Bionic's 'coming soon' release date sparks Android fan zeal

07.07.2011
Summer smartphone releases have become as commonplace as new summer movies. But the movie industry does a much better job of scheduling and keeping a definitive release date.

Motorola Mobility's new Droid Bionic smartphone as shown in January.

Case in point: the Motorola Droid Bionic was with it would be available by the end of June.

The Droid Bionic device remains unavailable in July, and according to evidence unearthed by it likely won't appear until Aug. 4. The news site posted an unidentified screen shot that referred (correctly) to July 14 as the store appearance of the and then listed Aug. 4 as the start of Droid Bionic sales.

Meanwhile, an unreleased advertising flyer from retailer Best Buy, which surfaced on the tech news site, stated that the Droid Bionic is "coming soon." The flyer described the device as an "all-powerful, unstoppable machine" with a "superfast dual core processor" with dual camera video chat capabilities. The flyer also said the device can pull files wirelessly from desktop systems, and can be used as a TV remote control.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha said the Droid Bionic would run the 1 GHz dual core Nvidia 2 processor. On April 19, Motorola announced that it was taking time for a hardware and software redesign and that the would launch "in the summer."