My Bionic

[Jeryl31]

Just got it in the mail today

Can you please tell me how the battery is on moderate usage? Say a day to day situation for you

 

[KillerG]

Try the altar of a church or a graveyard.

I'd have to drive downtown to do either of those . Idk I have to find somewhere with WiFi for the next week if I want to do it...we don't get 4G LTE until next thursday.

 

[Lisa W]

Bworley50,

Apologize if this has been asked before. I use my OG Droid as an alarm clock on the docking station. Not bad for ambient lighting, however my SO uses the Droid X as an alarm clock and the thing is bright enough to read by (well almost). Have you tried it docked in a dark room to see how bright it is?

Thanks,

Lisa

 

[wnflyer]

Curious to know how the camera is when using the flash is required (dim lighting, etc). I was really disappointed with the Droid3 (and OG Droid and Droid X) because of issues with the flash and poor picture quality in low lighting or darkness. I dumped the D3 (bummer because I really like the Moto quality) and went with an Incredible 2, camera quality was a big reason.

Any feedback on low lighting picture quality would be appreciated. BTW, thanks for doing this. Donation to follow :-$

 

[RipTide]

Phone looks amazing, I'm def sold on this thing. Thanks so much for the videos man, wasn't sure if I wanted to wait for a review of it or what but this helped a lot.

I do have one question, or rather ask an opinion. I currently have a BB Storm 2 on VZW with Unlimited data, planning to move soon and was hoping to use 4G LTE on Bionic for my internet instead of Comcast. I haven't had an Android phone, but know countless people that do and I want one pretty badly, BB is horrible. The only good thing about BB is their e-mail integration which is phenomenal.

Would it be worth using my last NE2 on the Bionic, or wait for the rumored Nexus which is supposedly going to have Ice Cream Sandwich on it. From what I have read, ICS is going to have much better optimization and much better features than Gingerbread. Or is there any hope that the Bionic could at one point get updated with ICS.

 

[bworley50]

Bworley50,

Apologize if this has been asked before. I use my OG Droid as an alarm clock on the docking station. Not bad for ambient lighting, however my SO uses the Droid X as an alarm clock and the thing is bright enough to read by (well almost). Have you tried it docked in a dark room to see how bright it is?

Thanks,

Lisa

I have no accessories

 

[bworley50]

Phone looks amazing, I'm def sold on this thing. Thanks so much for the videos man, wasn't sure if I wanted to wait for a review of it or what but this helped a lot.

I do have one question, or rather ask an opinion. I currently have a BB Storm 2 on VZW with Unlimited data, planning to move soon and was hoping to use 4G LTE on Bionic for my internet instead of Comcast. I haven't had an Android phone, but know countless people that do and I want one pretty badly, BB is horrible. The only good thing about BB is their e-mail integration which is phenomenal.

Would it be worth using my last NE2 on the Bionic, or wait for the rumored Nexus which is supposedly going to have Ice Cream Sandwich on it. From what I have read, ICS is going to have much better optimization and much better features than Gingerbread. Or is there any hope that the Bionic could at one point get updated with ICS.

Use your NE2 on Bionic. When nexus comes out, see if you can't live without. If you can't, sling Bionic on Ebay and buy nexus at retail. Start saving.

 

[KillerG]

Use your NE2 on Bionic. When nexus comes out, see if you can't live without. If you can't, sling Bionic on Ebay and buy nexus at retail. Start saving.

If you buy it at Costco you get a 90 return policy...so you could return it within 3 months of purchasing it. I'd go for it, and if you can't live without a Nexus device, do what Bworley said and sell it on Ebay and get a Nexus. Bionic should be getting Ice Cream Sandwich sometime soon after it's released, probably sometime in late winter.

 

[greydarrah]

Phone looks amazing, I'm def sold on this thing. Thanks so much for the videos man, wasn't sure if I wanted to wait for a review of it or what but this helped a lot.

I do have one question, or rather ask an opinion. I currently have a BB Storm 2 on VZW with Unlimited data, planning to move soon and was hoping to use 4G LTE on Bionic for my internet instead of Comcast. I haven't had an Android phone, but know countless people that do and I want one pretty badly, BB is horrible. The only good thing about BB is their e-mail integration which is phenomenal.

Would it be worth using my last NE2 on the Bionic, or wait for the rumored Nexus which is supposedly going to have Ice Cream Sandwich on it. From what I have read, ICS is going to have much better optimization and much better features than Gingerbread. Or is there any hope that the Bionic could at one point get updated with ICS.

I'd get the Bionic now. There's no telling how long it will take for the Nexus (which probably isn't going to be a Nexus anyway) to actually hit the market, but I seriously doubt it wil be before the end of this year. Besides, the Bionic will probably be one of the first pre-existing phones to get ICS. I'd even say it's conceivable that the Bionic will have ICS before the Nexus is being sold through Verizon. Now that Google owns Moto and the Bionic is Moto's flagship phone, I'd guess they are using it right now as a development/testing environment for ICS already.

