Former Bionic owners

[kca2000]

Some store managers from what I hear will swap them out for the discounted price.

Some other people like me were lucky enough to keep the Bionic until the Nexus came out and swap it then for no money.

However the big difference is probably that I called VZ Customer Service the instant I heard about the RAZR and said that I was very disappointed that they would release a "flagship moto phone" and then 6 weeks later release a better one.

Since the RAZR was not out yet there was nothing to swap out. Then everything got delayed and I thought the Nexus would be out at the same time (I was wrong LOL) so I asked if I could choose and they said yes (same price...).

When I saw the problems with the RAZR I told them I wanted the Nexus but it didn't come out for a while. So I kept calling and keeping up with them.

I think the key was I was very pro-active about it so they had a record of all of my calls.

In the end they want to keep you as a Verizon customer because they make the money off the contract. I have a Family plan and have been using them for 12 years.

Certainly after how well they treated me I'll be a Verizon customer for a long time.

It blows me away that people actually complained to Verizon about this and they give in. You get mad because something better comes out 6 weeks later? Welcome to technology! You had 2 weeks to return it and kept it, so you obviously were happy with it at the some point. Then the same phone with a few tweaks comes out in a smaller package and people throw a fit. Childish.

 

[meth68#AC]

Since LTE speeds were mentioned, I figured I would address this issue.

The LTE radio on the Nexus is a category 3 radio. The Bionic has a category 2 radio. Category 3 has a theoretical throughput of 100Mbps. The Bionic's radio has a maximum theoretical throughput of 50Mbps. In real world testing, with the same signal strength, the Nexus should wipe the floor with the Bionic every time.

I can confirm that with my Bionic I never received anything over 15-20 Mbps. But with my Nexus I can get 20+ often. With 3 bars I get typically 12-20Mbps. With 4 bars I can get upwards of 45Mbps! That's not too far from the peak maximum theoretical throughput of the actual bottleneck: Verizon's LTE network is only capable of 72Mbps.

Anyway, if you're one of the ones that is fortunate enough to have consistently strong signals (like me), this radio is excellent in speed.

Brandon

I did not know this but it makes sense now. I wasn't sure why my nexus was so much faster then my bionic, heck...I'm not complaining that's for sure

 

[SSHGuru]

Yeah this was one of the few complaints i had as well. Not the best vibration motor.

I bet they make the Vibration stronger when they do an update.

 

[SSHGuru]

It blows me away that people actually complained to Verizon about this and they give in. You get mad because something better comes out 6 weeks later? Welcome to technology! You had 2 weeks to return it and kept it, so you obviously were happy with it at the some point. Then the same phone with a few tweaks comes out in a smaller package and people throw a fit. Childish.

I think you are just Jealous.

 

[kca2000]

I think you are just Jealous.

I don't see how I could be jealous over such behavior.

 

[pauldroidr2d2]

I love my Nexus. I turned on my Bionic to use it while I was waiting for my Nexus to finish charging. I forgot how flipping slow that thing is booting up.

Overall, I'm glad I made the change. ICS is the biggest plus. Not to mention, if and when VZW and Motorola get off of their collective rears and choose to update the Bionic with ICS, it will be burdened with all of VZW's marketing garbage and that horrible Motorola Blur. Just personally, I hate Moto Blur and Sense. I am loving my vanilla ICS.