Thoughts after using Bionic plus pictures

[corymcnutt]

Is it as wide as the thunderbolt?

I read somewhere that the Bionic's screen was SLIGHTLY slimmer...I hope not, but that's the "word."

I'd like to take the rest of the off and just read the manual and hope the OP posts lots of info/videos to look at!

 

[corymcnutt]

Does it have an actual METAL trim ring around the outside or is that shiny plastic? It also looks more charcoal gray than black?

 

[irl Panda]

Start up is ridiculously fast, sound is surprisingly good. The back is plastic like the d3. The camera problem that was widely talked about this the d3 is a NON factor. It boots up right away with no lag. The pentile screen looks a little different, but to be honest I love the pentile screen. More on performance in a bit.

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I'm a fan of pentile as well. I was surprised in either one of the pictures or the video, though. The screen, for whatever reason, just seemed incredibly vibrant to me. I was more curious when P3 sent that tweet out. Can't wait to see it in real life.

 

[Snow02]

(Posting for sub)

 

[wseyller]

Start up is ridiculously fast, sound is surprisingly good. The back is plastic like the d3. The camera problem that was widely talked about this the d3 is a NON factor. It boots up right away with no lag. The pentile screen looks a little different, but to be honest I love the pentile screen. More on performance in a bit.

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Nice the hear about the camera. Would like to see some pictures or 1080p video from it. The screen is an opinion. There is not a yes or no answer that we can get from one person about the screen. Just gotta go see it for yourself and see if you are good with it.

 

[916ninja]

I don't know if you can do this Joe, but can you download moonchaser and tell us if there is a lot of ghosting? It was pretty bad on the photon. My X looks ten times better.

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[Ahobbs21]

Well my day just got ruined just a whole lot of refresh on this thread. But thanks joe any chance your a plumber?

 

[Dkdude]

What about some benchmark tests as well?

I'm curious about the browser performance, how fast it loads full webpages and things like that.

 

[Joe the Insider]

Im still waiting for my manager to activate it, then I can do some tests. The glass on the screen is very nice, its hard to explain, but it compliments the actually screen. I want to stress that there is NO redraw. If your not familar with what that is, the d3 has an issue where after closing a app that's pretty heavy on ram or it would have to load all apps and widgets on the screen and it would take about 5 secs before it finished and was extremely annoying.

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[lembowski]

Im still waiting for my manager to activate it, then I can do some tests. The glass on the screen is very nice, its hard to explain, but it compliments the actually screen. I want to stress that there is NO redraw. If your not familar with what that is, the d3 has an issue where after closing a app that's pretty heavy on ram or it would have to load all apps and widgets on the screen and it would take about 5 secs before it finished and was extremely annoying.

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My Charge does the same thing. Glad to hear that this one doesn't!!

 

[gorgalis]

Im still waiting for my manager to activate it, then I can do some tests. The glass on the screen is very nice, its hard to explain, but it compliments the actually screen. I want to stress that there is NO redraw. If your not familar with what that is, the d3 has an issue where after closing a app that's pretty heavy on ram or it would have to load all apps and widgets on the screen and it would take about 5 secs before it finished and was extremely annoying.

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I do not want to jump all over you and bomb you with 1,000 questions, but that is gorilla glass, right?

 

[Snow02]

I do not want to jump all over you and bomb you with 1,000 questions, but that is gorilla glass, right?

Because you can tell just by looking at it....

 

[mjforte]

I do not want to jump all over you and bomb you with 1,000 questions, but that is gorilla glass, right?

All of Motorola's previous Droid phones have had Gorilla Glass, I would expect the Bionic to have it too.

 

[gorgalis]

Because you can tell just by looking at it....

No, because there was a rumor that it was going to have it. I'm sure if he has the phone early then he has some kind of source or saw something about it. It is a major selling point.

 

[Averix]

Because you can tell just by looking at it....

LOL Ok, that made my day.

 

[bplewis24]

Thanks for the info on the camera, and looking forward to battery life impressions.

Aside from that, can you tell if it has a multi-colored LED notification? Does it have a built-in option to enable/disable 4G?

Brandon

 

[Soapinmouth]

I hear you, but when the screen looks pixelated/blurry/ghosted/etc what is causing that.......the pentile.

actually pentile isn't what causes the ghosting and I have no idea what you mean by blurry its qHD do the text is fairly crisp on the dx2 and d3 I tried, the pixelation is just a funny thing that happens on large areas of solid colors mostly green other then that there isn't any. So they possibly could have kept pentile and completely fixed that. I know for me I would be perfectly happy with the pentile screen the battery life and brightness are great, but the ghosting is god awful.

 

[Averix]

actually pentile isn't what causes the ghosting and I have no idea what you mean by blurry its qHD do the text is fairly crisp on the dx2 and d3 I tried, the pixelation is just a funny thing that happens on large areas of solid colors mostly green other then that there isn't any. So they possibly could have kept pentile and completely fixed that. I know for me I would be perfectly happy with the pentile screen the battery life and brightness are great, but the ghosting is god awful.

Refresh rates on any LCD technology are the problem with ghosting. Even cheaper LCD TVs still suffer that issue. Be interesting to compare this to other screens though.

 

[Joe the Insider]

I wish I could tell you that it has gorilla glass, but until I can confirm all I can say is it looks like like it does. As for the pentile.screen, I am noticing a better looking screen than the d3 and dx. The dark chrome is nice around the screen. Its actually a little lighter than the d3 when it comes to the color of the chrome.

Unfortunetly i dont live in a 4g area yet, so this all based around 3g service. I will start running benchmarks and what not once i get it back.
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[Joe the Insider]

D3/bionic comparison.

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