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Motorola Droid Bionic XT875 review: 2011 first Verizon LTE Droid.

Item: Motorola Droid Bionic XT875
Rating: 72
Author: SpecEagle Editorial

SpecEagle Editorial·Sep 2011·$300

Overall

72/100

Class rank

#1 of 3

Tier

Flagship

Buy?

At the right price

The verdict, up front

Droid Bionic XT875.

Motorola's 2011 Droid Bionic was Verizon's first LTE Droid — delayed but historically significant.

01Display

76/100

At 76/100 this is one of the strongest display showings among flagship phones of 2011 — 19 points above the cohort average.

TypeqHD TFT PenTile

Size4.3"

Resolution540 x 960

02Performance

74/100

At 74/100 this is one of the strongest performance showings among flagship phones of 2011 — 24 points above the cohort average.

ChipsetTI OMAP 4430

CPU1 GHz dual Cortex-A9

RAM1 GB

03Camera

70/100

At 70/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among flagship phones of 2011 — 20 points above the cohort average.

Main8 MP AF + dual LED

FrontVGA

04Battery

70/100

At 70/100 this is one of the strongest battery showings among flagship phones of 2011 — 16 points above the cohort average.

Capacity1,735 mAh (removable)

05Software

70/100

70/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2011.

What works

First Verizon LTE Droid.
Dual-core OMAP 4.
1 GB RAM.
Webtop Lapdock support.

What doesn't

Long delays before launch.
PenTile display.
Gingerbread aged.
Mediocre battery.

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 3-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .