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[Verizon Droid Charge] piizzadude:
Though I am not sold on the Bionic being all that it might be, you can have the best of both worlds with it, dual core and 4G.

that being said, the Charge is fantastic, some complain about this and that, and they may have legit complaints, but in a solid 4G area I think you will find it fits the bill rather well. I am in a 4G area and I have no drops of any kind, battery life is really good and overall just very nice.

The picture quality is very nice. I believe it is a 5 MP on the back and 1.3 on the front. The standard card is lacking if you want to record video in HD (why ship it with a crappy card samsung?!?!?) but normal video is good.

I never had a dual core phone, but with the Charge I havent come up against anything that has been laggy or wouldnt run.

I think Netflix is supported now on the charge, but check me on that.

One thing about Samsung and Verizon, the updates take FOREVER. We will get GB more sooner than later, but do not expect ICS until the turn of the year (even though it is out in October). Even that may be optimistic. if you are into rooting and ROMs, I am sure that we have a few good ones coming down the pike once we get a final on GB, include the possibility of CM7.

One thing that should not be overlooked is the 4G. It is HUGE and hellafast. You will wonder how you got along without it

From the phones you mentioned, I would go with the Charge or the X2.
[Verizon Droid Charge] adlzian:
I suggest the bionic as well. I use to have an evo 3d with Sprint before I moved to Verizon with the charge. I thought man if I had this phone with Verizon with 4g id have the best phone possible. That phone with its dual core never showed any signs of lag whatsoever. I switched to Verizon for better coverage and faster 4g. I love my charge but I do wish it was a dual core so the bionic is what id go with. Or u can wait until hopefully the nexus prime comes out....
[Verizon Droid Charge] mrtruckincowboy:
I love my charge.

As far as the bionic goes you know thats going to be a battery hog.

I am very happy on where the devs are going on this device couldn't be happier.
[Verizon Droid Charge] vash1053:
If you can deal with the screen, I recommend the Bionic. The SAMOLED+ is really the only thing the Charge has going for it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] charlie_c:
There was some lag when I first got it, mainly when switching tasks, returning to home screen etc. Rooting and modifying the phone has improved this tremendously. Also, running the latest stock leak of Gingerbread appears to have fixed these issues as well. It's really a pretty quick phone when "optimized". Just as a meaningless benchmark, overclocked to 1300 and 1400 Mhz I was getting Quadrant scores similar (if not a bit faster) than a stock HTC Thunderbolt.

Massively. Wifi and 3G sip power compared to 4G.

If you're at home, I'd use wifi when you can. If not, I doubt you could get through everything you listed while on 4G all on one charge. Streaming video, rendering in the games, plus all the screen on time, plus the 4G...I think you'd be pushing it.

As far as battery, it's really dependent (for me) on 2 things: network signal and method of data. When I'm at work, I have about 1 bar and it's constantly searching. The battery will drain from this within 6-8 hours usually (with wifi on as well). When I'm at home with full service (and on wifi) I can pretty easily get through the weekend one one charge (with moderate use).

Maybe some emulators would perform better, I was playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time and it did have a bit of slowdown with the panning camera. Other than graphically intensive things like that, I dunno...

Like a high resolution camera phone? I dunno. Still not a replacement for a good camera but it works in a pinch.

Yes

Yes

Stock filesystem is RFS which is not "ideal", but you can convert this to the quicker EXT4 filesystem, which helps to reduce lag. The latest Gingerbread leak is RFS though and performance is still much better than Froyo.
[Verizon Droid Charge] diamantericos:
I am very happy i thought the evoke was great but this phone is superior i love everything about it
[Verizon Droid Charge] SuperFan86:
I have a coworker who is up for renewal and we have been discussing what she should do. Verizon is dropping at least 4 new phones within the next month.

The Boinic comes out Sept 8,

HTC Vigor on Oct 6,

LG Revolution 2 on Oct 20, and

Samsung Droid Prime sometime in Oct.

I would considering holding out past the Bionic and picking up the next flagship Samsung phone that is dropping next month. It should be the first Icecream Sandwich Android phone and will likely be dual core/4g.

I say hold out for the greatest so that you won't be stuck with 6 month old technology (Boinic and Charge) as soon as you use your technology update.
[Verizon Droid Charge] quarky42:
I had the Fascinate and have been on the Droid Charge for a while now. I have been extremely happy with it.

I believe the Charge has the best screen you can get. Period.

Battery life: That is going to vary. I think it will hold up, but if it doesn't there is a pretty handy dock with an extra battery available.

I didn't use my phone a lot last night. From 6pm to 6am this morning used 25% of my battery. During that time, my phone performed a complete backup and a couple other automated operations I have scheduled. It also sync's data at that time. I also used my phone a little bit, but by far the most power was used by the backup operation which is processor and storage card intensive.

So, I'm pretty happy with this... 25% in 12 hours means that with light to moderate usage I'd have 50% used in 24 hours.

As for the menus / responsiveness of the phone. I was okay with it. I would have liked it to be a little snappier, but I wasn't annoyed by the time it took to bring up most things. I did switch over to the Go Launcher to replace the default home screen because it was far more customizable and it was a little snappier that way.

Of course, yesterday, I did just flash my phone with the leaked GingerBread build since it has been reported as being pretty stable... so that battery life I mentioned is on GingerBread and not on Froyo. The GingerBread TW Launcher (home screen) is better, but I still switched back to Go Launcher because it gave so many more choices / controls over how it behaves and how it works.

