Hold your horses. A Twitter feed claiming to be the "Official Motorola Droid Bionic Twitter page" is no such thing, spokespeople from both Verizon Wireless and Motorola said. That means the page's statement that the long-awaited Droid Bionic will launch on September 8 is unofficial at best.
Today several news outlets reported on a tweet from "@DroidBionic," a page that claims to be the official Twitter voice of Verizon's much-anticipated smartphone. But the @DroidBionic page doesn't read like an official corporate communique, largely because of errors in punctuation and capitalization. For instance, the @DroidBionic page says "No pre-order's yet," which is a grammatical error.
Of course, everyone makes typos—myself included—so I turned to to Brenda Raney, a PR executive at Verizon Wireless. She confirmed that @DroidBionic is not an official Verizon Wireless Twitter feed.
Before you ask if the manufacturer may be running this, Motorola spokeswoman Danielle McNally emailed me to say, "this is not an official Twitter feed for Motorola."
So who is @DroidBionic? It could be anyone: a fan, a Verizon store employee, or someone else. There's just one thing we know it's not: official word on the Motorola Droid Bionic. It might be right, it might be wrong. It's just not official.
The most recent word on the Droid Bionic's official launch date is "September," as shown on the Verizon Wireless Web site. There are some TV ads out for the phone as well. Anticipation for the first dual-core, 4G LTE smartphone may have risen since Verizon confirmed it won't be part of tomorrow's Samsung Galaxy S II launch, although Internet rumors are now speaking of an even more powerful Verizon Samsung phone down the pike.
Source:http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392027,00.asp?kc=PCRSS05039TX1K0000762
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