Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
RescuesK9s
Newbie

I am due for my upgrade in April and have started checking out what my options will be if I want to switch. I have been resisting getting any Android phones because I have mastered my Blackberry for the things I need. I am also leary of touchscreens because I have not had much luck with the one on my iPod Touch. Anyhow, the Thunderbolt and the Bionic both look like strong offerings but I am wondering which would suit my needs better. Here's what I need:

 

 

  • Email. I have multiple accounts (gmail, yahoo and live) and don't like downtime in receiving them.
  • Camera, I need to have quality pictures that can be forwarded via text, email and posted to FB.
  • Global capability would be nice but isn't necessary. 
  • Must be easy to text on it. Can't have one of those predictive text functions or at least I want to be able to turn it off. 
  • High battery life.
Ok that's pretty much it. Any help and advice is appreciated (even if it's recommending another device)

 

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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
MRW1215
Newbie

I plan to get a Thunderbolt when I can upgrade in April. Is the Bionic coming out by then? Anyway, from what I've heard, most aren't happy with the battery life of the Thunderbolt (though it seems as though better, longer lasting batteries will be released in the near future). The Bionic is a 4G phone, correct? If so, chances are, its battery life won't be a lot better, as I hear 4G eats up battery pretty quickly.

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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
TBhouston
Specialist - Level 1

Honestly battery life has more to do with how you do your syncs and notifications than anything..

 

Honestly if the bionic is global that might push it over the edge for you (since the thunderbolt is not)

 

Both have full touch screens, and for what you mentioned I don't  think you would notice a difference.. It just depends on your preference of manufacture..take 15 mins and head to a store demo the phone..take some pics, edit them try to send to via txt etc see if you like it.

 

The bionic is a more powerful phone, but it all comes down to what you need it to do

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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
AZSALUKI
Legend

motorolas seem to get a bit better battery life than htc's and i think the stock batteries are actually more powerful (1400mah in the tbolt is pretty silly if you ask me). the bionic will also have a dual core processor and WILL be faster (although the updated 1ghz hummingbird in the tbolt is ridiculously fast already). i think in a spec to spec comparison the bionic will have the advantages. that being said, the tbolt is out now and i prefer sense UI to blur on the motos....so it will be the tbolt for me.

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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
RescuesK9s
Newbie
Forgive me, I don't follow all the phone lingo but what is Sense and Blur and the advantages of these?
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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
MRW1215
Newbie

 


RescuesK9s wrote:
Forgive me, I don't follow all the phone lingo but what is Sense and Blur and the advantages of these?

Hah, I've been curious about that, too. Only thing I know for sure is that, with HTC phones, they have that big time display on the home screen; I assume that's part of HTC Sense. I'm sure there's probably more technical aspects to it, but that's the immediate thing I notice, just from seeing different Android phones in comparison.

 

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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
AZSALUKI
Legend
It is the user interface. And yes, that big clock is part of sense. All androids run the same Android operating system (although some run 2.1 and most run 2.2). However, the manufacturers all lay their own unique interface over the operating system. So a moto Droid, X, and Pro will all resemble each other. The HTC Eris, incredible, and thunderbolt (as well as all HTC's on other carriers) will resemble each other as well.....but using a moto will be noticeably different than an HTC. I love the sense UI compared to Motorola. All of this being said though, there are apps that can make an HTC device mimic the interface of a Motorola and vice versa. It wouldn't necessarily keep me from getting a Motorola, but its one of the factors that goes into my decisions. These things are so customizable that its really not that big of a deal.
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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
galaxie500fb
Contributor - Level 2

motorola likes to lockdown their bootloader which prevents to some degree of making the phone fully customizeable. 

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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
Ann154
Community Leader
Community Leader
I played with the HTC Thunderbolt in the store yesterday. While I did like it, Sense UI, and the feel of it felt good, I didn't love it. I had also recently tried an HTC Inspire. The two phones felt very similar. I just wish I could have seen blazing 4G LTE speeds on the Thunderbolt. No 4G in the area. :smileysad: I have some time too before I can upgrade to a new phone. Hopefully there will be more choices to pick from at that point. The HTC Thunderbolt is still on the list though. It would be nice if the price of a two year contract will have gone down by that time.

The Xoom however had that "Yum, I want one factor!" Someday I wish.

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Re: Help Deciding on Thunderbold or Droid Bionic
jgorton123
Newbie

Here's another forum post I found on the bionic vs the thunderbolt.

 

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/htc-thunderbolt/121390-thunderbolt-vs-bionic.html

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