Reasons to choose Bionic over iPhone 5

[kptphalkon]

the manufacturer life of a device has nothing to do with how long you'll actually get use out of it...

 

[gthotie5]

Your phone is the best of its kind for a whole year.
How does that have nothing to do with how long you'll get use out of it?

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[dankarlinski]

Because it doesn't. Unless you are one of those people that needs to have the newest thing every year that is... I still have a D1 that I used for a bit on verizon, and a blackberry curve on att that I bust out every once in awhile to play brickbreaker or something.

Until my D2 breaks, ill never stop using it. And I may get a new phone, but its still the backup.

Whether or not the phone is or isn't the best on the market doesn't really matter for me. What matters is that it is good enough to do what I need it for, and then play angry birds and gin rummy.

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[gthotie5]

Exactly! Thank you.
To certain people it does matter.

 

[Oxymoron]

Just came from the Verizon store. I was a little sad to realize that the display on my D1 looked better than every Android phone in there.

The X2 screen is exceptionally bad. It was definitely the brightest though. This is all for a different thread though.

Hmmm.

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[Arkbird]

Just came from the Verizon store. I was a little sad to realize that the display on my D1 looked better than every Android phone in there.

The X2 screen is exceptionally bad. It was definitely the brightest though. This is all for a different thread though.

Hmmm.

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Did they have any Droid 3's there?

 

[Oxymoron]

Nope, no D3's unfortunately. I'm really curious to see what that one looks like too.

 

[cubuff]

I just played with my gfs d3 on a break from work. The screen I saw no problems with,it looked great. But I wasn't sitting there TRYING to find problems with it. Definitely bigger and nicer than my d2g in my opinion.

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[Goodlefeed]

Well really all you need to know is...

Bionic: High end Android phone.
iPhone: iOS? Ew.

 

[Xerrus]

Don't care if it has an unlocked bootloader or not, I'm getting one. The Droid X didnt/doesn't have an unlocked bootloader but dev's could still spin magic with that device. The Dev community for this beast will be no different. They're a resilient bunch and will come through no matter what the bootloader's fate.

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[DoctorV]

I can't think of one reason to choose an iPhone5 over the Bionic

 

[slinky]

Reasons to choose a Bionic over the iPhone 5.

#1 - it's not an apple proprietary product that requires proprietary stuff up the wazoo to make most best use of the phone

#2 - After using my Thunderbolt, I really don't know why I'd care to get an iPhone. It really doesn't do anything better

 

[yiannis]

Areas in which Bionic is better

1) LTE (assuming iPhone 5 isn't LTE)
2) Integrated free continuously improving Google Maps/directions
3) Customization (assuming an unlockable bootloader or at least modifiable ROMs)
4) Widgets
5) 3rd party Apps
6) Adobe Flash
7) Extremely supportive community

Areas in which iPhone 5 is best

1) Music/podcasts/computer synchronization
2) Wider selection of Apps

So do I need to read the article?

Edit: I did read the article, and no I didn't need to, in fact the author is being quite modest.

 

[Vakharn]

Areas in which Bionic is better

1) LTE (assuming iPhone 5 isn't LTE)
2) Integrated free continuously improving Google Maps/directions
3) Customization (assuming an unlockable bootloader or at least modifiable ROMs)
4) Widgets
5) 3rd party Apps
6) Adobe Flash
7) Extremely supportive community

Areas in which iPhone 5 is best

1) Music/podcasts/computer synchronization
2) Wider selection of Apps

So do I need to read the article?

Edit: I did read the article, and no I didn't need to, in fact the author is being quite modest.

I was under the impression that the android app market surpassed the apple app store months ago.

 

[A2Aegis]

Areas in which Bionic is better

1) LTE (assuming iPhone 5 isn't LTE)
2) Integrated free continuously improving Google Maps/directions
3) Customization (assuming an unlockable bootloader or at least modifiable ROMs)
4) Widgets
5) 3rd party Apps
6) Adobe Flash
7) Extremely supportive community

Areas in which iPhone 5 is best

1) Music/podcasts/computer synchronization
2) Wider selection of Apps

So do I need to read the article?

Edit: I did read the article, and no I didn't need to, in fact the author is being quite modest.

I was under the impression that the android app market surpassed the apple app store months ago.

It could surpass the App Store in August. Not a sure thing yet.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/05/android-market-apple-app-store_n_858356.html