IPhone vs HTC Thunderbolt vs. Droid Bionic

So i'm up for an upgrad and I can't decide if I should go ahead and get the iPhone or wait for the thunderbolt or the bionic? Which phone do you think is better?

Im going to give you MY opinion. I received the iPhone and returned it after 10 days. It was exciting to get my hands on it but the excitement weared off and i started to get bored of it. There are many issues with iOS and the iPhone, not realy issues rather things that some people find inconvenient. For example the terrible notification system apple built....the lack of LED light, the terrible email....its great at the extras like apps and browser, but the things that a phone must do, apple makes those things secondary which is not smart. The iPhone is a cool device but is not reliable when you need to use it as a phone.
If you like android i would definetly go for the droid bionic, i wouldnt go for the thunderbolt because we dont know how much the rates are so you dont want to be surprised with an enormous data charge monthly, wait until verizon releases their 3rd 4g device (bionic) and then jump on it....Bionic is also from motorola and they have very reliable hardware and software. The bionic is the next generation of the droid, droid 2, and droid X.
I dont suggest the iPhone, its old and i made a mistake by buying into the hype. Go for the bionic thats what im probably gonna do.

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Iphone 4s battery vs HTC Thunderbolt???

I'm debating whether I should pony up and buy a 4s on verizon even though I'm not eligible for a discount until Nov. 2012 and would have to pay full price. The issue is I have an HTC Thunderbolt and the battery is so horrible (even with everything including 4G turned off and my display turned all the way down) that it hardly lasts me through my work day without going dead. I'm tired of this and obviously there isn't much that Verizon is willing to do for me so I figured maybe I should just buy a 4s now and then flip it on ebay when the 5 comes out which I should be able to get discounted since my contract is up in Nov. What do you think?

BTW I scanned through the thread about people complaining about the 4s's battery life and I don't know if it's as bad as what I'm going through. All I need to do for my phone to basically be dead is check my email, send 5 texts, and browse the net (non flash sites) for 20 min or so and i'm from a full charge down to a half charge. Then about 4 or so hours later I'm in the yellow on my battery bar which basically disables everything and means get it to a charger. Not to mention it's a 4g device that I cannot even use 4g on because then the phone will only last 4 hours (no exageration). I hope that if the iphone 5 is a 4g device that it will be much better battery-wise than what is out now!

Droid Bionic incorrectly listed as HTC device on "Supported Devices" web page

At http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mobile/platforms/ the Droid Bionic is incorrectly listed as an HTC device.
The Droid Bionic is a MOTOROLA device. :)
I attempted to submit feedback about this to Mozilla/Firefox but my feedback was rejected because the message contained a URL.
Will someone (who can) please notify the Mobile Firefox webmaster about this?
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Thanks for letting us know. I've passed this information on the the correct people who will be able to fix this.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728761

NEW HTC THUNDERBOLT....WHAT DO YOU KNOW???

Anyone hear anything about the THUNDERBOLT???? I saw some previews and rumors but nothing solid. Any thoughts??

If any of you are still interested, I've been trying to keep up with when the Thunderbolt might be getting released. I heard in-store that they were supposed to get a dummy model on 1/16, but they never received it. they were scheduled to get the test model this week, which apparently has held true, and have the phone for sale no more than 2 weeks after that. So from what I personally have heard, I would say that the Thunderbolt will launch at the end of Jan.
However, everything I can find online says that it is looking to be a month after that, the end of Feb.
There's a lot of info from the last week , and even the last two days, if you follow this Google link and check out the news section!
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=HTC+Thunderbolt+Launch+Date
And I know this talks about more than just the Thunderbolt, but if you're thinking about the phone, this is a pretty great resource to see.
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/01/17/infographic-bionic-vs-iphone-vs-thunderbolt/
Sorry to even bring this up, but it's kind of sad that the Verizon iPhone is so outmatched. I know they are going to release a new one in just about 6 months, but there was WAY more potential for it after such a long wait to get it here. Anyways, it IS comforting to see that the phone I want beats out the iPhone in so many ways.

What to choose? And what to do with Droid Bionic?

So now that we all know Verizon is getting the top 3 phones for the holiday season i am wondering what phone of the 3 would you go for. HTC Rezound, Droid Razr, Samsung Nexus.
The reason I ask is that I have a Droid Bionic and although I have not experienced any of the problems that most people complaint about. I have had some apps disappeared. And sometimes I have to connect to my works WIFI to get data even though I have full blown LTE coverage in my area. I don't want my bionic anymore so I will put it up for sale and get the HTC Rezound.

PJNC284 wrote:
vidguy7 wrote:
In exchange for the slimmer form factor of the Razr vs your Bionic, you wil be getting a sealed battery that cannot be replaced, cannot be swapped for a heavy duty battery and cannot be rebooted by pulling the battery as may sometimes be required.
I'm also not sure why you think the phones you mentioned won't have as many, if not more issues than your Bionic. The last Samsung I had was the Charge and that was an unequivical disaster. No more Sammys for me.
All of the 4G phones have the connection issue to one degree or another. That won't change until Verizon does something with their 4G network.
My advice? Stick with your Bionic.
Some combination of the volume/power buttons will probably serve the same purpose as a battery pull on the Razr. Like you said, the sealed battery is probably a bad idea with the inefficiency of current LTE devices. Still not a fan of blur either but it seems to be getting better.
As for the Nexus, don't let the image of previous Samsung devices sway you. Software is Samsung's main weak point but that has been removed from the equation as Google will be providing the update. No bloat or manufacturer skin to way it down. It'll be the first ICS phone so it'll likely have its own list of bugs and quirks but what phone doesn't. No SD card is really the only downside I can see and that's all a matter of personal preference.
The Rezound is pretty much a Thunderbolt on steroids. It'll be a good device but will suffer from the same battery issues as previous HTC phones since they keep trying to put the smallest battery possible in it. Almost twice the thickness of the Razr and they still can't keep up with battery capacity. Plus it may be "ICS ready" but it'll probably be months before anyone actually sees it.
Very informative post. Are tou saying the Nexus will not have a microSD card included?

