need advice please 4g single core vs 3g dual core

[dabombk1]

I need to get a phone? smartphone (my first) quickly. I am a Verizon customer. No massive downloading or uploading is necessary. For efficient web browsing would you recommend a 4g single core phone or a 3g dual core phone? Thank you
Kevin
PS the phone will be primarily used in a 4g area

 

[akugami]

I think the 4G radios currently used are too power hungry if you care about battery life. While this will improve (early 3G phones were notoriously power hungry), it's not there yet. If you don't care about massive upload and downloads you're probably better off looking for a power efficient model of phone.

 

[dabombk1]

TY. Your thoughts on page load times? Will a dual core offset the extra 4g bandwidth?

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I have a thunderbolt and really satisfied with it (just got 4g today for the first time too). The network connection is the bottleneck for viewing webpages you can't offset it with processor. Even now with 4g eating my battery it lasted me the whole day although I was cutting it close.

 

[dabombk1]

TY, Ayashi any particular reason Thunderbolt over Charge? build, ram?

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

TY, Ayashi any particular reason Thunderbolt over Charge? build, ram?

Charge wasn't out, and I don't think it was even announced. I think I'd have gotten the thunderbolt even if it was though.

 

[soccerballtux]

depends on how much ram and how much battery life on the dual core. I would go for, in this order,
RAM
Processor
4g.

3G is plenty fast IMO. I don't have 3G, but I get by on 1xRTT (2.5g), it's 3x the speed of dialup.

I have my phone overclocked to 1.1ghz. That's plenty fast for everything I do on it-- my bottleneck is RAM. I need more of it.

If it's the Thunderbolt, I'd definitely get it (768mb RAM) over a dual core with 512MB ram. I haven't felt the processor was too slow, even at 600mhz (stock) on my phone.

 

[Red Storm]

With 4G you can just about instantly watch high quality youtube vids as well as media from streaming machines back home on the go, that alone was a major advantage over 3G phones for me. And yes, webpages load a heck of a lot faster too. The downside is battery life, but you can always turn off 4G when you don't need/want it running.

I got in on Verizon's 4G because there are rumors they will be discontinuing the current "unlimited" 4G in favor of tiered, so getting it now allows me to be grandfathered in.

 

[Deeko]

I would get the Charge on Verizon right now


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[Anubis]

unless you live in an area where you can get 4g coverage 100% of the time it is IMO 100% pointless to get a 4G phone

go with 3G

IMO go with either a DX2 next week or get an incredible 2 now

 

[Demo24]

You could always try and wait on the Bionic which should be dual core and LTE, but who knows when that will be released. Potentially in June, could be later though.


I am curious, is there any real guarantee of being grandfathered in on 4g data or is it just being assumed?

 

[Red Storm]

You could always try and wait on the Bionic which should be dual core and LTE, but who knows when that will be released. Potentially in June, could be later though.


I am curious, is there any real guarantee of being grandfathered in on 4g data or is it just being assumed?

I don't think there's a 100% guarantee, but if it's anything like the regular data, then it should be the same. A Verizon rep told me that if they did go to tiered (he couldn't confirm anything), any current 4G users would keep their plan as it is.

I made the jump since I both live and work in a 4G area, so I could make good use of it right away.

 

[smartpatrol]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/02/droid-charge-review/

The Droid Charge sounds like the phone you want. Similar performance to the Thunderbolt, but with much better battery life and a super AMOLED screen.

 

[you2]

This is my answer:
My Dad uses dialup and complains that his computer at home is much slower than the one at work. He wants to upgrade his computer to something modern. He uses his computer to web browse.
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Do you think upgrading his 1ghz computer with 2 gig of ram to a 3 ghz computer with 4 gig of ram will improve his web browsing experience ?

 

[dabombk1]

thank you everyone. Bandwidth rules

 

[Red Storm]

Do note though, the stock browser on the Charge is absolutely terrible if there's any bit of flash on a page (even with "On Demand" chosen for flash loading). I've been Xscope browser and it's done well, though honestly with all the apps out today you rarely have to actually use the browser for that kind of stuff anymore.

 

[tonygeor]

my bro has a thunderbolt and he has that connected to a charger constantly