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  • My question is if the Droid3 and Optimus 3D have the same CPU and GPU then what is causing the slowdown on the Moto?  Oh wait it must be MotoBlur.

  • I really hope Moto/Verizon changes their minds and decides to make this phone 4G LTE or 4G LTE upgradable. My contract is almost up. {{-_-}}

  • wow theses people kill me at how much they gripe if you don’t want the damn phone don’t get it if u don’t like motorola don’t buy their products its as simple as that nobody cares!

  • How will the Bionic do in this list? Is LG Opt 3D coming to Verizon? or just ATT?

  • i am now done with verizons bs my girlfriend needs a new phone i can upgrade next month but im not going to!! im switching to sprint the question is should i get the evo 4g or nexus s?

  • Wow, the O3D is dominating, and the D3 is just that on a bigger screen (which of course lowers the FPS). 

  • Hey DroidLife!,
    Would you please keep pushing for the Atrix style smartphone!  I am due for an upgrade and I really want the functionality of a laptop/desktop for my next smartphone.  (full size keyboard, monitor, sound and even a tv hookup.)

    I don’t want to invest in another computer or tablet, when I have a full function smartphone.

    Thxs!

    • Very true. I have a tablet with Tegra 2 and am not impressed. The graphics are very slow. Its likely a matter of immature drivers, but again that’s software.

  • Droid3 = Verizon. I’ve got 5 phones on their Family plan, but no more. With the new data plan, I would be crazy to stick with Verizon. Verizon phone = FAIL.

  • What are you talking about? Blame myself for what? I didn’t move from the DX to the DX2. Did you read what I wrote, or were you more focused on trying to take a jab?

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  • Just a shame it’s going to have a locked bootloader (probably), Blur and no LTE. With all these crap phones plus the new tiered data plans Verizon is starting to seem like this worst carrier for smart phones. Sprint is looking better and better.

    • Oh please, how is this a crap phone? You sound like any other person regurgitating this info; it’s mainly just rumors so far. LTE isn’t a practical option for most people in the country yet seeing as how the network is in early stages of development. No need to complain about the bootloader either, because if this is a popular phone, developers will find a way. Blur is pointless but custom roms can (hopefully) fix that. The Droid 3 is looking like a solid option the more we learn, and it isn’t even the flagship device… Bionic and Galaxy S II anyone?

      • Here is what I am up against regarding 4g or 3g….there is NO hope of getting 4g in my near future.  That said, who knows in a year or so what I will have in my area.  If i DONT get a 4g phone when I renew next month I have to wait another 2 years for a better phone or pay the price.  Not an attractive option imho.  

    • Yep they are gonna ruin a perfect device. I loved myd roid 1. This would be the device to have if it was mademlkke it was suppossedto be made

    • iphone 3gs out benchmarks iphone 4 thus it must be KING

      sgs2 only benchmarks well because of crappy resolution and i/o memory tricks

  • Dammit, I would like to get some confirmation on when this device is going to be released instead of leaked projections on when this device is available. This is getting frustrating really fast. So when is the NEW projected release date going to be?

  • Kinda shiggity for Motorola to release the Droid X2 to so underperforms next to the Droid3. Further confirming, to me at least, that there was really no reason to make the leap from the Droid X to the Droid X2. You can’t future proof stuff like smartphones, but I’d be pissed if the Droid3 drops within a month of the DX2 and I’m clocking in at 1/2 of the benchmark speed.

    • As a DX2 user coming from the DX1, I can state that knowing what I know now, I’d never have even considered getting the DX2. I’m getting a D3 on release day to get off the DX2, so it looks like I’ll be a beta tester yet again lol.

    • Use a little common sense.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the X2 is a nominal update versus the Droid 3.  You only have yourself to blame.

  • Something doesn’t seem… right here. I’ve had the Droid X2 for… exactly a month now, my friend got a Senstation yesterday, and I have lots of friends with galaxy S series.

    The galaxy S runs alright. The sensation blazes, and the X2 is literally on par with the Atrix, the G2X and other Tegras.

    My thought?

    Gingerbread is the key here.

