I have owned many, android devices across AT&T and Verizon, starting from the htc magic, samsung captivate, htc inspire, htc DROID incredible, samsung fascinate, htc tbolt, DROID 1, DROID 2, and lastly the Bionic before this DROID 3. I hold absolutely no candle when it comes to developing the android os, but when it comes to experience with hardware that's where the experience is. The droid 3 just seems to blow the bionic out of the water with absolutely no lag in screen transitions, app drawer, browser loading time, etc. Im having a hard time with this, and am wondering if Im alone here or is it a placebo type thing being that im using maverick 3.0?
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Do you buy all these phones at full retail?
Try golauncher or adw-ex, makes your phone feel so much faster
As far as the full retail goes, no. Only one I paid full price for was the inspire which I returned 3 days later.
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I have owned many, android devices across AT&T and Verizon, starting from the htc magic, samsung captivate, htc inspire, htc DROID incredible, samsung fascinate, htc tbolt, DROID 1, DROID 2, and lastly the Bionic before this DROID 3. I hold absolutely no candle when it comes to developing the android os, but when it comes to experience with hardware that's where the experience is. The droid 3 just seems to blow the bionic out of the water with absolutely no lag in screen transitions, app drawer, browser loading time, etc. Im having a hard time with this, and am wondering if Im alone here or is it a placebo type thing being that im using maverick 3.0?
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..so wait..let me get this right lol you're having a hard time cause your d3 is so good?
/Droid3
Trying to understand why the droid 3 with the same os version for the most part with practically the same hardware and a little older feels faster then the bionic
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..so wait..let me get this right lol you're having a hard time cause your d3 is so good?
/Droid3
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Yeah that's how I interpreted it lol. maveric is a damn good ROM, tho the stock experience is also really good IMO if a little jumpy.
-smc
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I have owned many, android devices across AT&T and Verizon, starting from the htc magic, samsung captivate, htc inspire, htc DROID incredible, samsung fascinate, htc tbolt, DROID 1, DROID 2, and lastly the Bionic before this DROID 3. I hold absolutely no candle when it comes to developing the android os, but when it comes to experience with hardware that's where the experience is. The droid 3 just seems to blow the bionic out of the water with absolutely no lag in screen transitions, app drawer, browser loading time, etc. Im having a hard time with this, and am wondering if Im alone here or is it a placebo type thing being that im using maverick 3.0?
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This part confused me big time
What's confusing?
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This part confused me big time
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it means that he feels weird or difficult to believe that the dorid 3 seems faster than a Bionic, being the bionic a better hardware...
@davwman
do you have the bionic too?
does it have roms as well?
???
Had the Bionic. It has a few roms, just didn't see the need to move to the Bionic after 3 days of use with it.
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Really? I have a Droid 3 and 3 others in my family have Bionics. All my Bionics are far better than Droid 3 for speed and performance. What all have you done to the Droid 3? The Bionics have double the RAM that Droid 3 has and that is a big deal actually. I am still a physical keyboard guy and I wanted an international phone as I do travel internationally once in a while. For those reasons I still like the Droid 3 but my Bionics are faster.
Technically speaking yes, the Bionic should be faster on paper. But as the saying goes the DROID 3 has that "seat of the pants" feeling of being overall alot smoother. Im not saying thus is the case for everyone, but in mine, the DROID 3 feels better.
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Thinking bout getting the d3 and coming from the Inc I'm used to a big dev community so I'm wondering if the d3 will get one too once it has root
/Dinc
Definitely
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Well I got it and so far I'm happy just hope the community gets half as big as the Inc's was
/droid3
Many of the OG Droid owners are nearing phone renewal time so hopefully many of them pick the Droid 3. Of course there is a lot more out there now for android phones so some of them may leave for other phones. I'm someone who likes having the option of a physical keyboard so the Droid 3 was for me.
I think our major players are starting to emerge. But yes, a lot of D1 and D2 owners are coming up for renewal, and we are deathly loyal to our droids.
That, and being one of the few dual core phones, a world phone, and a physical keyboard give it MAJOR appeal.
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I think our major players are starting to emerge. But yes, a lot of D1 and D2 owners are coming up for renewal, and we are deathly loyal to our droids.
That, and being one of the few dual core phones, a world phone, and a physical keyboard give it MAJOR appeal.
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I seriously hope so this phone has so much potential!
