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KatieMCR said:
This Droid Bionic will be a significant upgrade over my current Motorola Droid1. My Droid is starting to feel quite outdated with all the new phones that have been coming out. I've been itching for an upgrade, but wanted to wait to see what would come with Verizon's 4G network. Looking like I made a good choice in waiting. Another thing I really love about the Droid Bionic is the HDMI output. You can connect it to an HDTV and it will mirror everything in 1080p. The 8 MP camera is also capable of recording video at 720p HD. It's looking like a very exciting phone. Just wonder how much it will cost. Wouldn't be surprised to have to drop around $300 (after discounts) on it.
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Yeah that Droid Bionic is pretty awesome. If Verizon 4G hits SLC anytime soon I'll probably have to consider it.

T-Mobile also announced they are doubling the speed of their "4G" network. And during their press conference where they announced it, one of the reporters asked if their current network is 4G and they are doubling the speed, what will they call the new network?

Even though it isn't really 4G it will still be 42 megs though, with expected real world speeds of 25 megs. That will be pretty amazing.

Verizon LTE is getting around 18-20 megs up and down in real world usage so far. But that is with basically nobody on the network and only with data cards on a computer (no phones yet). So those numbers will probably come down when these phones start to hit the streets. Should still be ridiculously fast though.
 
David Stern said:
Is there anything out yet that is better than the Evo?
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Not yet. But the phone in the first post in this thread owns the Evo in every imaginable way. So does the Bionic that Katie was talking about. Heck, there have probably been 10 phones or so announced at CES that own the Evo in every imaginable way. They should all be on store shelves sometime during the first half of this year.
 
SaltyDawg said:
Yeah that Droid Bionic is pretty awesome. If Verizon 4G hits SLC anytime soon I'll probably have to consider it.

T-Mobile also announced they are doubling the speed of their "4G" network. And during their press conference where they announced it, one of the reporters asked if their current network is 4G and they are doubling the speed, what will they call the new network?

Even though it isn't really 4G it will still be 42 megs though, with expected real world speeds of 25 megs. That will be pretty amazing.

Verizon LTE is getting around 18-20 megs up and down in real world usage so far. But that is with basically nobody on the network and only with data cards on a computer (no phones yet). So those numbers will probably come down when these phones start to hit the streets. Should still be ridiculously fast though.
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Considering that it's a wireless network, those speeds are crazy. That's faster than the current DSL speeds I get with Qwest. All I have seen about Verizon 4G in SLC so far is that it is coming in 2011. I really hope it will be before the Droid Bionic comes out. The Bionic is scheduled for early 2nd quarter.
 
KatieMCR said:
Considering that it's a wireless network, those speeds are crazy. That's faster than the current DSL speeds I get with Qwest. All I have seen about Verizon 4G in SLC so far is that it is coming in 2011. I really hope it will be before the Droid Bionic comes out. The Bionic is scheduled for early 2nd quarter.
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That's ridiculously fast. Much faster than my Evo gets on Sprint's 4G. The problem with Verizon's data is the cap. Well it's not a real cap, just an extra charge ($10 per gig) for going over the limit.

None the less, when SLC gets LTE Verizon will be looking pretty good to me. They still have several more LTE phones they will be announcing this year too. I think they said they will have 10 before the year ends. One of them will be the iPhone, probably 1 or 2 will be Windows, maybe a Blackberry, and the rest Android.
 
SaltyDawg said:
That's ridiculously fast. Much faster than my Evo gets on Sprint's 4G. The problem with Verizon's data is the cap. Well it's not a real cap, just an extra charge ($10 per gig) for going over the limit.

None the less, when SLC gets LTE Verizon will be looking pretty good to me. They still have several more LTE phones they will be announcing this year too. I think they said they will have 10 before the year ends. One of them will be the iPhone, probably 1 or 2 will be Windows, maybe a Blackberry, and the rest Android.
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I'm pretty firmly in the Android camp at this point. I came from the BlackBerry Storm. RIM has done nothing to move the BlackBerry forward with the rest of the smartphone world, and is on the brink of being totally obsolete. It would be hard to get me away from Android at this point. Nobody can beat Google's integration of their own services. I love what I'm seeing in the possibilities of Android's future as well. Google has a lot of great things to add. It's looking like Honeycomb is going to be a killer update for Android.
 
Reading this thread made me wish I knew just what the **** you all were talking about.

Seriously, I'm using the cheapest phone that came free with my Cricket plan, (don't ask) and I still don't know how to use it. I have turned into my father.
 
SaltyDawg said:
Next up; the imminent comedy when all the iPhone fanboys that supposedly didn't care about 4G finally get a 4G iPhone and think it's the greatest thing ever.
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I'd rather wait and have REAL 4G done right which doesn't suck my battery down like crazy than get the "Sprint 4G" (which nobody I with an Evo know even uses) a year earlier.
 
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