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Bionic Specs from Moto Website

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john30308

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You may have seen that yesterday Motorola briefly had up on their website a specifications chart for both the Bionic and Droid 3. There were two things that I don't fully understand:

1 - MEDIA FORMAT
The Droid 3 listed "Android core media formats, WMA 10 decoder, WMV 9 decoder, H.264 encoder, MPEG-4 encoder".

The Bionic listed only: Android core media formats, WMA 9 decoder, WMV 9 decoder.

Does that mean that the Bionic won't play MPEG-4 video??

2 - GPS
Both the Droid 3 and Bionic listed "Assisted GPS, E-Compass, Simultaneous GPS", but the D3 also added "Standalone GPS w/internal antenna". The Bionic did not have it listed.

What's the significance of this?

Thanks
 
encoder means it creates audio / video in said format. So, lack of the encoder means it cannot create thos formats, but it should still be able to play them since I thnk those are part of Android.

May be an omission, or it may mean that the D3 can do GPS *without* cell tower triangulation to assist it to locate you whereas the Bionic will always use cell tower triangulation to assist, with no option to go GPS alone. I think it was an omission, as 1) the page had just been put up and 2) it's now gone, right?
 
How can the Bionic be .3 inch bigger diagonally than the D3 and still have the same pixel density and resolution? :confused:
 
I'd agree, except the Photon also has matching specs to the Bionic, so you're saying *both* sets of specs are wrong?
 
It is very common for phones/tablets/monitors to have the same DPI/PPI with varying sized screens. For example, I use a 27" Viewsonic Monitor @ 1080P and there are several 24" monitors with 1080P. In fact, there are several 24" monitors with HIGHER resolution than 1080P. Same can be said of televisions and it's no different in phones. QHD (if I am not mistaken) is a set resolution. The size of the screen does not matter. If labeled QHD, they will all have the same resolution.

QHD is among the highest out there right now. I have it on my X2 (4.3"). People complain about it, but I don't have any issues with it myself. Only iPhone 4 is better (Retna Display) and the upcoming HTC Vigor with a supposed 720P screen (1024x768 I think).

**EDIT** Opps. 1280x720 for 720P
 
dmodert66 said:
It is very common for phones/tablets/monitors to have the same DPI/PPI with varying sized screens. For example, I use a 27" Viewsonic Monitor @ 1080P and there are several 24" monitors with 1080P. In fact, there are several 24" monitors with HIGHER resolution than 1080P. Same can be said of televisions and it's no different in phones. QHD (if I am not mistaken) is a set resolution. The size of the screen does not matter. If labeled QHD, they will all have the same resolution.

QHD is among the highest out there right now. I have it on my X2 (4.3"). People complain about it, but I don't have any issues with it myself. Only iPhone 4 is better (Retna Display) and the upcoming HTC Vigor with a supposed 720P screen (1024x768 I think).

**EDIT** Opps. 1280x720 for 720P
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You seem to be mixing up DPI with resolution. It's not the same thing. You can have the same resolution with different screen size, but then DPI number should change as it's number of pixels per length. For the same resolution, smaller screen will have higher DPI number. That's why iPhone4 has high DPI called retina.
 
Right....and now some of the 'blurry-cam' pics making the rounds the past day where the Bionic is next to the Charge suggests the phone may be 4.5 inches. So despite what I'm reading to the contrary, we really don't know with confidence all the particulars of this phone.
 
"teardown of your dreams?" What is it that people were supposedly expecting that's a disappointment based on that tiny bit of information??
 
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