From what we know about the bionic, how does it stack up against the samsung charge?
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It has a dual core processor, a gig of RAM, qHD screen, no cheesy physical buttons, allegedly rockin battery. The only department the charge might win in is screen quality. But all around, Bionic is miles ahead of the Charge. I honestly thought the Charge was an awful filler LTE phone. So I might be biased.
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The D3 is dual-core![]()
Now even though the bionic trumps the charge in almost all aspects, we can't forget that the charge is considered an old phone by now (released over 3 months ago) . It is also available for free now from amazon, which is definitely a huge plus in today's economy.
Most people are calling the Bionic "old" as well, even though it's not even out yet! It will still be the FIRST dual-core LTE phone with 1GB of DDR2 RAM, as well as an entirely new radio designed and built by Motorola...all of the "newer" phones have no release dates yet; they are where the Bionic has been...all kinds of assumptions, but no offical announcements; they could be delayed months for all we know.
I don't know how many times I have said 9/8.Most people are calling the Bionic "old" as well, even though it's not even out yet! It will still be the FIRST dual-core LTE phone with 1GB of DDR2 RAM, as well as an entirely new radio designed and built by Motorola...all of the "newer" phones have no release dates yet; they are where the Bionic has been...all kinds of assumptions, but no offical announcements; they could be delayed months for all we know.
I don't know how many times I have said 9/8.
Ok let's get down to brass tacks, shall we?...The Bionic is cool, but the problem now is that we're not too far away from having truly next-generation devices. Where as the Thunderbolt, Charge and Revolution were considered "last year spec" devices, what made them next generation was that they were super-fast LTE phones. Even if the Bionic came out 3 months ago, it would've helped it feel like something special...like the bridge between yesterday and tomorrow. Even with its fantastic specs, the Bionic now feels like the period at the end of the first LTE sentence, and not the transitional statement that it should have been...
2nd-gen phones usually need to have a 2nd-gen radio and processor. We don't know what the Vigor is using, but if it's using a 1.5GHz Snapdragon then the Vigor is actually the outdated phone. That chip is based on A8 architecture while the Tegra 2, OMAP, and Exynos are all based on A9, which is obviously newer and presumably performs better/more efficient. The Snapdragon processors definitely leave something to be desired in real world performance as well when you compare them to the OMAP and Exynos.
The Nexus might have a 4460 if you're lucky, but again, that's not a 2nd-gen chip either. The Bionic's 4430 can pump out the same performance if overclocked that the 4460 can achieve, just not quite as efficiently. However, if the 720p resolution screens are true, we might see a performance hit while trying to power up all of those extra pixels. Other than that, I think we will find that the two phones are quite similar. I probably won't even be able to tell the difference between the screens anyway. If we had something as clear as Apple's retina display, I'd have another opinion. This is why I'm not excited about the Nexus. I don't care for vanilla Android, and a "better" screen isn't worth waiting 2-3 months for.
For the sake of having a relevant device, I'd buy almost any dual-core phone over a single-core. My major concern with Samsung phones is that my Fascinate has never successfully locked onto my GPS location, and I can sometimes get spotty coverage. My Droid does all of this just fine. This is just my impression with Samsung phones. I love Samsung, but I haven't seen a great phone by them until the SGSII, which sadly, the American versions are just going to be hollow shells of what the Euro beast is.