  • Too many shortcomings to consider, and I haven’t even bothered to see if its Blurtarded, but, who cares at this point. Moto should really quit repackaging old phones and junk and focus on a smaller number of quality devices. They’ve already ruined their name in my eyes.

  • The Tegra thing started when you posted last week that it was a Tegra device. Plus this picture http://goo.gl/3KYBV helped that theory.

    • That image popped up at Engadget which prompted people to think it was a Tegra device. We’ve since removed that statement as the photo doesn’t appear to have come from either NVIDIA or Motorola.

  • I want Verizon to go all out and actually get a powerful phone that won’t be outdated in a heartbeat and won’t have a locked bootloader. I understand that Verizon sees an unlocked bootloader and thinks to themselves “oh crud now they can steal crap from us”. um no? We like unlocked bootloaders because we want to be able to overclock our phones or install a new interface on our phones, or perhaps even continue to get updates for our phone long after the original company has stopped updating the phone.

  • The D3 is looking much better than I thought it would, given the earlier review.  I’d have to see the screen in person to judge whether pentile is big deal or not.

    The big question is D3 or MyTouch 4G Slide. Hmm…

  • Yeah. I’ll be passing on any more motorola purchases. The Xoom was my last. Almost July and still no word on LTE? And now they are switching processors? Total joke.

  • It’s *really* funny when a bunch of 2 year old Android phones can whip the iPhone 4 in graphics performance. I’m goin’ Droid 4 Life.

    • This benchmark is a “little” skewed. Notice the 3GS “outperforms” the 4? The reason is because this test was always done at the native resolution of the phone, not the same render resolution. This somewhat invalidates the tests because the FPS tests were done at different resolutions on different phones. That’s why iPhone 4 scored the lowest, because it has the highest native resolution. That’s also why 2 year old phones scored so high, because their screens are much lower resolution, hence less pixels need to be rendered.

      Not trying to defend iPhone, just stating facts.

      • I understand what you’re saying, but in order to get a true picture of the phone’s performance, wouldn’t you always run at native resolution? Running the test at the lowest common denominator for all the devices might give you a picture of raw speed, but wouldn’t be an accurate representation of real-world performance (which frankly, is all you’re gonna care about in the end).

        Additionally, while the iPhone 4 is indeed a higher-res phone, it’s not *that* much higher than most of the Android phones running at 800×480. The ppi on the iPhone is ~326 while that on the Droids is somewhere between 255 and 270.

        Just a little different perspective 🙂

        • Not necessarily. A lot of games have internal rendering resolutions lower than the full screen resolution to improve performance. They even do it on the PS3 and XBox 360 more than some people realize. Most 360 games only run at an internal resolution of 1280×720 (720P), some even lower.

          You’re right, though, the iPhone 4 score shouldn’t be as low as it shows because of resolution alone. It does outperform the 3GS, though, so that leaves the question as to why this test shows it that much lower than it. Just makes me question the true validity of the test.

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  • I think it’s very per person. I have only 3G but couldn’t care less because I’m on wifi almost every hour of the day, and when I’m away from my home network I never really have a reason to do any heavy data lifting. So of course in my case, 4G doesn’t mean much, I’d always be much more interested in what kind of specs a new phone had.

    But still… regardless of my individual uses, I still think tiered data plans is complete bullshit, and is absolutely another stupid, greedy thing Verizon is doing to the detriment of their customer’s happiness. Like someone else said, they aren’t hard up for money, which totally just points these moves towards pure unadulterated greed. So I really hope a whole slew of informed Verizon customers do actually drop them and switch to another carrier.

    But alas, your normal Verizon customer isn’t informed, and or stupid, and probably won’t even notice their bill go up, or when they get angry because it did, they will show their indifference by continuing to pay and stay connected with Verizon. Of course another annoying point for some, myself included, is the fact that you may have quite a few friends or family on Verizon with you, and it would be quite a huge deal to try to convince everyone in your circle to switch carriers, especially if they don’t understand the issue very well. So basically it’s a lose, lose, lose, lose situation, and Verizon is laughing all the way to the bank, knowing they have all these unhappy customers wrapped around their little finger.

