Best buy giving 301$ gift card for bionic.

[BOA]

I'm not even seeing the Bionic on the list of phones available for trade-in. How are you getting online quotes?
Update: never mind!! Found it.

 

[Character Zero]

You gotta scroll down to the bottom of the list : XT875 / DROID BIONIC

 

[BOA]

You gotta scroll down to the bottom of the list : XT875 / DROID BIONIC

Thanks brotha, found it.

 

[MrCapcom]

What are you guys including with this when you do it? Because I have just a extended and a charger. Will they take that?

 

[Speeding Wheels]

I took the original box, original cable and wall charger and the original battery/cover.
She gave me back the 16GB MicroSD and SIM cards.

I did not take the extended battery or car charger I have.

She was very impressed by the condition of my phone.. it really was pristine.
And she didnt notice 5.7.893 on it... or didnt say anything at least.

 

[MrCapcom]

Dag cause I don't have the orginal box or cable (I have a Droid 2 Charger) Only have Extended Battery Back.
I got the phone as a refurb for my tbolt. Think the would still take it? Its in great condition as well

 

[Speeding Wheels]

take it in and see.
each rep is different

the girl today had to search for a good 10 mins to find the Bionic in the system.. it's listed under a generic Motorola Droid ... so tell the CSR to keep looking because the system might not show Bionic in the title.

 

[yiannis]

Read the full thread.

My question is, is the Samsung phone worth it? It's probably slower (more pixels) which is easily the most important thing to me on a phone. And my extended battery has more capacity than the GNex one.

I'm now used to the screen

 

[Speeding Wheels]

Read the full thread.

My question is, is the Samsung phone worth it? It's probably slower (more pixels) which is easily the most important thing to me on a phone. And my extended battery has more capacity than the GNex one.

I'm now used to the screen

I played with the GNex in store and my impression was no... it's not worth it.
But thats just me playing with a display phone and lord only knows how much crap was running in the background.
It was laggy flipping screen to screen and the app tray was extremely laggy. Again tho, it was a display device.

I also dont like the build quality. It just feels cheap to me.
That being said, it's very exciting to have the unlockable bootloader and the sheer number of Dev's who have jumped on the GNex is impressive as well. I'm sure something like Pete's ICS for GNex runs fast and smooth as hell.

And all that being said... the battery is STILL the #1 concern with that device.

 

[Character Zero]

Well I wish I had seen this when I just went down to the BB Mobile store. Couldn't find Bionic in the system and told me I had to do it online. Dang, and I don't have time to go back. I guess I will just do it online since I am not using the phone.

 

[BOA]

I played with the GNex in store and my impression was no... it's not worth it.
But thats just me playing with a display phone and lord only knows how much crap was running in the background.
It was laggy flipping screen to screen and the app tray was extremely laggy. Again tho, it was a display device.

I also dont like the build quality. It just feels cheap to me.
That being said, it's very exciting to have the unlockable bootloader and the sheer number of Dev's who have jumped on the GNex is impressive as well. I'm sure something like Pete's ICS for GNex runs fast and smooth as hell.

And all that being said... the battery is STILL the #1 concern with that device.

This was my experience as well. The phone was just flat out laggy. It goes against anything I've read about this phone so I was chalking it to being a display phone. My Bionic just killed it, it was smoother than the Gnex. That being said ICS is really nice and takes some time to get used to. I'm still not sold on the phone although I'm keeping my options open. I really like my Bionic BUT I like the fact that all the Devs are now on the Gnex and are fast working on a ROM. I think the Bionic is going to be neglected which to me has been already. Unlocked bootloader is really nice. I miss those days. So I haven't crossed it out yet but I wish I could get it and still keep my phone. For $800?? No way.

 

[Character Zero]

So I went from a Thunderbolt -> Bionic -> Galaxy Nexus. I liked the Bionic more than the Thunderbolt but hated that the bootloader was locked and this recent OTA mess isn't helping things. The battery was good, I could turn the brightness all the way down and the screen still was bright enough. But I made the mistake of playing with the Gnex and I fell in love with it. Love the plain black screen, it has nice colors, nice resolution. Not really laggy. Running a OC kernel with a profile to underclock when the screen is off and I am getting great battery life. I don't get the "plasticy" feel, feels solid to me. I have it in a 2 part soft silicon/hard plastic case so it feels like a phone in a case now. But each to their own, but it was worth it when I paid $650 for it and its going to be more worth it if I can get the $301 GC from BB.

 

[Shibbdroid]

I am very glad this worked for me, my nexus is leaps and bounds passed my old bionic.

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using DroidForums

 

[Character Zero]

I am running the deodexed 4.0.2 rom with some mods (blue softkeys, search added to softkey, battery percentage, reboot into recovery on power down menu). Also using the Touch My Wookie 0.3 kernel from Team Bamf and getting great battery with the screen off profile at 350/350 and default otherwise.

 

[Speeding Wheels]

PHEW!
Got in just in time.. the online estimator is now showing $89.00