/droid3
im hoping so too
I'm sure it will it just depends on on what they can do to the phone. And definitely if moto unlocks the bootloader. Then we have pretty much much have a overcharged 3g dominating phone. Especially if ChevyNo1 and peter Alfonso jumps aboard sorry for any misspellings in the dev names
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Hmm well at the very least, I for one am getting this device tomorrow to start experimenting with it which will mean camera image and video enhancements.
First thing I will do once rooted will be to tweak the bitrate values for images, video/audio and fix the white balance tolerance/default colour matrix.
Then including smaller resolution values as menu options, strange why they only added 8mp and 6mp options, I need 3mp for some situations.
I think the phone will be perfect with only a few modifications as i'm a fan of stock firmware.
-smc
I am planning on working on the Droid 3, I have tried to root, and am still trying, but all attempts have been unsuccessful as you can tell. I do not doubt root will be found for the Droid 3 at all though.
It seems like alot of good people are working on it so I don't doubt that we'll get it soon
/droid3
My faith lies within the community. I know well get this achieved!
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Which do you think is better?
/droid3
If you have to have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, the D3 is better. If you have to have 4G, the Bionic is better.
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Honestly, aside from the amount of RAM. The Droid 3 is the Bionic without 4G and a hardware keyboard and vice versa. They even look the same, with the camera being in a different spot.
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in all honesty i dont think phones will ever need more than 512mb to run efficiently.
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That extra 512mb may help the phone from laggin down... I had my D3 bogg down a few times already to the point i had to pull the battery no clue why ..
Yes, but if you really consider normal usage for regular people (lol, were rebels), they only make phone calls, text, check their email and web browse. 512 is more than sufficient. Heck, 256 is enough.
But from a power users standpoint, its a little different.
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Honestly, aside from the amount of RAM. The Droid 3 is the Bionic without 4G and a hardware keyboard and vice versa. They even look the same, with the camera being in a different spot.
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I'm pretty sure that half of the bionics ram is set aside for the webtop, thus both the d3 and bionic have the same amount of ram for android to use.
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Comparing these 2 are like comparing the droid x and droid 2 last year. Droid X had HDMI and a bit higher pixel density (854x480) as well as a larger screen, but Droid 2 had a Keyboard.
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D3 and Bionic are the exact same thing. 512mb of the 1024mb of the Bionic's ram is exclusively for webtop. D3 has the keyboard, and Bionic has the lte. It all comes down to if your area has lte or not and if you want a keyboard.
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I went for the Droid 3 because I wanted a physical keyboard. I wouldn't want a screen any larger than what I have now. About the only thing I wish the D3 had is 1GB of RAM instead of just 512MB. No 4G isn't a deal breaker for me because I live in a rural area that probably won't get 4G for a few years.
I agree. No matter what, physical keyboards will always be more accurate then touch screens
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kshen1 said:
in all honesty i dont think phones will ever need more than 512mb to run efficiently.
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Wrong.
The amount of free memory can easily go down to around 50MB when browsing webs and performing other mildly intensive tasks on the D3.
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I agree. No matter what, physical keyboards will always be more accurate then touch screens
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Did you try swype input method. (I don't)
I have a strong feeling that it's faster than physical keyboard.
Anyone please talk about your feelings?
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Wrong.
The amount of free memory can easily go down to around 50MB when browsing webs and performing other mildly intensive tasks on the D3.
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You're wrong. We literally make up 1% of the Android world. People in everyday life don't know what a redraw is. Heck, they don't even know what RAM is.
So what if there's only 50mb left? Most of the world doesnt even know that.
If you think you represent the whole Android community then you're wrong. PISS off.
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Did you try swype input method. (I don't)
I have a strong feeling that it's faster than physical keyboard.
Anyone please talk about your feelings?
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Did you even read my post?
I said accurate. Not faster.
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Simply stated, if you need a physical kb, d3. Lte, bionic.
I type faster on my hardware keyboard then the soft one. I send a lot of emails with it at work.
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I type faster on my hardware keyboard then the soft one. I send a lot of emails with it at work.
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Using the Droid X in landscape I was pretty fast and accurate on the standard keyboard. The problem for me is I use my phone to take notes at job sites & meetings. With the phone turned in landscape you can only see 1-3 lines of text and navigating around the text is nearly impossible. So, I'm back to a hard keyboard with the D3.