    So, good job Verizon, just like anyone or any company that becomes to large and successful for their own good, you’ve forgotten who put you into that seat of power and success in the first place. And you do absolutely nothing to please and show appreciation to the people that pay your salaries and help fund that new vacation home. Instead, you slap us all in the face at every chance you get.

  • it sucks that it doesn’t have LTE but if you dont’ think this is an OG on “roids” you may really have too high of expectations for phones.

    So yes, if you pass it up because there is no LTE I get it but you at least got to respect the phone for what it is.

  • The iPhone 4 got last lol, also look how high the nexus s is thats what happens when you build a stock device (Before anyone says anything I know it is the GPU but still).

    Also this is just a FPS test just shows how choppy the screen might be

  • I am going to wait until someone state side gets hands on review of the phone, no sense in throwing judgment one way or another. I am in no need of an lte phone at this point so depending how much shit Verizon preloads on the phone along with blur could be the deal breaker but like I said I am waiting for a real hands on review.

  • Just imagine if they gave it more than 512mb ram. That would keep it upgradeable for a while and it’d be even faster. Too bad. But I can live without 4G for now so I’ll probably still end up getting this as nothing else with a physical keyboard comes close. I just hope the data plans don’t kill my wallet.

  • Please oh please let this damn thing NOT have a pentile and NOT have a locked bootloader.  That’s all I really want in life.  I’ve been sitting on an upgrade for over a month now!

    • Wow my aspirations and wants in life, are way different and hold a lot more substance that wanting shit for a smart phone. I wish people actually had to live by stuff they say like this.

      Like phonedork 1 says “Man if I don’t get an unlocked bootinmyanusloader and I can’t benchmark my best friend in his garbage hole with this new phone that is coming out… well I’m just gonna kill myself!”

      Then their phone “wants” never appear, and someone says “Hey, I haven’t heard from random Phoneosexual guy in quite a while, where did he go?” “Oh he was struck by a semi truck and then as he tried to crawl away from oncoming traffic, a shark appeared out of nowhere and slowly ate him alive while some motorist cheered the shark on and laughed” “Awesome!”

      • Seriously. The amount of desperation and despair that reveals itself over a feature for a smart phone is really disturbing. 

  • This is going to be the best keyboard toting android out there. This is the point that needs to be stressed.

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  • Why couldn’t this have LTE WHY COULDN’T THIS HAVE LTE!!!!!

    ARG!  I love this phone but I have LTE in my area!  This phone has everything + I want BUT NOT the LTE. 

    MOTOROLA WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!

      • Funk the pentile!  At least this has longevity in it with the dual core CPU.  Who knows how long those single core CPUs will last.  What are we gonna get three android updates tops with them?  2.3, Ice Cream, and Jolly Rancher Delight? Then it’s OH SORRY your single core CPU phone can’t handle Krispy Wafer.

        • I have a 6 y/o single core P4 PC as my home media server. It’s handling Windows 7 just fine and I’m not planning to retire it in a new future.
          Why things should be different in mobile arena and devices be so short-lived?
          I actually think that memory size is a lot more important than a CPU speed (and of course GPU speed).

          • I still have my single P4 as well as my main desktop computer/media server and it indeed still runs awesomely. It’s actually about 8 years old now.

            I must agree with you in that the expected longevity of most mobile devices are very short lived. Such a shame, but that’s the consumer market for you, they want you to buy their products every couple years rather than building a product that will last forever. The power button on my Droid is broken and I take care of my stuff.

        • The dual core CPU will hold it’s own for a while for sure, but do you really think it’ll keep up in two years with only 512 mb of RAM? That’s what worries me, I’ve seen how much the measly 256 on the original Droid has held it back. And sure 512 is twice as much but it’s also 2 years later and all of the tablets coming out are already sporting a full gb.

        • The dual core CPU will hold it’s own for a while for sure, but do you really think it’ll keep up in two years with only 512 mb of RAM? That’s what worries me, I’ve seen how much the measly 256 on the original Droid has held it back. And sure 512 is twice as much but it’s also 2 years later and all of the tablets coming out are already sporting a full gb.

