Thunderbolt or bionic?

[gmfk]

Ram is what had me all about the tb in the beginning but the dual core as well as a few other things has me waiting for the bionic. Also not having an upgrade till july has alot to do with it. I'm also into the smaller size of the phone. I don't care about a big screen rather the performance. As for the bootloader even if its locked I imagine they'll be ways around it.

sent from my rooted project elite d1

 

[wooddale]

Want the bionic but then dont want to wait forever either. I have 4g at home wright by Ohara airport

 

[nyeshia0431]

Bionic all the way

 

[VolDroid]

I think I'll be waiting on the Bionic.

 

[snoop5]

dont think the difference in ram will matter as the bionic will have 512 ddr from what im aware of, making it a better phone. but thats just my op

 

[Chizzele]

Bionic will support simultaneous talk & surf... so.. bionic for me

 

[huskur]

Bionic will support simultaneous talk & surf... so.. bionic for me

TB is the first phone to do just that

 

[JeffP]

I waited so long for the TB I started reading how much better the Bionic will be. I checked out the TB today and was not impressed. Held side by side with the Droid X the X had better screen resolution and felt better in my big hands. Also there is 8gb internal memory on the TB and I checked how much memory was being used with the few apps it had installed and there was only 2 gb's of memory left. The rep had no explaination. I could live with the TB but I prefer to wait alittle longer then compare both side by side.

 

[mitchb2]

I'm telling you, this TB is the shiznit. It's amazing. I'm not sure what the bionic will give you if you wait, because this thing smokes.

 

[Stormy Knight]

Both have locked bootloaders. For those that thought the TB was unlocked, what would you choose now?

 

[brenneisec]

Both have locked bootloaders. For those that thought the TB was unlocked, what would you choose now?

tb has been unlocked

 

[kodiak799]

Thunderbolt will perform better over all IMO due to the increased RAM. Also having two CPU's doesn't mean much if you're castrated by a lack of RAM.

That's actually a really great point. And with roms coming it will do wonders for the TB battery life and any sluggishness do to having less CPU.

But then the Bionic also has HDMI out...I'll probably test drive the Bionic when it comes out and if it doesn't have enough ram for my needs I'll return it and get the TBolt. Probably going retail so I'll only have it about 6 months, anyway until my upgrade comes.

 

[jntdroid]

If you'll be recommitting to 2 years, and you wait for the Bionic instead of the Thunderbolt now, isn't it possible "unlimited" data will be gone?

Sent from my Droid

 

[mkjellgren]

If you'll be recommitting to 2 years, and you wait for the Bionic instead of the Thunderbolt now, isn't it possible "unlimited" data will be gone?

Sent from my Droid

Yup. Pretty much guaranteed the bionic will launch with tiered 4g pricing where as the bolt is grandfathered into unlimited 4g data at no additional cost above your current 3g plan.

Also, whoever said they both are locked down is right. Every Android phone except the nexus phones has a locked bootloader. There is a HUGE difference between locked and encrypted though. The tb has locked bootloader, but is not encrypted. Moto phones after the d1 have encrypted bootloaders. Hence why the bolt has been rooted and completely unlocked only days after release and the moto phones have just now, many months later, truly been unlocked.
The bionic will be locked down as tight or tighter than any previous phone considering the recent leak of the d2/x bootloader keys.

In short, bolt is locked but not encrypted and has already been cracked wide open. The bionic will be locked and probably encrypted and will take a long time to truly unlock. The bionic will be rooted quickly, but with an encrypted bootloader, custom kernels and therefore true aosp roms will be all but impossible.

I went with the bolt...

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[kodiak799]

Yup. Pretty much guaranteed the bionic will launch with tiered 4g pricing

Everyone thought the same thing with the TBolt. VZW has said tiered plans by mid-summer (and possibly not until later in the year) and the Bionic is supposed to be out by then.

There really is no reason for VZW to complicate things for themselves and their customers when they can just throttle beyond a certain point. And as long as they restrict or crack down on tethering, the vast majority of people will only consume so much data on a smartphone to begin with. Without video (which most people don't want to watch much on a tiny screen) and torrents (most of which are illegal) it takes some work to hit 2gigs. I could do it playing Pandora an hour a day, but I could just as easily play mp3's on my phone that don't use any data.