Hey guys, iPhone AND Android owner here. Mainly because I wanted something new that wasn't an iPhone 4 with Siri.
Anyways, I've had the Droid Bionic for a little over a week now and wanted to compare and contrast what I like and hate about it compared to the iPhone.
First off, it's huge. Not quite as big as the prime, but huge in its own right. I have large hands, so that doesn't bother me. Even then, I still find the size of the iPhone 4 to fit ever so nicely in my palm.
The battery one the bionic was awful for the first few days. So awful that I barely used it and in 5 hours, it was dying. I deleted a bunch of widgets and that seemed to help, it still gets crushed by the iPhone's battery in terms of heavy usage. It's really a shame, because it's a fun phone to use overall.
I love the google voice search that competes with Siri. Obviously, it's not as fun as siri, but it works just the same. It almost never gets wrong what I am dictating. When I'm alone, I use it to text almost all the time. It's still awkward to talk to my phone when people are around though.
The number on thing that I love about Android and that I will wish until the day that I die is implemented on the iPhone is the Swype keyboard. I can text 10 times faster and 5 times more accurate with it. It's wonderful. When I switch back to iPhone 5 next year and get rid of the Bionic, I'm really going to miss it.
The design of the phone really annoys me. It's big an ugly, and I just hate the way it looks in my hands, but I didn't have the patience to wait for the Prime or the Razr in the mail, and truthfully, I think those are ugly as well. I almost got the 4S, except I changed my mind when I would have had to wait 2 weeks for that as well.
Overall, I love the widgets and useful things you can do on the Android, but it irritates me that I have to have Push email off or it drains my battery incredibly fast. My work depends on email based communication and i need my emails on time.
The Bionic is a nice device. It is better than an iPhone? Hell no.
4G = Amazingly fast. It's honestly faster than my home internet when I tether sometimes. Not always, but when my cable modem decides to get a little laggy, I switch to tethering. Which by the way is unlimited. How? I have no idea. I switched around on a family share with my mother and she was grandfathered in and they asked me If i wanted unlimited tethering for $30 a month. I said hell yes. I didn't even know they EVER offered an unlimited tethering plan on VZW.
But like I said, the Bionic is missing too much. Mainly in the UI that makes it just not very fun to use. I'll be switching back to iPhone in the coming year. That's for sure.
Hopefully this helps anyone else looking to maybe switch or add a second phone to their line.
Later.
Anyways, I've had the Droid Bionic for a little over a week now and wanted to compare and contrast what I like and hate about it compared to the iPhone.
First off, it's huge. Not quite as big as the prime, but huge in its own right. I have large hands, so that doesn't bother me. Even then, I still find the size of the iPhone 4 to fit ever so nicely in my palm.
The battery one the bionic was awful for the first few days. So awful that I barely used it and in 5 hours, it was dying. I deleted a bunch of widgets and that seemed to help, it still gets crushed by the iPhone's battery in terms of heavy usage. It's really a shame, because it's a fun phone to use overall.
I love the google voice search that competes with Siri. Obviously, it's not as fun as siri, but it works just the same. It almost never gets wrong what I am dictating. When I'm alone, I use it to text almost all the time. It's still awkward to talk to my phone when people are around though.
The number on thing that I love about Android and that I will wish until the day that I die is implemented on the iPhone is the Swype keyboard. I can text 10 times faster and 5 times more accurate with it. It's wonderful. When I switch back to iPhone 5 next year and get rid of the Bionic, I'm really going to miss it.
The design of the phone really annoys me. It's big an ugly, and I just hate the way it looks in my hands, but I didn't have the patience to wait for the Prime or the Razr in the mail, and truthfully, I think those are ugly as well. I almost got the 4S, except I changed my mind when I would have had to wait 2 weeks for that as well.
Overall, I love the widgets and useful things you can do on the Android, but it irritates me that I have to have Push email off or it drains my battery incredibly fast. My work depends on email based communication and i need my emails on time.
The Bionic is a nice device. It is better than an iPhone? Hell no.
4G = Amazingly fast. It's honestly faster than my home internet when I tether sometimes. Not always, but when my cable modem decides to get a little laggy, I switch to tethering. Which by the way is unlimited. How? I have no idea. I switched around on a family share with my mother and she was grandfathered in and they asked me If i wanted unlimited tethering for $30 a month. I said hell yes. I didn't even know they EVER offered an unlimited tethering plan on VZW.
But like I said, the Bionic is missing too much. Mainly in the UI that makes it just not very fun to use. I'll be switching back to iPhone in the coming year. That's for sure.
Hopefully this helps anyone else looking to maybe switch or add a second phone to their line.
Later.
. Can't wait until iPhone 5 has 4G LTE 
