Not quite sold on the Droid Bionic but want to stay motorola

[ilikemoneygreen]

In thinking about this guys, The iPhone 5 is really going to have to step up.... If the targa truly is quad core, then yikes, will have some competition. The targa is expected before christmas so yeh, Just as an observation. I dout a simple duel core like the ipad 2 will do it.

 

[bkircher]

So what would be more important in the Bionics case, Ram or the processor?? Its obviously going to have a kick butt processor, but is 512mb of ram enough?? I mean, I dont remember in the past of ram being such a big part in a phone, its always been about the processor. Am I right?

I love how my question gets ignored... Anyone care to answer the quoted above question?

 

[jaycemiskel]

They're both equally important. You can't have the fastest processor in the world but if you don't have enough ram to keep the programs open you're still going to have problems. It's easier to reach a point where you have enough ram, once you've got enough adding more doesn't make much of a difference. 512 is probably enough ram for now but in the future it may be a limiting factor.

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[jaycemiskel]

I meant can not can't.

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[Hugh Jass]

As for the Camera being 13MP, grrrr...why won't they focus (pun intended) on the quality of the lens and software instead of tricking people with marketing ploys. I'd easily pay an extra $50 to have a great camera built in. =-(

haha, keep dreaming. Hes already teased and told us the needed info. If he gave specifics then his sources might go cold the next time... Their will always be another device after this, thus a need to not burn bridges. If Ck could keep this stuff up, then id be a happy man. lol, it could be just limited to thumbs up, thumbs down or in the middle and id be happy. Thumbs up is the jaw dropper though, middle is like the bionic, while good not to fanstastic. Then thumbs down would be ehhhhh its the TB (an upgraded EVO) lol.

I'm just razzin' ck man, I didn't actually expect details.

Not to be random here, but i have read your name countless times on this forum and today i read it aloud to myself and got it. It has finally clicked. :rofl3: Kind of like Mike Roch off of the simpsons on one of weird als cd's.

It was actually my ironic nickname in High School, it was a joke because I'm pretty athletic and in shape but I was smaller than most. After that it just kinda stuck and became an school wide joke and excuse for everyone to say huge ass out loud in class, lol. There is more to how it all got started but I can't explain it here, mods wouldn't appreciate that haha.

 

[SR20S13]

In thinking about this guys, The iPhone 5 is really going to have to step up.... If the targa truly is quad core, then yikes, will have some competition. The targa is expected before christmas so yeh, Just as an observation. I dout a simple duel core like the ipad 2 will do it.

they said dual core phones would be out by the end of last year also, i don't think that they will be out till this time next year if not later cell phone companies are already still working with the dual cores so quad cores won't prob. be starting to make till at least September or October, and there will be delays so look about a year from now to get a quad core

 

[kodiak799]

they said dual core phones would be out by the end of last year also, i don't think that they will be out till this time next year if not later cell phone companies are already still working with the dual cores so quad cores won't prob. be starting to make till at least September or October, and there will be delays so look about a year from now to get a quad core

You are probably right. I see some real need and benefit to the dual cores, but I don't see much use for quad cores until the OS catches up to serve as a true PC replacement (just plug into a laptop or tablet dock). And that's the sort of thing that could cause me to switch to WinMo if they had full Office suite functionality.

Of course, for browsing which is the main use for most people, the Atrix is already pretty much there. Bionic with HDMI mirror I think will be about the same.

As far as browsing and video, forget tethering - the killer app would be using bluetooth to control your phone with your PC keyboard/trackpad and getting data piped via HDMI mirror. Knowing that will come (if it's not already out there) is why the carriers will all have to go to limited plans, or start charging quite a bti more than $30 for unlimited.

 

[ilikemoneygreen]

they said dual core phones would be out by the end of last year also, i don't think that they will be out till this time next year if not later cell phone companies are already still working with the dual cores so quad cores won't prob. be starting to make till at least September or October, and there will be delays so look about a year from now to get a quad core

You are probably right. I see some real need and benefit to the dual cores, but I don't see much use for quad cores until the OS catches up to serve as a true PC replacement (just plug into a laptop or tablet dock). And that's the sort of thing that could cause me to switch to WinMo if they had full Office suite functionality.

Of course, for browsing which is the main use for most people, the Atrix is already pretty much there. Bionic with HDMI mirror I think will be about the same.

As far as browsing and video, forget tethering - the killer app would be using bluetooth to control your phone with your PC keyboard/trackpad and getting data piped via HDMI mirror. Knowing that will come (if it's not already out there) is why the carriers will all have to go to limited plans, or start charging quite a bti more than $30 for unlimited.

just my 2 cents but i dont think these tablets are meant to be pc replacements. your right though, if it was i wouldnt be doing android, it would be a windows 7 or the next version. Here is a quad core processor, can view sveral of the vids to. That is the real use for better processors. Games and programs are smoother and arnt glitched out.

 

[kodiak799]

just my 2 cents but i dont think these tablets are meant to be pc replacements.

Not now, but that's the direction (well, actually I think smartphones become a 3-in-1 device).

Just think that my dual-core PC running 1.8ghz was plenty fast for everything I did except resource-intensive Office files. I'd think a dual-core 1.5ghz phone/tablet would be sufficient.

 

[cloudkikr]

To me there really isn't much subpar equipment. I wouldn't purchase a single core phone but spec wise a lot of these phones are beginning to become similar so I would rather have the unlocked phone. Moto likes to lock things down so I already know I won't be able to upgrade to the newest version of the OS when it's released. If I was going on purely specs though the Bionic wouldn't win just because of the ram. Maybe their future phones will be better in the ram department. The X2 is rumoured to have a 1gb so that's a step in the right direction.

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I believe that I read somewhere that the bionic has 512 of DDR2. If that's true I really wouldn't be comparing it and blowing it off.. Fair to say that most puerile are still rocking ddr2 in their desktops.
Just saying that's pretty dam impressive imho

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[jaycemiskel]

You're correct, it's DDR2. It's impressive for a phone. However I've been using DDR3 in my computer for over a year. They've got a little while before they catch up to computers.

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[cloudkikr]

Agreed. I've been using ddr3 in my pc as well and I highly doubt.. .. Actually can guarantee that no phone will ever be on par with even a current midrange pc. I'm saying comparing 1gb of ram in the tb to 512 if ddr2in the bionic, and disregarding the ddr2 seems a little silly to me.

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[ilikemoneygreen]

Haha i forgot to put link in my post above. [video=youtube;yab7mv9yOm8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yab7mv9yOm8"]Sorry guys, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yab7mv9yOm8[/video]

 

[jaycemiskel]

Agreed. I've been using ddr3 in my pc as well and I highly doubt.. .. Actually can guarantee that no phone will ever be on par with even a current midrange pc. I'm saying comparing 1gb of ram in the tb to 512 if ddr2in the bionic, and disregarding the ddr2 seems a little silly to me.

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Doesn't the Thunderbolt have 768mb of ram? The only thing is, it doesn't matter how fast your ram is if you don't have enough of it imo.

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[kodiak799]

I'm saying comparing 1gb of ram in the tb to 512 if ddr2in the bionic, and disregarding the ddr2 seems a little silly to me.

If 512 is sufficient for now and what is coming, then Bionic is better. If 512 is insufficient, then no matter how much faster DDR2 is the user experience will suffer. If you run a light home theme then Bionic is probably better, but if you're a power user with a ton of apps and widgets 512 is probably not enough and the speed won't matter when your phone doesn't have the horses to do what you want it to.