The next Droid smartphones coming from Verizon will be the Droid 3 and Droid Bionic. A benchmark test showed how fast the Droid 3 will be, and new rumors surfaced about the Droid Bionic release date.
The Droid 3 is essentially a Verizon-branded Motorola Milestone 3 with a very fast processor. It's faster than the LG Optimus 2X and HTC Sensation 4G, even though it has the same processor as the LG Optimus 3D (31) and is slightly slower (at 26.7) and over double the speed of the Droid 2.
The Droid 3 has Texas Instruments' OMAP 4430 processor and PowerVR SGX 540 GPU.
Specs of the Droid 3 include a 4" 960 x 540 qHD touchscreen, an 8MP
camera, a 5-row QWERTY keyboard, HDMI-out port, a front-facing
camera, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, MotoBlur, GPS and a
microSD card slot. Although an official release date has not been set,
some leaked documents suggested a July 7 release date.
Some believe that the Droid 3 will be released before the Droid Bionic. The latest rumor we saw from unnamed Verizon sources claimed that the Droid Bionic would be released later than July. Other rumors suggest that the delay of the Droid Bionic is spurred by making it work with a laptop dock.
The Droid Bionic is expected to have a 4.5" qHD touchscreen, Android 2.3.4, a MotoBlur-style 3D home screen
carousel, connections to a laptop dock, possible GSM radio (for world
access), a 4.5" touchscreen, a 1750mAh battery, HDMI-out 1080p connection, a front-facing VGA webcam
8MP camera, 512MB RAM, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi,
Bluetooth and GPS.
Currently, the only 4G LTE smartphones from Verizon Wireless are the Verizon Awesome 4G-Threesome (LG Revolution, Samsung Droid Charge, and HTC ThunderBolt), none of which have dual-core processors.
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