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Motorola Droid Bionic vs. Other Verizon 4G Phones

jaydenrobins08

Jan 8, 2011, 3:50 PM
What does everyone think about the Motorola Droid Bionic compared to the other Verizon 4G phones coming out that were shown on CES. I would say that I would rather have the Thunderbolt but it doesn't have a dual-core processor. What do you guys think?
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Cosmic Spiderman

Jan 8, 2011, 6:29 PM
There's a few things about the Thunderbolt that are better, but the dual core is a big deal. it will run faster, cooler, and with less battery usage. Personally, I've never been a big fan of HTC, not sure why, but I'm a bit disappointed in the 2.7GB of onboard memory with the Bionic vs the 8GB on the Thunderbolt AND the Droid X. Don't understand why 2.7 when the X has 8.I def think that those are the 2 standout phones though.
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whiteninjazx6r

Mar 14, 2011, 11:24 AM
I need to clear this up...the thunderbolt does not have anything better really than the bionic. You all keep saying that the 2.7gig vs 8gig of memory...NO! that is far from correct.

Thunderbolt: RAM: (memory) 768 mb SDRAM (bad)
Rom: has not been listed it seems
Storage: 8 Gigs
Bionic: Ram (memory) 512 mb DDR2 (PC memory!)
Rom: this is the 2 Gigs you're seeing which is amazing. The Incredible had 1/4 of that.
Storage: 16 Gigs

I hope this makes sense...the Bionic will put the TB to shame...completely...OH! And the battery is huge on the Bionic! plus the Tegra 2 CPU...
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Cosmic Spiderman

Mar 14, 2011, 11:55 AM
Well at the time of posting this, that is the specs that were listed on this site. If you use their comparison tool from this site, it is kinda unfair. They compare the 8GB of the TB to 2.7GB of the Bionic. That also show the 2 processors to be no different(which is far from true). The part that makes me laugh is that they act like the FM Tuner that comes with the TB is a big thing. There are FREE android apps to give ANY android phone FM radio. I agree, the Bionic looks to be a monster of a phone. No competition that I can see.
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mupi

Mar 14, 2011, 8:12 PM
Lets be fair, the free apps don't actually turn your phone into an FM radio, they merely allow you to tune into the radio station's stream. However, this does use data, as well as the phones radios, which causes heat and generally more battery drain than sitting there passively receiving. Also, if you are in a 3G area, you won't be able to continue listening if you get a phone call.

To some people, having an FM radio is a dealbreaker. It may not be for you, but if it is for me, then where the heck do you get off trying to tell me that it isn't important?
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Cosmic Spiderman

Mar 16, 2011, 10:34 AM
That's fine, I'm not saying that it may be important to some people, but really a "dealbreaker"? I was just implying that it is easily compensated for through free apps. Are you really gonna buy a phone for it's radio? I would think that a dualcore processor would be more important as it has to do with the performance speed of your phone. Additionally most places you go are going to have a FM radio in them, i.e. your car or home. With the limitless number of mp3s I can downlowd for free, I can listen to any music I want without radio comercials. Maybe you are talking about sports talk?
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mupi

Mar 18, 2011, 12:04 AM
there's sports, there's talk. In a lot of gyms, the TV audio is broadcast via FM radio, so you can listen to the tv if you like, without disturbing those who prefer to listen to music.

A dual processor phone won't do squat if the OS and applications aren't written to take advantage of it. BOTH OS and applications need to be written correctly to take full advantage, although it is possible to take SOME advantage if only the OS supports it. If the OS doesn't support it, it's pretty much a worthless power drain.

And android for the moment doesn't. FWIW.
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mupi

Mar 14, 2011, 8:07 PM
OK, lets put this into a little bit of perspective.

First, you claim that DDR2 is "PC memory" while SDRAM is "bad". However, most moderns PCs are built with DDR3, not DDR2. And there are still a large number of PCs with SDRAM memory, pluggin away happily.

