The Motorola DROID Bionic as we know it is gone. The previously announced super phone was to wow consumers with LTE and dual-core goodness. Unfortunately, Verizon and Motorola have put the brakes on the Bionic to “make it a better consumer device”. Many (ourselves included) thought a few minor hardware changes coupled with waiting for Android 2.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) were the main reasons. But a new benchmark that has popped up on Swedish website, Nena spells a very different, very exciting story. The DROID Bionic got a major hardware upgrade. Instead of “only” an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, the DROID Bionic (according to the benchmark above) now includes TI’s latest OMAP processor (4430 or 4440) which features a very powerful PowerVR SGX 540 GPU.
While we can’t say for certain the exact reasoning behind Motorola’s decision, we’d have to speculate that battery life concerns were one of the more serious concerns. Tegra 2 as efficient as it is still loves to suck down electrons. Ditto for LTE. Combine the two and you’ve got an outlet babysitter in the making. Of course, Motorola could have simply wanted to decimate everything on the market with the “Bionic” name, and as such, delay the device for said hardware change. Either way we’ve very excited.
Stay tuned for more details as they become available…
Source: Nena
Via: Unwired, Droid-Life, IntoMobile
