I played with it yesterday and I am even happier with my bionic now. The razor is to thin to wide and to light. I love the weight and feel of the bionic. I'm also 13 hours, medium use with 60% left today. That is what you call good battery.
We got pwned by the RAZR!!
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I was pretty pissed about the razr coming so soon after i got my bionic, but not after playing with it today. It's too wide and I didn't like the screen at all. The Bionic has a brighter screen and it's just as clear. I'm sure the Razr performs just as well, but i didn't care for the screen or form factor. This doesn't take anything away from the Razr, but I'm not feeling cheated about getting a Bionic in Sept. I wouldn't trade it for a second.
Thanks so much for.making me feel better about my bionic. Just wish I didn't have force close on home
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too wide?? it's BARELY wider than the bionic. A tiny fraction of an inch. The Razr has better color accuracy and deeper blacks. The brightness of the 3 Razr's I saw was just as nice as the two Bionics I compared them to (my wife's and mine). the ONLY difference in brightness was in whites and light grays, on the Razr, which are dimmer. But OVERALL brightness is excellent and on par with the Bionic. I viewed lots of different screens, and at different brightness settings. Google maps comparison makes the Bionic look purplish (satellite view), and the Razr looks more green in hills and vegetation. BUT, the whites on the Razr are NOT tinged with green, at ANY brightness settings, on any of the 3 Razrs I looked at, contrary to someone's on line comments that theirs was greenish at low brightness.
On the other hand, why waste battery power when you don't have to? If you are not constantly downloading or streaming anything, why would you have 4G on? 3G works sufficiently for everything else. Personally, the only thing I toggle 4G when need the download speed. No need to get shut off anything else, the phone is fast enough and manages memory and conserves battery power just fine.
All of that has been my experience and I believe that my phone is a super phone even with 4G off.
I agree. And its no different if say you are in a bad reception area. That will kill the battery for a 3G phone, let alone a 4G one. Like my apt is a virtual dead zone....why have 4G on at all? I have Wifi so there you go for when I'm in my apt. Am thinking about getting a network extender.
4G is relatively new so until it gets better, more stable it will be issues with it right now.
Just got back from the Verizon store and they had both the Razr and the Bionic, unleashed, sitting next to eachother on of the CSR's desk... All of the employees had traded back in their Bionics for Razrs, lol... There's was only one guy that had a Bionic still, and he said he hadn't made up his mind yet.. but he seemed very interested in the Razr when I was playing with it! He seemed torn.
The screen's much better... higher contrast, deeper blacks, and it just looks higher quality. Not cartoony at all like the GS2's, and even the front facing camera can shoot in 720p versus the bionic's VGA.
The build quality is sturdy as they come, and the form factor feels much better in the hand over the bulky bionic, and the razr's battery is even bigger!
We tested the cameras, benchmarks, 4G reception, built quality, and general performance and the razr came out on top every single time. Not once did I experience this "green screen" issue (and i tested at all levels of brightness), overheating, lag, or camera crappiness that a couple of the reviewers talked about.
The non-removable battery can be remedied with external power packs and the phone can still be force-rebooted using key combinations. This is without a doubt the best phone on Verizon... those of you saying its not are just in denial because your locked in to the Bionic and don't have a choice.
The screen's much better... higher contrast, deeper blacks, and it just looks higher quality. Not cartoony at all like the GS2's, and even the front facing camera can shoot in 720p versus the bionic's VGA.
The build quality is sturdy as they come, and the form factor feels much better in the hand over the bulky bionic, and the razr's battery is even bigger!
We tested the cameras, benchmarks, 4G reception, built quality, and general performance and the razr came out on top every single time. Not once did I experience this "green screen" issue (and i tested at all levels of brightness), overheating, lag, or camera crappiness that a couple of the reviewers talked about.
The non-removable battery can be remedied with external power packs and the phone can still be force-rebooted using key combinations. This is without a doubt the best phone on Verizon... those of you saying its not are just in denial because your locked in to the Bionic and don't have a choice.
I wouldn't trade in my bionic for the razr if they gave me a hundred dollars with it. I could not stand the feel of it. To thin, light and wide for my taste. I'm very content with the bionic and will probably upgrade next year to a quad core bionic.
the one thing we are looking at here is if the razr's radio (or antenna/design) has better reception over the bionic... some initial tests indicate this may be the case but we are doing some testing over the next several days.....
The radio is the one reason I stick with Motorola...
The radio is the one reason I stick with Motorola...
Quad-core Bionic? There is zero evidence they are going to make another Bionic.
Personally, I thought the RAZR felt good in hand. I really liked its form and it seemed very inviting. It's not enough to make me abandon my plans to buy the Nexus, but it was definitely impressive.
Naw...he's just happy with his phone. Something we all strive to be. He's happy with his Bionic, I'm happy with my RAZR. Coming from a Droid X I like that its thin, thinner than the X.
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Go into a verizon store and load up nfl mobile on the bionic and the razr. Play the live feed and see if the left part of the screen has those stats that they show on the espn red zone show. Tried it a few times and the words are not readable on the razr but you can read them fine on the bionic.
Also i played with a live demo of the rezound today and it blows both phones away.
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Also i played with a live demo of the rezound today and it blows both phones away.
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The Rezound has Sense which is a dealbreaker for me. Plus, it's bulky as . I've had the G2 and Sensation as my last couple phones and although they were both awesome phones, I still prefer Vanilla Android over any version of Sense. I found that it slows the phone down and uses way too many resources. The 720P screen on the Rezound will already be demanding enough, I can't imagine the processor performing at its best when both the display and the resource-intensive Sense overlay are combined.
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Yeah the battery they put in the rezound seems kind of weak so ill be interested to see how it holds up.
But im with you on vanilla android. All these phones look great but none will stand up to the Nexus. Im wondering if Verizon is holding back announcing a date for the nexus until the Razr and rezound are announced not to take any of the thunder from them.
The Nexus does look amazing... the contoured shape combined with the insanely crisp looking super-amoled 720p screen and upgraded CPU over the razr makes it hard to dislike. With that said however, I think the main appeal to the GN is obviously ICS... I think once some of these older dual-core phones start getting the ICS upgrade decisions will be further altered.
Also, coming from the samsung moment and the epic 4g I've had considerable time spent with samsung products and I have to say that most if not all of their devices have the best bragging rights when it comes to pure specs, but in real-world usage their dont quite meet the mark. not to mention their updates seem to take forever, but with the GN being a nexus phone of course thats a non-issue.
Amen brother, different strokes for different folks. Mine has been perfect for over a month ever since we got 4g in our area.
As someone who recently exchanged a Bionic for the Razr, I have to agree with OP...Bionic DID get pwned. Plus battery life for me has been WAY better than most reviews led me to believe.
One more for that. Played with the RAZR today, was seriously considering selling bionic and paying full price, but its wide, really really wide, and otherwise not that different from my BIONIC... I'm HAPPY and not embarrassed to say that.
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