I like the D3 but I'm starting to get frustrated about the problems like the battery and the update is taking longer than expected. After seeing a friends Bionic, that is really a nice phone and has better accessories.
Beings that the bionic and almost every other phone has built in soft keys including the vigor which will be out soon, does anyone think any current phones will be getting an ICS update. ICS has the softkeys built into the screen like honeycomb. It would look a little funny with 2 sets of menu keys. Just seeing if anyone had any input on this issue
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I fully expect the Bionic to get ICS. In fact I'd be willing to bet it's one of the first non-nexus phones to recieve it. Being under the google umbrella is a good thing, which Motorola now is. As far as the buttons go, that's a software modification and I don't expect that to be much of a road block. Button remapping takes place all the time in custom kernels so the guys at Moto and or Google should be able to sort that out simple enough.
I was hoping so. It just seems one of the main ics features is no menu keys. I was just hoping it wouldn't have both
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ICS is being hailed as bringing tablets and phones together, so something as simple as disabling some on-screen menu buttons doesn't sound like something they would overlook.
Even if we ended up with some ****ed up version of ICS that made our phones have two rows of menu buttons, it wouldn't take longer than a day for the hackers here on XDA to figure out how to hide them.
Seems to me that our softkeys would work just fine w/ ICS... all the screengrabs I see have home, back, and multitasking buttons. Remap the menu key to be for multitasking, and you're set, with a bonus search key that duplicates whatever search function is integrated w/ ICS elsewhere.
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I think it kinda sucks that Samsung and Google are waiting on officially releasing ICS due to the passing of steve jobs. Yeah it can be respectful but that didnt stop apple from making money.
I doubt the Google acquisition will affect products in the pre-merger pipeline for a year. Short of layoffs, I've never seen a change in engineers assigned priorities right off the bat.
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I think it kinda sucks that Samsung and Google are waiting on officially releasing ICS due to the passing of steve jobs. Yeah it can be respectful but that didnt stop apple from making money.
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The release isn't pushed back, just the announcement.
And it was extremely classy in my opinion.
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mistawolfe said:
The release isn't pushed back, just the announcement.
And it was extremely classy in my opinion.
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Pretty sure no one gives two cents about your opinion
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Areghas quit trolling or get the hell out of here. All I have seen you do is try to start sh*t with droidth3ory or mistawolfe.
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Pretty sure no one gives two cents about your opinion
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Pretty sure your wrong.
We do not tolerate trolling here. Quit it or leave.
Last warning.
Back on topic please folks
I'm sure they have the ability to use the four keys just like 2.3.7 and below. I believe that they also said that it was the manufacturers choice when building phones and tablets which method they use back when they were first touring honeycomb on the XOOM. I'm sure that they won't give us two sets of keys and take up screen realestate.
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Thank you for all your responses.
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Nexus S will be the first phone to receive the update as far as previously sold phones without ICS. My Nexus S 4G has builtin soft keys as well. There's your answer
Just wanted to know what you guys think about the phone. I have my bionic but man the RAZR MAXX is pretty awesome to me for the battery life. Im thinking of getting that over the nexus. What do you guys think?
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I do like it but its not enough of an upgrade. I'll wait until Motorola puts out something with a slightly larger HD screen, no buttons and ICS.
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Just wanted to know what you guys think about the phone. I have my bionic but man the RAZR MAXX is pretty awesome to me for the battery life. Im thinking of getting that over the nexus. What do you guys think?
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I would like to own the razr maxx. I think it has Li-Po battery right? Like the IPhones
Plus an over 3000 mAh battery.
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I like it, but not enough to get it over the Galaxy Nexus. A locked bootloader is a locked bootloader and blur sucks. It also does not even have ICS, so don't hold your breath.
I just unloaded my nexus and am back to the bionic...with a rooted 901 it's not a bad phone. But that maxx would be killer for someone who doesn't like to worry about finding a charger. But as stated it really is more of a side step I think.
im sure it will get ics though. when it gets that ill compare it to the nexus
A better battery is always a plus, but I don't have many issues with my battery on the Bionic due to the fact that I charge it throughout the day (at my PC, in the car, before I sleep) and I use JuiceDefender.
I'm not sure how much better battery the MAXX has over the Bionic, but that definitely doesn't feel like much of an upgrade to me, either.
