It wasn't sufficiency to attain fans move figure months for whatever specifics most the Motorola Droid Bionic, Verizon's prototypal dual-core smartphone on its high-speed 4G LTE network.

Now, there are games to play, hints to interpret, and more questionable leaked noesis pointing to a Sept 8 start date.

On Wednesday, Verizon launched an app for hot fans to participated in an "augmented reality" hoarder hunt, streaming Sept. 4-7, that gives participants a quantity to intend the Droid Bionic.

By the looks of the vexer transcription posted, which you crapper analyse discover below, participants will be streaming around the municipality snapping photos of HDTVs, laptops, tablets, and quadcopters, with a quantity to intend the noble accolade of "the smartphone that controls them all," yes, the Droid Bionic.

"Each period for quaternary days, quaternary serendipitous hunters will intend Bionic and digit of the machines—there are up to 192 chances to intend apiece prize. Good phenomenon and safe hunting," the app statement reads.

Verizon didn't kibosh there. Also on Wednesday, the traveler armoured passwords to quaternary school blogs—Boy Genius Report, Android Central, Joystiq, and Boing Boing—to lick in at the authorised Droid website, DroidDoes.com, motion them into the gatekeepers of more open aggregation most the smartphone.

As of weekday morning, every but Boing Boing had entered the code; the authorised Twitter statement @DroidLanding addicted that "74 percent" of the locked noesis had been unlocked.

Riling Bionic devotees to no end, Boing Boing blamed FedEx for delaying Verizon's delivery, and then Verizon for not verifying the cipher punched in.

"So now, of course, every the added sites impact finished their taste and Boing Boing is existence harangued on Twitter by Droid fans to intend with the program. Sneaky, nimble PR here," complained Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza.

But will unlocking the teaser rattling instruct us with whatever more aggregation than what's been reportable by the blogs (without Verizon's confirmation, of course)? The juiciest newborn info most the Droid Bioinic were posted on weekday by Droid-Life, which unearthed an alleged, careful description artefact (click correct to enlarge) presented to Verizon employees.

The artefact confirms whatever of the info most the Bionic from an earlier leak, aforementioned a dual-core 1 rate processor, 4.3-inch qHD display, Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), 8-megapixel side camera, 1080p HD transcription recording, 1 GB of RAM.

But it also adds to sound most the Droid Bionic existence kindred to the Motorola Atrix. The Bionic has webtop capabilities (a flooded flat of Google Apps, for instance) and a severally oversubscribed lapdock that connects your ambulatory pass to a keyboard and mouse.

Droid-Life also posted what looks aforementioned an interior Verizon creation guide, locution the Droid Bionic will start "to every channels" incoming Thursday, Sept 8; the aforementioned period that Android Central reportable a pair weeks ago, along with a $299 toll tag.

The Droid Bionic is arguably Motorola's most highly expected creation this year, perhaps because it has been suspended since, well, January, when PC Mag had whatever hands-on instance with a prototype at CES. At the time, Motorola said it would start in February.

Perhaps Motorola should impact famous meliorate than to intercommunicate before its carrier, Verizon. The Droid Bionic was impact with digit retard after another, forcing Verizon to promulgation a statement explaining that it was undergoing whatever organisation revisions. Finally in July, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha assured it was on road to promulgation the Bionic in September, though the actualised fellow is in the safekeeping of Verizon; a Verizon spokeswoman exclusive reiterated the Sept cod date.

Unsure what every the perturbation is about? Check discover PCMag advance ambulatory shrink Sascha Segan's "Why You May Want a Motorola Droid Bionic."

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