There’s the story starting around today about an alleged problem in a energy government unit affecting Motorola’s initial dual dual-core smartphones — AT&T’s Atrix 4G as well as Verizon’s Droid Bionic — that leads to a mixture of issues: overheating, weird RF fluctuation, a list goes upon. Sounds like a tragedy in the making, doesn’t it? Worst nonetheless, the PMU problem is pronounced to be the “vital unfixable flaw which will board [sic] it perpetually.” Bummer!

But let’s back up and consider a facts here. First, as most appropriate we can tell, a sources are dual posters in the HowardForums thread, one of that doesn’t even have the report firsthand — he was allegedly since a news “by someone who is testing the devices.” Furthermore, there’s really no such thing as an “unfixable” bug; you competence need to flay divided several layers of software as well as hardware to repair an emanate depending on how elemental a flaw turns out to be, though engineers have proven time as well as time again which “unfixable” isn’t really in their wording (white paint in reserve, of march.

None of this really matters, yet. The complaint — the reason we’re not reporting this as a straight rumor — is because bugs upon unreleased phones, either they spin out to be real or not, don’t matter. This device isn’t in your hands, as well as the manufacturer doesn’t intend to let it ship with the elemental smirch that creates the phone unusable. This holds quite true for Motorola Mobility, a association which only won its autonomy and is still in a throes of perplexing to claw the approach behind into a big leagues after years of mismanagement — the Atrix 4G and Droid Bionic have been Big Deals for Moto, as well as the company undoubtedly intends to get them right. Or, at the very least, right “sufficient” to have you wish them.

My disappointment is intensified by the actuality that neither of these phones have announced ship dates, so — again, presumption this problem is even genuine and needs to be solved — there’s not even anything to trip yet! This is because manufacturers and carriers give launch windows measured in quarters, halves or seasons of a year: things are fluid. It depends on how contrast goes. There have been most, most pieces in a nonplus to get the marvel of complicated engineering like a cellphone to boat, as well as each of those pieces has a little wiggle room.

My indicate? Let’s give Motorola (and everyone else) a break. If this was leading to a longed for launch date, certain, it’d absolutely be news. If Motorola pronounced “contemptible guys, there’s the fundamental smirch in these inclination and we can’t ship them,” then approbation, we’d be all over it. But the rumor of a bug in the device that Motorola knows isn’t ready for consumers — as well as has no material effect on any official launch date — simply doesn’t matter.

Update: Good news — Motorola only forsaken us a line to contend which “that there have been no overheating issues and the products will boat as scheduled.” Huzzah!

Via Engadget