Gizmo | Droid Bionic flexes muscles – Louisville Courier

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Motorola’s new Droid Bionic arrives with an considerable resume. With a dual-core 1GHz processor and 1 gigabyte of inner memory, it’s a many absolute mobile phone so distant to take a line on Verizon’s high-speed 4G LTE network.

In fact, it’s got adequate flesh that it can morph into a laptop mechanism or a home media server. Motorola sells one wharf that gives a Bionic an 11.6-inch screen, a full-sized keyboard and a Firefox browser. Another wharf connects a phone to a high-definition radio with USB ports for a rodent or keyboard.

The Bionic’s camera also tops a charts with stills during 8 megapixels and video during 1080p. And a Mobile Hotspot choice lets tablets, computers, ebook readers and other Wi-Fi inclination join a float on a 4G highway.

I took a Bionic along on a new automobile outing to California, where it served as a primary navigation device. We used Google Maps to get trade reports and turn-by-turn directions. The phone valid to be faster and some-more arguable than a Garmin navigator.

The phone also delivered streaming music, podcasts, and a live promote of a Colts diversion streamed from a radio hire in Indianapolis. When that got too depressing, we used Motorola’s Zumocast app to play song files stored on my mechanism behind home.

I’m flattering certain we also done a few phone calls with a Bionic, though these days that seems so incidental.

The Bionic costs $299 with a two-year Verizon contract. The Lapdock will set we behind another $300.