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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.
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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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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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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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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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motorola likes to lockdown their bootloader which prevents to some degree of making the phone fully customizeable.
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The Xoom however had that "Yum, I want one factor!" Someday I wish.
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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