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Droid Bionic: Coming Soon to Best Buy?

 & Sara Yin Junior software analyst

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A Best Buy flyer for the long-delayed Motorola Droid Bionic has hit the Interwebs, courtesy of This Is My Next.

The flyer (below, click to enlarge) is sparse on details. Like the Droid X2, the Bionic doubles as a TV remote control with HDMI mirror mode support. The device also gives you wireless access to your computer's files and has dual cameras for video chatting. As previously reported, it will be a dual-core device.

Droid Bionic best buy flyer Motorola said at this year's CES that the 4G smartphone would be released in the second quarter, but that ended in June. Then rumors surfaced that the Bionic was on the chopping block to make way for the slightly more powerful Motorola Atrix, despite a leaked product timeline from Costco showing a May release for the Bionic. By the end of April, Motorola officially announced it was delaying the Bionic's release to the third quarter (July-September) in order to enhance the device based on feedback since CES.

Despite the messy, non-committal announcements surrounding the device, many can't wait. Two weeks ago, Motorola tweeted to one impatient fan that the Bionic was still on track for a summer release.

AT CES, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha demonstrated a Bionic that boasted a dual-core, Cortex-A9, Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and played "gorgeous games in full screen mode," according to PCMag mobile analyst Sascha Segan. See his hands on with the January version of the Bionic.

Meanwhile, on Thursday morning, the Motorola Droid 3 appeared on Verizon's online stores for pre-orders. This coincides with the end of Verizon's unlimited plans, though current Verizon customers can keep their unlimited plans, even with upgrades.

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Sara Yin

Sara Yin

Junior software analyst

Sara Yin is a junior analyst in the Software, Internet, and Networking group at PCmag.com, pouring most of her energy into app testing and security matters at Security Watch with Neil Rubenking. She lies awake at night pondering the state of mobile security (half-true). Prior to joining PCMag.com, Sara spent five years reporting for publications in New York City (Huffington Post), Hong Kong (South China Morning Post), and Singapore (Campaign Asia, Men's Health). Follow her on Twitter at @SecurityWatch and @sarapyin, or contact her the old school way: email. That's sara_yin AT pcmag.com.

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