Motorola delays 4G Droid Bionic for Verizon until summer

Motorola delays 4G Droid Bionic for Verizon until summer
http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/19/droid-bionic-delay/

DROID BIONIC

Motoro la's Droid Bion ic — its first 4G phone on Ver i zon — has been delayed until the sum mer so that the com pa ny can make "sev er al enhancements," the Wall Street Jour nal reports.

The Bion ic was orig i nal ly sched uled to launch in the sec ond quar ter, so the delay is a sig nif i cant one for Motoro la. Accord ing to the WSJ, the phone may not actu al ly ship until the third quar ter, or the very late sum mer.

The delay means that Motoro la won't have a 4G entry on Ver i zon's LTE net­work for some time. Mean while HTC's Thun der bolt has been out for a month now, and LG is prep ping its Rev o lu tion smart phone. Sam sung will also deliv er a 4G ver sion of its Galaxy S phone, and it's prepar ing for the Galaxy S II later this year as well. Ver i zon has a slew of other 4G devices on the hori zon, which we saw at the Con sumer Elec tron ics Show in Jan u ary.

A Motoro la spokes woman told the WSJ that the Bion ic improve ments came about after "com pelling feed back" from CES.

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