a 2gig cap, but I doubt that VZW was excited at all, to put it mildly, when they saw that capability.

I wouldn't say it's tethering... it's not giving your PC internet connection from your phone it's basically putting your phone on your laptop (browser on laptop screen, windowed Android).

Sharing the 1GB memory on the Atrix isn't really a rumor... You will never see two operating systems not share memory equally (dual booting is something completely different).

Lastly, when I said people were overreacting, I meant about the memory differences. People see 1 GB on the Atrix and 512 MB on the Bionic and automatically think the Bionic sucks because it has half the memory. They don't even research to find out it runs two operating systems while the Bionic runs one.

I'm definitely going to get this phone. I don't need a $50+ laptop dock for Android and Firefox.

 

[damstr]

Wow this looks like a worth replacement to my Droid X. Then again I literally JUST rooted it and put the Apex rom on there so I should be good for another couple months.

After using the giant screen on the X I don't think I could switch to a smaller screen.

 

[Preach2k]

I think a lot of people are overacting/not being logical about the differences between Atrix and Bionic.

A) I think AT&T needed an extra selling point (for several reasons), and probably offered more for the Atrix

B) The docking station is basically a legal way around tethering. It's less of an issue for AT&T which has a 2gig cap, but I doubt that VZW was excited at all, to put it mildly, when they saw that capability.

I wouldn't say it's tethering... it's not giving your PC internet connection from your phone it's basically putting your phone on your laptop (browser on laptop screen, windowed Android).

Sharing the 1GB memory on the Atrix isn't really a rumor... You will never see two operating systems not share memory equally (dual booting is something completely different).

Lastly, when I said people were overreacting, I meant about the memory differences. People see 1 GB on the Atrix and 512 MB on the Bionic and automatically think the Bionic sucks because it has half the memory. They don't even research to find out it runs two operating systems while the Bionic runs one.

I'm definitely going to get this phone. I don't need a $50+ laptop dock for Android and Firefox.

I agree with you totally!!!!

 

[Preach2k]

While I was at the Verizon store in the mall today... The store rep told me that the Atrix is coming to Verizon by late 3rdQ or 4thQ.. This was the 2nd time I heard this the 1st time was by Phone Scholar in one of his videos and now the Store rep... Now this is having me think should I wait for the Atrix coming to Verizon or get the Bionic... How much I am suffering with my Storm 1 I do not think I can last until the Atrix..:icon_eek:

 

[royolpunk]

While I was at the Verizon store in the mall today... The store rep told me that the Atrix is coming to Verizon by late 3rdQ or 4thQ.. This was the 2nd time I heard this the 1st time was by Phone Scholar in one of his videos and now the Store rep... Now this is having me think should I wait for the Atrix coming to Verizon or get the Bionic... How much I am suffering with my Storm 1 I do not think I can last until the Atrix..:icon_eek:

Yeah just go and get the bionic. The only true difference is that the atrix has twice the ram that the bionic has and a older? Version of motoblur.

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[jroc]

I got a funny feeling the Bionic is gonna be the Atrix, it will just be named the Bionic. If the Droid X2 n Droid 3 does come out soon, and the Bionic gets pushed back it would make sense.

 

[Varking]

This will be my new phone since I haven't had a new one since Christmas 2009.

 

[Droid101]

While I was at the Verizon store in the mall today... The store rep told me that the Atrix is coming to Verizon by late 3rdQ or 4thQ.. This was the 2nd time I heard this the 1st time was by Phone Scholar in one of his videos and now the Store rep... Now this is having me think should I wait for the Atrix coming to Verizon or get the Bionic... How much I am suffering with my Storm 1 I do not think I can last until the Atrix..:icon_eek:

Go with the Bionic there isn't a real difference between that and the atrix except the laptop capabilities. Plus the Bionic is early Q2 why wait till Q4 when you can have the same thing sooner.

 

[Loooney2ns]

I still don't understand why there are 2 phones in the first place. They are so similar, they could have been the same, even with 2 different names. This would have saved Motorola millions of dollars in production costs, as well as reducing the number of accessories they have to produce. It had to be pressure from one or both of the phone companies. Motorola would have had twice as many potential customers for the laptop accessory, me included. I would have sold my laptop. I won't go to AT&T and I'm not waiting until Q3-Q4 for a new phone.

 

[kodiak799]

It had to be pressure from one or both of the phone companies. Motorola would have had twice as many potential customers for the laptop accessory, me included.

Maybe, but the Bionic is LTE and the Atrix is not. Looks to me like mfrs are making trade-offs to keep phones in that sweet spot of $200-$250 contract pricing.

I think the Atrix may have missed the boat a little. There are tablets that snap into a keyboard to basically become a netbook, and so that's what the Atrix should have been. Maybe not there, yet, since the lapdock or whatever you call it basically only does browsing and some cloud stuff.

My guess in 2012 we see the 3-in-1 smartphone device and that will be a real game changer. $300 contract for the phone and maybe another $300 for a tablet and keyboard and you really have something.

 

[wingdo]

Well now it gets all interesting for me. My AT&T Account Manager is tempting me to go back to the Dark Side by offering a free Atrix when they come out.

 

[bhall238]

I think a lot of people are overacting/not being logical about the differences between Atrix and Bionic.

A) I think AT&T needed an extra selling point (for several reasons), and probably offered more for the Atrix

B) The docking station is basically a legal way around tethering. It's less of an issue for AT&T which has a 2gig cap, but I doubt that VZW was excited at all, to put it mildly, when they saw that capability.

I wouldn't say it's tethering... it's not giving your PC internet connection from your phone it's basically putting your phone on your laptop (browser on laptop screen, windowed Android).

Sharing the 1GB memory on the Atrix isn't really a rumor... You will never see two operating systems not share memory equally (dual booting is something completely different).

Lastly, when I said people were overreacting, I meant about the memory differences. People see 1 GB on the Atrix and 512 MB on the Bionic and automatically think the Bionic sucks because it has half the memory. They don't even research to find out it runs two operating systems while the Bionic runs one.

I'm definitely going to get this phone. I don't need a $50+ laptop dock for Android and Firefox.

I read somewhere around $150 for the Atrix laptop dock. Anyone else see that or was I dreaming?

 

[aRsTwiX]

While I was at the Verizon store in the mall today... The store rep told me that the Atrix is coming to Verizon by late 3rdQ or 4thQ.. This was the 2nd time I heard this the 1st time was by Phone Scholar in one of his videos and now the Store rep... Now this is having me think should I wait for the Atrix coming to Verizon or get the Bionic... How much I am suffering with my Storm 1 I do not think I can last until the Atrix..:icon_eek:

I asked the store rep at Verizon and he looked clueless when I asked about the Bionic.

I would say if you can live without a laptop dock buy the Bionic.

I know how you feel about upgrading. I've been using this joke of a touchscreen called a LG Chocolate Touch and am going to hop on the smartphone bandwagon as it becomes available.

I hate the Storms though. Was thinking about getting the Storm 2 til I picked it up and played with it and the 4 corner buttons were just weird...