I hope you don't love it as much as I did... I got the lapdock ... HD dock … car dock …. extended batteries (2) ... And cases.. all beause moto said unlocked bootloaders And ICS ... now I'm sitting here watching Samsung get cyanogen and bionic only got 400 people viewing the entire bionic forum.... its over and i just never saw it coming... i fell for it but i won't do it again
For starters, why even say that? Why make someone, even if they are a troll, mad because of your bad experience? And what exactly did you guys fall for? I only heard very minor speculation about the Bionic having ICS on release or being unlocked. Follow any smartphone for a few months, it's nothing but rumors. All the leaked releases are evidence of that. If you're blaming the "device to rule them all" marketing campaign, but were then disappointed by the 4g networks inability to follow through, then you learned a lesson that marketing is marketing and they always have and forever will talk every product up like it's the best. Having worked in retail for almost 3 years, this is how you make a sale. IMO The Bionic is awesome, and is infinitely better than my Eris and x2. I seriously and sincerely think the VAST MAJORITY of people with connection issues are the ones on the forums, making it seem like a widespread issue when it's really not. Every person I know who has a Bionic, a good 7 or so after Xmas, report 0 data drops, OTHER than the national outages. I personally approached each one of them and probed them for information, almost TRYING to get them to admit to it. I never had any drops until just recently, and I certainly am not blaming the Bionic for it since it's happening on all 4g phones.
As for there only being 400 viewers,
on droidforums, the phone is almost 5 months old now, and in the world of smartphones, that's hitting the 40-50 year old age range. So yeah it's not as popular as it was, but it's not really any different from other phones life span. The x2 was down to 250 or so only 2 months after release. It was rooted within a week of release and has had plenty of ROMs released. 901 made a lot of those incompatible, and since it's fairly new, they've had to redesign them.
I understand your frustration, I really do, but at this point just sitting in the corner venting that anger towards other people is just so old. Especially since updates are available which have fixed just about every issue. All the new phones since are now dealing with their issues. This is the cycle! Embrace it. So just be patient, take a few deep breaths, and before you know it CM9-15 will be on the Bionic. Also don't EVER buy anything from a Verizon employee other than the phone. All of that stuff is almost 50% cheaper online and two extended batteries is incredibly unnecessary. I also learned this the hard way. So if product wise is what you're referring to, then yeah that is a major rip off.
I don't want to come off as a prick, but coming on this forum since release date, there's just no point at complaining about old issues which aren't the norm. I didn't "fall" for anything and I have the same phone as you. Feel free to be angry about your issues, but don't force them down other people's throat. Ok, end rant which makes me look like an *** hole.