For 12 bucks I can buy a 3rd battery for my Bionic. Other then the lack of updates and rims for my bionic I love it. Oh yeah I can replace my battery the main reason I don't want an i phone from the get go. The bionic is still a beast.
the only good thing about the Maxx (aside from battery) is that itll make the original Droid Razr's price go down. I went to verizon and played with the galaxy nexus. While I love that its a Nexus device, the performance was identical to my rom'ed bionic so I might consider grabbing the Razr if the price is right
Not another one of these posts. Didn't we all go through this when the Razr was about to come out? Is this going to be a regular thing every time a new phone is announced?
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Not another one of these posts. Didn't we all go through this when the Razr was about to come out? Is this going to be a regular thing every time a new phone is announced?
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I agree
Hey guys Verizon needs to replace my Thunderbolt and after so many replacements they offered me a bionic. Would it be a good choice over my Bolt? We have S-off and Unlocked bootloader.
Pros of bionic:
Dual core 1.0ghz
1gb ram
Lots of great devs
Cons:
Stock has blur
Locked bootloader
And it's moto so probably no stock ics for about a year
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another PRO for Bionic is killer long battery life since the .901 update, .902 is killer battery life also.
I uses to have the thunderbolt. The bionic is a much better phone.
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smokedkill said:
I uses to have the thunderbolt. The bionic is a much better phone.
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Yeah this one's a no brainer. Get the bionic.
Regarding the above cons:
• Hexec workaround was recently posted allowing for custom kernels. This was really the last issue caused by the locked bootloader. In less than a month it will be old news
• There are CM9, AOKP, AOSP, and MIUI variants of ICS available now and improving daily. Who needs stock ICS?
My buddy has a tbolt and there's no comparison in the speed, responsiveness and battery life.
Bionic is on it's way with free extended battery
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nativi said:
Bionic is on it's way with free extended battery
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Free extended battery? How'd you manage that? #slickmoves
tuckmobile said:
Free extended battery? How'd you manage that? #slickmoves
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#slickmoves fo sho!!!
Well I told her I use the extended battery on my thunderbolt and told her that 4G phones have poor battery life. So she said ok free extended battery.
And now I'm getting $40 from a coworker for the thunderbolts extended battery and the verizon case I had. :thumbup:
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DUDE! Win Win WIN!
Well played, Sir.
Hopefully I will be getting mine..... I hate HTC.....
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I love HTC special how developer friendly they are.
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I love HTC special how developer friendly they are.
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I think the skilled developers are on Motorola though. Look at what these guys are doing with a locked bootloader. We got a handful of ice cream with a locked bootloader. How much more can they do if it was unlocked.
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im part of a concession line and we get upgrades every year. best buy mobile has been treating me so well that i just ended up buying the bionic. i got a tbolt for free and it was a great phone but when bionic came out like 2 months later i bought the bionic. i got it for 230 at cowboom.com. thats were we send all our phones that we get returned or serviced. its EXTREMELY cheap. spread it. i love my bionic and i plan on selling it tho. im using my tbolt because i got the infected rom on it with beats. i like it but i kind of miss my bionic. either way rezound here i come!!
Why would you NOT trade your garbage 3G tBolt for a bionic? Even if you had the data issues with the bionic, it's 100x better.
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Verizon is exchanging my Droid charge for the bionic, any thoughts on that? Which would you choose?
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Verizon is exchanging my Droid charge for the bionic, any thoughts on that? Which would you choose?
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Well so far I like it. Battery life is better then my bolt. I would get the bionic for sure. Also, just a hint tell them you saw online that to transfer data from your phone to the PC you need to Motorola USB cable just a heads up
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coldhardtruth said:
Why would you NOT trade your garbage 3G tBolt for a bionic? Even if you had the data issues with the bionic, it's 100x better.
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The tbolt is 4g. Although I do agree i would rather get the bionic.
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The tbolt is 4g. Although I do agree i would rather get the bionic.
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I Kno, i call it a 3G phone compared to a bionic. Sooooo slow. worst radio software ever.
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Actually now that I've had it I would have taken a bolt again is so weird all this stuff you have to do to flash anything. And it seems lime the only roms out are ics which are ok but still too many things broken for me. And there are no stock like roms with alot of features like on sense. But I like the phone. I just had more options on the bolt being I'm a themer I want something solid I can theme. But the bolt was the best phone for everything. And my data connection and speed is the same on both phones.
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One thing though is the bionic screen and colors in it suck big time
And the rom selection on the bolt was crazy huge.
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