Stories about early upgrades for the Droid Bionic.

Hello,
I have been searching for stories about the Bionic for a while, and I have seen a couple pop up that say Verizon is offering early upgrades to *SOME* customers.
http://www.gizmocrunch.com/mobile/8185--verizon-iphone-5-htc-vigor-nexus-prime-motorola-droid-bionic
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This promotion, although recently released, doesn't necessarily pertain to the Droid Bionic alone. Verizon sent out thousands of e-mails to customers that have never owned a smart phone before and fit various other criteria. The promotion allows you to upgrade from a basic phone to a smart phone early if you wish to do so. The promotion also entitles the customer to a $100 rebate in the form of a Visa gift card if they mail in their old basic phone as well. Hope this helps.

Droid Bionic Sim card

I just received the Droid Bionic today and the Sim card is not recognized by the system and therefore cannot be activated. Technical Support is closed by 11pm and it is now almost 12 midnight. There is no online support to address the issue of a sim card that is not recognized by the Verizon system.
Any suggestions other than waiting to go to the VZW store when it opens?

You will probably have to go back to your store.
The SIM is supposed to be activated when the subscriber info is entered into the system, either by the CSR at the store, or over the phone on that 877 (?) number. Then the card is inserted into the phone and the phone should activate over the air.
Supposed to, that is. My Bionic attempted to activate for 24 hours without success. The store guys were finally able to make the phone activate the next morning by inserting the card into an HTC Thunderbolt, letting the SIM activate, then re-inserting the card into my Bionic, where I was able to set the phone up from there.
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Yes, I know a lot of people have posted about issues with Bionics. There were people complaining about the Bionic before it was released, after it was released, and after the ICS update as well. You should have seen the folks that wanted to go back to Gingerbread after the ICS update because the new update "messed up their phone".
I'm not saying that folks aren't having problems, but it's not just the Bionic and it's not just Jelly Bean. I'd say that you'll see more comments about issues because most people that aren't having issues rarely post that they aren't having issues.
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Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

HTC Thunderbolt: What the fudge?

Honestly Verizon—honestly? One day in March when I was on my way to the local Verizon Shoppe to buy an iPhone 4. I was looking around the store, intrigued by this new 4G LTE (which is the only thing I like about this phone) I started to talk to a salesmen about it who convinced me that this was "the phone to buy". Now after owning this phone for about 2 months now I can confidently say that having a HTC thunderbolt; proclaimed flagship 4G phone of Verizon wireless is worse than owning a dog with down's syndrome.
Now besides how thick and heavy this phone is there are just so many issues with it, the kick stand is rotting away, the battery life is lower than a limbo stick for mice, the screen is absolute crap and considering that it is an HTC sense phone we should have things like HTCsense.com at out disposal but no--big red decided to take the "Oh we could have good features that will make out customers happy but I'd rather just leave them out" rout. Who knew that someone could feel so much hatred for plastic? But what recently tipped the turtle on it's back was that my 4G/3G/1x will not even work anymore, I am paying a fee for unlimited data and it's not picking up anything it use to. What kind of fortune 500 company can get away with selling a heaping pile of poop to customers and advertise it as the latest and greatest technology?
Does anyone know if it's possible for me to go to my local Verizon store and trade this in for another 4G phone or an iPhone?

gina7289 wrote:
I only have 3g mind u. I didnt ask for anything. I thought I made that clear. They used to swap u out after so many replacements within a certain period. I don't want to but I pointed it out if u have had a lot of problems. Some would want to if there tired of dropping off phones at FedEx. Have a had 4 major rebooting phones and with 3g3bars not be able to use it to do the internet although good signal. When I charged them sometimes they would shut off. I get 6-7 hrs with the phone not shutting off or rebooting. Wouldn't u think they would feel bad. All these things after update that's officially recalled. I love my phone but I don't love what its done. It died one day after 2 - 3 hrs caught it rebooting 3-4 times.
As for what VZW used to do with exchanges, thank the abusers for killing that option.

Will Droid 2 SIM card work in a droid Bionic?

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I saw a very detailed tech report on that awhile ago. Verizon is being very clever in that they are using some of the features of the dual-mode R-UIM-like features of the nano-SIM (C-SIM ?) slot for personal account information and LTE data provisioning. But the Verizon CDMA network connection data is still stored in firmware and the integrated whole (in terms of connectivity to Verizon's own network) gets pretty complicated.
(and the older I get, the less interested I seem to be to follow the details and understand the technology - does one grow out of geekness over time?)
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Droid DNA vs Droid Bionic

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If you have another HTC phone and your're used to it's specs, then go ahead and try it out!

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Anyone else besides me having a problem with the startup of there Droid Bionic. I timed my phone to see how long it takes to start up
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