 

[KillerG]

I'd get the Bionic now. There's no telling how long it will take for the Nexus (which probably isn't going to be a Nexus anyway) to actually hit the market, but I seriously doubt it wil be before the end of this year. Besides, the Bionic will probably be one of the first pre-existing phones to get ICS. I'd even say it's conceivable that the Bionic will have ICS before the Nexus is being sold through Verizon.

Yes, that's another good reason...Verizon could just totally skip a Nexus device again, and we would just not get one at all. I wouldn't chance it, this is a great device.

 

[Bearly]

Bworley, does the hdmi cable mirror everything? Netflix looked great. Also, can we see a video and or thoughts on the keyboard. Accuracy and speed are big. It's gonna be hard to give up iPhone keyboard.

Download Swiftkey X and forget the iPhone keyboard.

Sent from my ADR6400L using Tapatalk

 

[TerrorTodd]

Any chance you take some more pictures? Indoors and outdoors? Video's look good the pictures you took in the grocery store looked pretty good too, but wanted to see outside for sure too.

This is super awesome for you to be doing this. Thank you soooooooooo much!!!!

--Todd

 

[RipTide]

Use your NE2 on Bionic. When nexus comes out, see if you can't live without. If you can't, sling Bionic on Ebay and buy nexus at retail. Start saving.

Good point, I'm sure the jump from a Storm 2 to an Android device would be a very large jump anyways, I'm sure I can live without Nexus after making that jump heh. Thanks again for the pre-review, helped my decision a lot.

If you buy it at Costco you get a 90 return policy...so you could return it within 3 months of purchasing it. I'd go for it, and if you can't live without a Nexus device, do what Bworley said and sell it on Ebay and get a Nexus. Bionic should be getting Ice Cream Sandwich sometime soon after it's released, probably sometime in late winter.

I've lived without an Android phone this entire time, so sadly I dunno how good a Nexus (Android clean phone) would be . Coming from a horribly reviewed Blackberry, I'm just going to get the Bionic for free since I don't have the money to buy it atm. It's gonna be a very large jump in tech regardless.

I'd get the Bionic now. There's no telling how long it will take for the Nexus (which probably isn't going to be a Nexus anyway) to actually hit the market, but I seriously doubt it wil be before the end of this year. Besides, the Bionic will probably be one of the first pre-existing phones to get ICS. I'd even say it's conceivable that the Bionic will have ICS before the Nexus is being sold through Verizon. Now that Google owns Moto and the Bionic is Moto's flagship phone, I'd guess they are using it right now as a development/testing environment for ICS already.

You make a really good point that I didn't think about, ICS could very well be being tested on the Bionic since Moto is owned by Google now. Hopefully this holds true so we could see some ICS loving on a great phone.

Thanks for the advice guys, that helped cement my decision. Gonna be picking up the Bionic come Thursday!

 

[Covington]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I hear you on looking for wifi but I guess I'm being a little geeky about worrying about the security of that and more to your point "Probably won't do that much anymore" is the key here as you have unlimited. Because you have unlimited, any tests you get a chance to do on how much data was used would be appreciated. Maybe on this forum, I'm one of the very few with this issue of not having unlimited on Verizon (currently AT&T) as most everyone already would have likely had unlimited Not having unlimited sure sucks though as it would require a lot more data watching especially at the super fast speeds so any info would be appreciated

thanks again

Here's a Data Calculator from Verizon.
Data Calculator
I'd say the "per month" option is better than the "per day" one.

 

[bplewis24]

Use your NE2 on Bionic. When nexus comes out, see if you can't live without. If you can't, sling Bionic on Ebay and buy nexus at retail. Start saving.

That's exactly the approach I will be taking.

Brandon

 

[kindrudekid]

m sorry i'm new to Verizon and USA


wats NE2 ????

 

[corymcnutt]

m sorry i'm new to Verizon and USA


wats NE2 ????

New Every Two

 

[tdizzel]

I'd get the Bionic now. There's no telling how long it will take for the Nexus (which probably isn't going to be a Nexus anyway) to actually hit the market, but I seriously doubt it wil be before the end of this year. Besides, the Bionic will probably be one of the first pre-existing phones to get ICS. I'd even say it's conceivable that the Bionic will have ICS before the Nexus is being sold through Verizon. Now that Google owns Moto and the Bionic is Moto's flagship phone, I'd guess they are using it right now as a development/testing environment for ICS already.

Google doesn't own Moto yet. They've agreed on terms, but the sale probably won't be finalized until the end of the year at the very earliest. Its highly unlikely that Google's proposed purchase of Moto will have any affect whatsoever on the Bionic.

 

[RipTide]

NE2 = New Every 2

It was a promotional offer that allowed old members who had a contract for 2+ years to receive any phone as an upgrade for free. They have since stopped this though once the iPhone came to Verizon.

 

[KillerG]

NE2 = New Every 2

It was a promotional offer that allowed old members who had a contract for 2+ years to receive any phone as an upgrade for free. They have since stopped this though once the iPhone came to Verizon.

But for smartphones it only takes like $50 off?