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The major problem with any overlay like Sense is the degree it changes the stock android experience.
For example Sense completely changes the behavior of the 4 buttons on the bottom and the menu's as well. So if I go to my fathers who has a HTC and he asks me to fix something - I have no clue how to navigate the menu's. It's annoying and it makes me want to hurl it across the room.
Moto's Blur adds a few nice apps and some bloat. That's it. Otherwise it's stock.
exactly! Thats why I made the argument that the "moto experience" is smaller, less intrusive, easier to deal with, and the closest UI you can get to vannilla as possible. Sense is a really really fat UI. Its like comparing a chevy avalanche to a chevy silverado. Basically the same vehichles, but the ave has so much plastic, and redundant storage features that it adds around 500-1000 pounds of extra crap to the truck and slows it down to a crawl compared to its standard pickup sister truck. Just like sense...:mad:
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Originally Posted by electric6
well and the avalanche looses towing capacity due to running coil-over rears instead of leaf springs... dont forget the vortech max and tremec trans options :icon_ devil:... eh anyway.
I for one LOVE HTC phones, my wife has an incredible, and even with a screen that got shattered in the top left corner from a 5ft drop onto concrete with no cover it still functions 100% and has a solid data connection, something I can NOT say about my bionic. I've been a moto fan since day one with my second phone (KRZR). I'm gonna do whatever I can to get out of the bionic and onto a RAZR. Other than that the super brilliant display on the nexus would be amazing! As for blur... it's amazing on the bionic, and thats to me coming from a vanilla (Pete's "OTA style" 2.3.4 rom) D1. Love the few widgets blur adds and in fact use most of them everyday.. (contacts, traffic, etc)
faster processor sounds even more awesome haQuote:
Originally Posted by reload1972
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Could I have your thunderbolt since your getting the razr? I'm still rocking the D1 and getting kicked off the family plan here soon since I'm turning 18. I'm absolutely in love with the android OS.
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I loved my original Moto Droid but after awhile the software world became too much for him and I had to move onto a droid with better hardware....(he still lives today in FL, gave him to my father who does less stuff with devices than I do and he loves it)
I've had the iphone 3g, iphone 4, Droid X, Droid Pro, HTC Thunderbolt, Droid Incredible 2, the Samsung Galaxy S2 & now the Droid Bionic....
I haven't been as excited about any device as I was with the original droid until I got the Bionic...My bionic is stupidly fast with moderate-heavy use resulting in no less than a 65% power left on a normal battery when I wake up the next morning (i charge mostly on my pc via usb when I'm working during the day & I don't charge at night) this is only possible with root and a thorough cleaning of verizon & google preinstalled junk....
The Bionic is well built & it's lightning in a can, nothing I've seen or listed above is a fair comparison, nothing goes from maps navigation to checking something on google to answering a call or ending a call and switching back to navigation as smooth & quick as a rooted & cleaned Bionic...
If you root you will not like the Droid Razr...not because of the lock bootloader which is probably only a temporary issue but those who root will hate it because there isn't a simple way to open the back cover & remove the battery...no battery pulls while attempting to root ESPECIALLY when attempting to use a custom rom in the future will make it a very risky process and not worth having a $650 space rock...
The razr specs are minimally better than the bionic BUT the screen of an AMOLED will make you look at the bionic's pentile screen like an 80's calculator...maybe even an etch-a-sketch there's just no question which is better visibly, but battery wise I like seeing that moderate use on the bionic only translates into 2% of battery use eaten by the display on the battery performance chart in settings....If you're that hot on the thunderbolt I'd wait for it's successor since you sound like HTC appeals to you....
Why do you have to take out the battery?Quote:
Originally Posted by indee2025
Anyways, I’ve had the Eris since it came out and rooted cuz Sense is crap and HTC is weak (at least on the eris, but it was that bad) so I’m debating getting the RAZR or the BIONIC.
I guess I’ll wait for the RAZR to come out to see... but i prefer battery life and an easy root and a screen that doesnt kill your eyesight, and the least amount of harmful radiation possible... so hmmmm.
What about the RAZR vs. the Galaxy Nexus?
I'm not sure why everyone is worried about Battery pulls. None of the Honeycomb or Android tablets have a removeable battery but have key combos for full resets. It hasbeen confirmed that the battery is replaceable like the iphone by vzw techs or those in the know.
That is a downside... its nice to have the option to have a back up battery if you wont be near a charger for a while... i guess ill see the battery life for the razr... :icon_eek: