The challenge
You might be hearing about Motorola Droid Bionic since January this year. But the smartphone just landed in the market early this month only. Motorola’s much-touted CES 2011-announced Droid Bionic had an unprecedented delay in its release date over last several months. The company announced the device boasting as the first dual core 4G LTE smartphone on Verizon Wireless. As well, Motorola introduced Droid Bionic as an iPhone killer as any other Android smartphone maker used to claim.
Can Droid Bionic be a real threat to iPhone 4 that mercilessly dominates global smartphone markets? Indeed, Droid Bionic has been spotlighted for many of its grand features. More than everything, it is one of the first 4G LTE-enabled dual core smartphone in the market. This article makes a comparison between Droid Bionic, one of top Android smartphones of the year and iPhone 4, of course, the great Google Android rival.
Display
Apple iPhone 4 has its famous 3.5-inch display. The so-called Retina Display of iPhone 4 offers 640 x 960 pixel resolution. Motorola Droid Bionic has a large 4.3-inch LCD display, but the device falls short to iPhone 4 with a resolution of only 540 x 960 pixels. According to analysts, there is no any smartphone display technology that performs better than iPhone 4’s Retina Display.
Winner: Doubtlessly, when the display quality comes into debate, iPhone 4 is almost indomitable to all other smartphones including Droid Bionic.
Operating System
Motorola Droid Bionic plays on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the latest version of Google Android OS. Motorola delayed release date of Droid Bionic from April to September 2011 with a goal to launch some hardware modifications so that it can run the latest Android version on the device. Droid Bionic was announced to play on Android 2.2 Froyo at CES 2011. Meanwhile, Apple iPhone 4 is featured with iOS 4.2, the most recent iOS version. The device will also support Apple’s much-awaited imminent iOS 5.
Winner: To find a winner of two devices that run on Android 2.3 and iOS 4.2 is not a simple task. Both the software items are the hottest of their kinds, and indeed highly feature-rich. Anyway, leaving the criterion to judge a winner to the popularity of the platform, we can simply declare iPhone 4 as the winner.
Camera
A phone without camera may no longer attract customers. Apple iPhone 4 mounts a 5-megapixel rear camera. Motorola Droid Bionic features an 8-megapixel back camera. Both the devices’ cameras are capable to record High Definition video at 720p resolution.
Winner: Motorola Droid Bionic wins over iPhone 4 as the former has an 8-megapixel camera.
Processing speed
Motorola Droid Bionic, as mentioned above, is one of the first dual core smartphones. The smartphone sports a dual core 1GHz Cortex-A9 SoC processor and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. At the same time, Apple iPhone 4 just has an A8 single-core processor that cloaks at 1GHz and 512MB of RAM.
Winner: Needles to say Motorola Droid Bionic has won a crucial command over Apple iPhone 4 thanks to its much-touted dual core processor and 1GB RAM.
The verdict:
A comparison between Apple iPhone 4 and Motorola Droid Bionic is breathtaking. Droid Bionic has some advantages over iPhone 4 in several aspects especially in performance speed, camera resolution and display screen size. In realty, Droid Bionic is a smartphone manufactured almost one year after iPhone 4. So the chances to get highly sophisticated components are higher. Apple launched iPhone 4 in July 2010. Amazingly, still now the device is making buzz in technology markets across the world. Therefore, you can now decide which of Apple iPhone 4 or Motorola Droid Bionic is worth for your cash. If you go for an iPhone 4, just wait a few more weeks. Apple is about to surface out more advanced next version of its smartphone iPhone 5.