Droid 4 vs Rezound vs Bionic

[Raswan]

I think I'm going to go with the Rezound. Anand's bench shows it has worse wifi and cell talk time than the Bionic though. Are those benches done with the default profiles? Is it possible to set up a profile to turn off 3/4G while browsing on wifi to improve battery life?

Go with the Bionic. The Rezound is for people who buy Beats by Dre, which is all you need to know about it.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Go with the Bionic. The Rezound is for people who buy Beats by Dre, which is all you need to know about it.

What a terrible recommendation. You're really telling him to go with a phone with outdated specs just because the Rezound has Beats By Dre built in?

 

[soccerballtux]

Graphics and CPU are better on S3 than OMAP 4430 though?

Just root and install custom ROMs 🙂

all built-from-source custom roms are buggy as crap. Tired of constantly installing nightlys to get fixes for show-stopper bugs that still happened to be in CM7 full-releases.

 

[podspi]

What a terrible recommendation. You're really telling him to go with a phone with outdated specs just because the Rezound has Beats By Dre built in?

Bionic may not be a new model, but how are its specs outdated in any way? The only thing you could argue is outdated is its screen. The nice thing about pentile is that it is readable outside, so if you aren't watching movies on your telephone, but want to read your screen in bright sun, the screen is a plus...

 

[Raswan]

Bionic may not be a new model, but how are its specs outdated in any way? The only thing you could argue is outdated is its screen. The nice thing about pentile is that it is readable outside, so if you aren't watching movies on your telephone, but want to read your screen in bright sun, the screen is a plus...

Agreed. Maybe I should have said the Bionic 4G though, since that is what I was referring to. Either way, both are good choices instead of the Rezound, which performs worse in every respect and tries to differentiate itself instead by marketing it as an iPod.

 

[ponyo]

Who are you crazy people recommending Bionic phone? I don't know if you guys are trolling or not.

 

[dguy6789]

I have had a Droid Bionic, Droid Razr, Rezound, and currently have a Galaxy Nexus. The Bionic was pretty close to a perfect phone if you put the extended battery on it. I miss very badly the outdoor visibility that phone had. I kind of doubt I'll ever see another phone in the future with that kind of outdoor visibility with the current trend of using AMOLED and SLCD.

 

[corkyg]

All interesting opinions. Which one performs best as a mobile wi-fi hot spot?

 

[podspi]

Who are you crazy people recommending Bionic phone? I don't know if you guys are trolling or not.

What's so wrong about the Bionic that people suggesting it could be miscontrued as trolling? I'm genuinely interested 😕

I don't even have a Bionic (as I said earlier, I have a D4), but I know someone who does. She bought the extended battery and loves the heck out of it.

If I didn't need the keyboard (and by need I mean really, really, really want), I would have gone with the Bionic as well.

Edit:

All interesting opinions. Which one performs best as a mobile wi-fi hot spot?

The D4 works great as a hotspot (using FoxFi or Wireless tether) BUT it burns through batteries at a frightening pace. ~ 20%+ in an hour? I was on 4G and was downloading a large file at the time, so of course YMMV

 

[ponyo]

What's so wrong about the Bionic that people suggesting it could be miscontrued as trolling? I'm genuinely interested 😕

I don't even have a Bionic (as I said earlier, I have a D4), but I know someone who does. She bought the extended battery and loves the heck out of it.

If I didn't need the keyboard (and by need I mean really, really, really want), I would have gone with the Bionic as well.

There was major data dropping issue with Bionic radio. I don't know if that's been resolved or not. I just remember people with the phone complaining about it and dumping it because of it. Similar to how everyone abandoned the TBolt.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

There was major data dropping issue with Bionic radio. I don't know if that's been resolved or not. I just remember people with the phone complaining about it and dumping it because of it. Similar to how everyone abandoned the TBolt.

When I was running the stable releases (Android 2.x) on it, my radio was really stable. Now that I'm on ICS I sometimes get issues, but that's to be expected on such early builds. Plus it's easy to just hit airplane mode and back out again. At worst is a reboot which takes a grand total of 2 minutes at most.

The Bionic with extended battery has been a good phone. I got it just to upgrade to 4g from my D1 about 6 months ago planning to upgrade a few months later. I'm about 6 months into it and I am enjoying the phone. ICS is amazing on it, and in the next month or so I'd expect it to have things figured out. Compared to my D1 I'd put this phone about the same level (some issues that the D1 didn't have like encrypted bootloaders and not as solid feeling). The screen is great, it flies on ICS, battery lasts a long time (extended that is), and overall a good phone. Friends have the Rezound and I still prefer my Bionic over their Rezound. Admittedly a big part of that is the lack of ICS on the Rezound, but still.

 

[Rambusted]

If you are on Verizon the Droid Razr Maxx and the Galaxy Nexus are the two best phones available at the moment. If you care about ICS the Galaxy Nexus is the best option by far since it is the ICS reference phone and gets updates directly from Google.

Really? Thats what the nexus s owners thought and they got ICS after the htc vivid did lol.

 

[FearoftheNight]

Guys I have the rezound and I would really recommend it. Unlocked Bootloaded and great dev community. Search xda for Scrosler's ICS ROM...really amazing. Removable battery, expandable storage, nice fast camera, you can sell the headphones for $70 to 80 and it also has a 720p screen. Only competition in quality on VZ is the GN and the Razr Maxx but only for the super battery.