          • Most of that 1 gig of RAM is used by the displays. I haven’t found that a problem.  I’ve got the OG Droid and the only reason I plan on upgrading is the internal storage of 256.  I’ve had to delete apps I couldn’t move to the SD card just to keep enough free space available for updates to google apps and Flash.

            Once I got LauncherPro it was like I had a brand new phone until I maxed out the internal storage.  Don’t confuse the two.  The Droid3 has 16 gigs.  It’s a powerhouse.

      • Out of curiosity have you looked at a pentile screen phone? If I wouldn’t have been told I would not have really noticed. I did notice that the Samsung Charge screen looked nicer but by no means did I feel the X2 (the phone I looked at) was lacking. Heck, the X2 seemed like the fastest phone of the ones I used.

      • My pentile has all these weird black sores all over it and it smells something of a rotted cheese mixed with walnuts that were eaten and defecated, and then eaten again by those mongoloids on The Jersey Shore, then one of them died and they did an autopsy, well, that smell from the remains inside their stomach cavity is what it smells like.

        Is that normal or should I go to Verizon and have them look at it?

      • My pentile has all these weird black sores all over it and it smells something of a rotted cheese mixed with walnuts that were eaten and defecated, and then eaten again by those mongoloids on The Jersey Shore, then one of them died and they did an autopsy, well, that smell from the remains inside their stomach cavity is what it smells like.

        Is that normal or should I go to Verizon and have them look at it?

    • Why do so many people, like yourself, who post here have such obvious emotional problems? 

      Screen being pen tile doesn’t bother me, since this very website has done a complete about face in span of about two weeks, with zero explanation.

      It’s another manufactured outrage by a cellphone website that the average consumer cares nothing about. 

    • If the prices are going to be the same for LTE data and 3g, why the hell would you get a 3g phone? Well, I guess if you are just looking for a reason to buy a phone(Motorola DROID 4G!!) at full price in a year it kind of makes sense.

      • someone should do the eris… 😛 is this app on the market? i could benchmark it on my oc’d eris…

        • You can download it from their website:
          http://www.glbenchmark.com/

          Much better than that crap app, Quadrant. That thing has been spoofed for awhile, now. I just sideloaded GLBenchmark on my Streak 7 and found it’s surprisingly competitive (25.2/53.6 in the above tests), and I’m running stock ROM. I’ll have to load up the OC’d one and see how it does. I would love to see an OC’d Eris out there spanking the new guys!

      • It’s actually fairly accurate. The 3GS has a much lower resolution than the 4, hence less pixels to push.

  • It’s a little disappointing that it doesn’t have a better GPU than the SGX 540. I mean, c’mon, that was in the original Galaxy S devices last year. Combine that with the PenTile matrix screen and no 4G and I’ll pass, thanks.

    • Pentile is the biggest let down for me.  Looking at the X2’s screen next to my TB’s, the bolt’s screen seemed sharper, especially for small text.  And forget it when comparing it to the ip4

    • The SGX540 is still the fastest GPU around except for the SGX543MP in the A5.  The OMAP4’s is also clocked faster and has more memory bandwidth than the one in the Hummingbird.  The dual A9s are significantly faster than the Hummingbird’s A8 as well.

  • I hate to say it, but I don’t trust any of the blogs with any of their release dates.  Seems like they’re just as bad as local weathermen.

    • Yeah it’s all a bunch of hype to get more readers, thus earning more ad revenue and fulfilling your contract by promoting new phones for various carriers and companies that pay you to advertise for them or give you free promotional goods to test and write biased reviews on.

  • Who cares? Unless you’re not renewing your contract to get this, enjoy getting raped by Verizon’s new tiered plans. Plus the 512mb of RAM and no LTE is a huge fail.

  • Please oh PLEASE let this hit before July 7th.  I’ve been sitting on an upgrade since January 1st.  I’d hate to walk away from Verizon because of the new data plans.  

    • From what I’ve heard is that if you already on contract then you wont be affected, even if you are up for an upgrade. This is what a verizon worker told me like a month ago. 

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