DDR didn't really come into vogue until PCs crack the 1Ghz threshold, because up until about 1Ghz, regular SDRAM can keep up with the processor just fine. It isn't until slightly more than 1Ghz that memory chips start to run out of steam, and that's what DDR is an answer to. Now we have the first phone with a processor that is, out of the box, designed to exceed 1ghz by a significant margin. (consider that a dual core CPU running at 1Ghz is almost equivalent to a single core runni...
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lovo

Apr 25, 2011, 5:19 PM
great points! but motorola is rethinking the design lets hope they improve on it now as is there really isnt a clear winner because the point remains that android 2.2 doesnt have support for dual core nor will 2.3 for that matter i belive dual core suppor will come with version i or ice cream at the point the bionic will dwarf the tbolt now dual cores do inpact the performance but not to their potencial point incase i currently own a droid x my sister has the new lg gx2 now were both on 2.2 i am rooted she isnt i had time to play with it even with a smaller rom and overclocked chip on my droid x i ran sum test between the phones i removed all motorblur from my phone ran sum applications on both and altho it similar performance i cant help bu...
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mupi

Apr 26, 2011, 10:53 PM
You know, i keep hearing people say this, but the reality is that because of the inherently threaded architecture of Dalvik means that there shouldn't really need to be much "support" for two (or more) processors required from the OS at all. The OS already launches each application in its own virtual machine, so the practical mechanics of launching it on a different CPU shouldn't be difficult. If, as I suspect, these new generation of Android-optimized CPU's include native dalvik support, it's even possible that there's hardware thread allocation, in which case there really wouldn't be anything needed on the OS side at all.
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jaydenrobins08

Jan 8, 2011, 10:30 PM
I am a real big fan of HTC Sense and I really want it but I don't know if I can give up a dual-core processor for Sense. Hopefully the Bionic will come out in March or April. I want it soon!
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dean2359

Jan 9, 2011, 10:13 AM
I think the T-Bolts front facing is only a vga while the Bionic has a 2mp,plus the screen resolution is better on the Bionic.The Bionic is postioned as a higher-end phone. I had to replace my Incredible with a Droid X because the HTC's reception wasn't as good. I could barely make a call inside,and I had 2 of the INCs,problem was solved with the X.
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Iknownothing

Jan 22, 2011, 7:41 PM
the bionic has a higher resolution screen but the thundebold is slcd. In addtion the Tbold has considerably more ram, which will probably be a bigger difference maker in terms of speed than the dual core... at first.

The tbold is a better phone in every way except, and it s HUGE exception, that dual core tegra 2. Were I on Verizon.. I wouldnt know what to do.
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Malikai

Jan 9, 2011, 9:26 PM
In all honesty, I was excited about the HTC Thunderbolt. However, after seeing the Motorola Droid Bionic, I might have to get this phone instead. I think I am more intrigued by the Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual-Core processor more than anything that the Thunderbolt offers. I currently use the Incredible, and I wanted to get another HTC phone only because they know how to do widgets and I like their Sense UI. But Motorola is really climbing up on my charts. As for the other devices, Samsung SCH-i510 and the LG Revolution, I am not really considering those even though they look very good as well.
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dalegg

Jan 13, 2011, 8:33 PM
If this phone had a physical keyboard, it would be perfect. But, does it have a FM radio? I can not imagine a new high phone without one.
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smittycal

Jan 16, 2011, 8:44 PM
It dosent look like it has one. Check with your favorite radio station and see if they have a droid app. Theres a few local stations close to where I live that do.

Theres also Pandora, Slacker and I Heart Radio
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dalegg

Jan 16, 2011, 11:39 PM
I don't need a FM radio on the phone to listen to radio stations. My fitness club has TVs that broadcast on FM channels for the TV audio. If my phone had a FM radio, I could leave my radio receiver at home and only take my phone.

I looked at every spec sheet I could find and it wasn't mentioned but I am hoping it is so common now that they don't even bother to mention it, kind of like they don't mention you can actually make a phone call with one.
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williambr

Jan 25, 2011, 10:55 PM
If this chart is accurate, then the Motorola Droid Bionic does not have an FM radio (and the HTC Thunderbolt does) http://johnsandroid.com/thunderbolt-bionic-ip hone-4/#more-192
Forgive me, I am new to this forum and don't know how to hyperlink it, so you may have to cut and paste this into your address bar.
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Nimdae

Jan 21, 2011, 6:25 PM
Some notes about the differences in terms of the SOC used.

Droid Bionic/Tegra 2: This is a dual core phone built on CortexA9 technology. The CortexA9 implemented new technology over the CortexA8 other than the capability of multiple cores that improves performance without pulling much harder on the battery. A single CortexA9 core will outperform a similarly clocked CortexA8.

Thunderbolt, et el/Snapdragon: This is a single core phone built on Snapdragon from Qualcomm. The current Snapdragon core is similar in performance and features to the CortexA8. This means a single core Snapdragon SOC is not just half the performance of Tegra 2, but is actually less than half the performance.

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