14 DAY TRIAL // Among the mobile phones that Verizon Wireless announced with 4G LTE capabilities on board during the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas in January, we counted a Motorola device too, the DROID Bionic, which has just passed through the FCC hallways.
The handset was expected to land on shelves sometime in March or April, but Motorola decided at one point that it should suffer a series of design modifications, and delayed it to summer.
The handset that received the necessary approvals from the FCC shows LTE connectivity capabilities, but this does not come too much as a surprise, since the DROID Bionic was said right from the start to include the capabilities on board.
It sports LTE radio on Verizon's LTE band 13, which clearly shows that it should arrive on shelves at Verizon as the DROID Bionic, since there is no other Motorola handset in the works with support for Big Red's 4G network.
The smartphone reportedly comes with support for CDMA voice capabilities and with LTE data features, and also includes WiFi 802.11 b/g/n connectivity.
The mobile phone should arrive on shelves with Google's Android operating system on board, though no info on the actual flavor of the OS has emerged so far.
Motorola has already launched mobile phones running under Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, and it would make sense for the new device to arrive with the latest flavor of the platform on board.
However, all other LTE-capable smartphones on Verizon's network run under Android 2.2 Froyo, and there is a great chance that the company could have the next such handset released with the same platform on board.
No specific release date for the DROID Bionic at Verizon is available at the moment, nor on the pricing the handset might feature when made available.
One way or the other, it might not be too long before an official announcement is made on the availability of this handset, although nothing is unveiled for the time being, so stay tuned for more on this.