These threads have gotten so old. What are you people doing to ur bionics? Mine is amazing. 4G with 1 gig dual core cpu 1 gig ram big beautiful screen + amazing extended battery plus ICS support and Motorola's quality. This is a top of the line phone. And if 4G is having a data outage, the TBolt isn't going to have 4G either. I could understand getting a defective device but if you've tried multiple ones as u say you have, instead of them all being bad phones, maybe the problem is not the phone? Maybe it is the person trying to use it. :/
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A vast majority of Bionic users have a lot of issues. I wen't through 3 Bionics.
I got the Bionic knowing about the data drop issues, figured Motorola would be speedy on the updates. So I dealt with data drops for a while, and it seemed to be happening to me more often than others at the time, I sent it back to see if it would make a difference. It didn't. So I sucked it up waited for the OTA. OTA came out, and my phone would NOT install the update. Get halfway through, fail, reboot. So I sent it back. Got another one, this time the update installed, and after it did, I could not hear anyone on the other line! It sounded all muffed and what not. Got fed up and just asked for a different phone, thus sending me the HTC Rezound.
Keep in mind I had only rooted the Bionic. No unofficial updates or anything on either one of those Bionics. I am also a power user and rely on my phone to just work at all times for work and my other extra curricular activities. I agree, the phones hardware specs are second to none, but the software issues they were having were just unbearable, and nothing I could do in troubleshooting wise could fix anything. And the 4G issues are related to the network at times yes, but it was also a huge issue with the software on the phone itself. Some had it worse than others, depending on how strong and reliable the 4G is in your area. I live in a smaller 4G market, and I live right on the 3G/4G line, and going back and forth everyday to work and school, it was a daily issue for me to keep 4G on and sometimes even 3G struggled. It was by far the most annoying issue ever.
Also keep in mind that not everyone roots and ROM's and installs leaks, believe it or not, we are a relatively small portion of users. The end user should not have to root and install mods/ROMs just to get their phone to work the way it was intended to. It should work and work flawlessly right out of the box, just like the i*hone. But the Bionic failed to do just that for so many users.
Got my Rezound, no issues, and no issues going back between 4G/3G on a daily basis. This Rezound just works.
So before you criticize the user, look at what your situation is, and realize that its not the same for every user in every 4G market, and that everyone uses the phone differently, and that some users are also oblivious to some issues cause they just don't care or notice them, when in fact they are having issues and just think its normal.
