Pictures tended to be a bit washed out, and colors weren't as rich or accurate as they could have been. In video mode, the camera has a lot of trouble finding its focus and correct ISO, which is a shame, because the p video just doesn't look as good as it should. This is, hands down, the fastest phone on Verizon. The screen is crazy bright. Like most of Moto's high end phones, it actually feels like somebody cared when they put it together. Oh, and it's a phone, so I should mention that call quality is excellent.
You can get some serious talk time out of this bad boy—made it past 10 hours when LTE was off, which is among the best CDMA devices ever. Also, Google Talk video chat is awesome-I was able to video chat over 4G with my buddy on a computer logged into his Gmail and it was nice and smooth. The PenTile screen, bright as it may be, hurts my eyes, with grainy, grainy pixels everywhere. The new Moto skin is unwieldy and messes with things that weren't broken-I shouldn't have to install a launcher replacement to make my phone's software functional and attractive.
The Webtop Laptop. This thing really just shouldn't exist. The hardware on the outside is nice and ultrabook-like, but as soon as you open it up things fall apart. The keyboard is cheap and awful and the track pad with its buttons that constantly stick is unusable. Motorola always seems to have an edge over the competition in this department, and this device is no different. The earpiece sounds fantastic, while speakerphone calls were crystal clear. In addition to the previously mentioned 8-megapixel camera on the back, the Bionic has a VGA front-facing shooter.
The rear camera is actually a very capable still shot-taker when you can get it to focus, but that can be a little tricky. As far as auto-focus lenses on phones go, this seems to be one of the slower models. On the video front, the Bionic is one of the few phones on the market that can shoot full p video. In my testing, the results were certainly passable — and if you absolutely must have full HD video from your phone, the Bionic will seem like a very attractive choice.
I nabbed around 11 hours with the device switching between Wi-Fi and 4G, doing a moderate amount of downloading and browsing with the occasional phone call. Performance on the device, on the other hand, felt incredibly snappy. Game frame rates were high, moving in and out of applications was almost instantaneous, and webpages loaded and scrolled without hesitation. Compared with even recent devices like the Photon 4G on Sprint, the Bionic seems remarkably fast and responsive.
The device scored a respectable In browser testing, the Bionic pulled a At just two or three bars of service in Brooklyn, I was able to pull down fairly consistent speeds of between 8Mbps and 10Mbps, and the upstream was robust at around 3Mbps and nearly 4Mbps.
In the Bionic version, the homescreen looks similar to most Android layouts, but gains a persistent four-icon nav at the bottom of the screen. Three of those icons can be swapped out for your favorite apps, while the rightmost button takes you to the application launcher. Most of the cosmetic changes are solid in the Bionic, particularly a new Honeycomb-like "target grid" you see when you move elements around your homescreen.
Color looked good, and the microphone did a good job of handling audio. When you connect to the webtop dock, you can access the full Firefox browser as well as a slew of specially made productivity apps. Certain apps such as Angry Birds can run at full screen on a larger display. The build quality is excellent, the software is clean and intuitive, and the addition of ZumoCast is terrific.
The display, however, is a big disappointment. The overall speed of the Droid Bionic is almost enough to make up for that shortcoming, but the high price makes the phone a tough sell. It might be more fair to extend such an offer to 3G Droid owners or, at the very least, to owners of the original Droid. Pros Assortment of entertainment and business features Dual-core and Verizon 4G is a speedy combination Lots of compatible accessories HD p video capture.
Cons Call quality is uneven Pricey Display disappoints. On the top are a 3. A front-facing VGA camera is above the display. On the back is the camera with a single LED flash. As we mentioned earlier, you can purchase several different accessories to take advantage of the Droid Bionic's Webtop application: a laptop dock, the HD Station, or a Webtop adapter.
The laptop dock is the most complete package as it combines a screen and keyboard, along with a couple of USB ports. The HD Station lets you charge the handset and it too has a couple of USB ports and Bluetooth capabilities so you can use a mouse and keyboard, but you have to provide them yourself.
The Webtop adapter can only be used with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard. With the HD Station and the Webtop adapter, you have to provide your own display. Other optional accessories include a car dock and a normal charging dock. All of these accessories are only for the Droid Bionic and cannot be used with other phones. Features Clearly the most compelling reason to get a Droid Bionic is that it combines two speedy technologies in one handset: a dual-core processor plus Verizon's 4G LTE. As we mentioned earlier, navigation certainly felt much snappier than single-core handsets.
With most handsets, this can result in slow page loading on Flash-heavy Web sites, but not so with the Droid Bionic. We loaded up our full CNET. We were actually able to play Flash videos directly in the browser, with absolutely zero buffering time. We also managed to scroll through Web pages and switch between different tabs without any lag or hesitation.
In short, the marriage between the dual-core processor and 4G LTE is a very good one indeed. You can also use the Droid Bionic as a mobile hot spot for up to five devices with the activation of a Mobile Broadband plan. Other features include a speakerphone, speed dial, voice commands, conference calling, Skype Mobile, and text and multimedia messaging. We're also not pleased with a slight shutter lag--if we moved even a little bit, the image would appear a touch blurry.
Still, the results impressed us. Photo quality was pretty good. Images looked tack-sharp, and colors were accurate. The Droid Bionic is also the first 4G LTE handset to have p video recording capabilities, which results in crystal-clear videos that can play back on big high-definition TV screens.
We're still testing the video quality at the moment, and we will update this review with that information once we have it. As we mentioned, the Droid Bionic ships with Android 2.
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