JuiceDefender has not been working very well on the Droid Charge, but it seems like the developers are finally working on fixing it for the Droid Charge, so that should help. You'll get a lot better battery life if you let JuiceDefender turn off your radios / data when you don't need it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] mkarps:
Charge is a great phone. You can start to find cheap deals on it if you upgrade online now too. There will always be something better a few months down the line. So upgrade to something a little older for free or close to it or upgrade to something brand new for $200-300.

The choice is all yours.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jmorton10:
I agree.

I was very happy with my Liberty ROM DroidX & was waiting on the Bionic. Recently however, I fell in love with the awesome screen in the Charge & decided to buy one (it had dropped to under $200 on Amazon).

I turned on the new Charge & on the very first boot I flashed it to Gummycharge 1.9.1 & I absolutely LOVE the thing. I was still planning on replacing it with a dual core 4G phone when they became available, but at this point I like the Charge & that screen so much I don't think I will do that.

I have found that by far the best battery saving tip is to lock it in on 3G except when you are actively using 4G. Where I work, my phone was constantly switching back & forth between the two which absolutely KILLED the battery life.

With setting it to 3G & lowering the screen brightness to 18% except when I'm out in the sun, my battery life is just fine.

One thing I really don't like in the design of the Bionic is the way all Motorola screens are kinda tall & skinny compared to the Charge/iphone etc that have a little wider side to side design which helps when reading web pages etc.

~John
[Verizon Droid Charge] quarky42:
I meant to add that the price of the Charge is $120 on Wirefly with free shipping. It is not worth the $300 that Verizon is asking for it. Of course, I have had very good luck with taking in the best offers and asking a salesperson to do their best to beat those offers. I tell them that I would rather do business with them directly, but I need them to try and beat these deals that I have online. Sometimes you get someone that isn't interested in putting in the effort or you get a stubborn manager who won't budge... but it is worth a try.

Otherwise, just buy it on Wirefly that way and wait the 2-3 days that FedEx takes to deliver it to you. $180 can sure buy a few days of waiting.
[Verizon Droid Charge] foister82:
I had the fascinate and got the free upgrade to the charge. If the charge was designed like the fascinate it would definitely top my list. I love the screen on the charge, but thats it's main pull. If i had went to the store and picked out my 4g phone (at the time only option was charge, thunderbolt and revolution) i would have picked the thunderbolt. My favorite phone ive ever owned was an EVO 4g which i had for about 3 weeks but sprint sucked.

That being said im not dissatisfied with my Charge, but things could be better.
[Verizon Droid Charge] foister82:
Most places (verizon included) will not match wirefly's price. They claim that it's because with wirefly you are essentially signing a second contract, that you will keep your phone for at least 6 months before cancelling. If you break that, they charge you a $300 ETF on top of what verizon charges. They can sell the phone cheaper because they know for sure they will either get $300 from the customer or whatever the commission from verizon is.
[Verizon Droid Charge] quarky42:
All I can attest to is my first hand experience. I bought my Fascinate and my wife's Droid2 for LESS than what Wirefly and Amazon were advertising by taking the printouts into Verizon and telling them that I would rather do business directly with Verizon, but I needed their help in beating these prices. The salesperson talked with his manager and they made it happen. It was through a combination of service credits, instant discounts, and a mail in rebate, but the fact was my final price was far less than what was advertised elsewhere.

Oh, and I bought my Fascinate back in September of last year... the day they launched. I hadn't even heard about the Fascinate before that day. I had decided to buy an Android phone and was researching what was out there and it happened to be available so I priced it out. I didn't realize until later that it was the launch day for that device.

If you get a sales rep that doesn't want your business, kindly take your business elsewhere.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jmorton10:
Not disagreeing, but wondering why you would prefer the t-bolt to the Charge??

I had a t-bolt for a couple weeks (a Verizon rep loaned it to me) and I hated it. I had the choice of either one when I bought my Charge and I prefer the Charge hands down.

I actually liked my old Liberty ROM DroidX better than the t-bolt except for the lack of 4g

~John
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
I love my Charge. It is a great all around phone with an amazing screen. The bionic is out tomorrow, so definately check that out as well.
[Verizon Droid Charge] specter491:
Isn't there an htc phone coming out soon for Verizon? I believe its supposed to have dual core, 4g, a gig of ram, etch. Its going to replace the thunderbolt. But u would be losing the super amoled plus... which I happen to love on the charge.

Oh and htc phones are better suppported by developers. I learned the hard way after leaving the EVO for my charge.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shakingbrave:
Things I love:

Super AMOLED screen. It's only 800x480, but it doesn't matter, still second to none (or the iPhone)

4g. It's super fast and luckily in alot of places I frequent in NJ.

32GB memory. Thoughful :)

Things I hate:

Touchwiz. Die please, thank good for LauncherPro.

Single Core Processor. For a phone this expensive...come on. I'm sure gingerbread will speed things up thought, it's not a major concern. Fast enough I guess.

Battery Life. I guess I'm used to my LG Thrive (ATT Optimus One), but it's pretty weak, no real difference between 3g and 4g use from my observations.

Gets hot. Plug it in to charge (no pun intended) and play angy birds...ouch.

Connectivity. 3g is bad with data drop outs, too bad I'm 3g at home :(. 4g works nearly flawlessly and is impressively fast.

Free RAM. 80MB after a reboot? Come on!!! To be fair, about 150 after I kill all the bloatware, but still, my Optimus One had more than that, like 100mb more!

I just feel for a flagship phone it skimped on some expectations I had...

I'd give the phone a 7/10, with MAJOR points added for the screen.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Andrew C:
It has been my experience (I've had a Thunderbolt, Revolution, and Charge) that having to switch 4g off when not using it is a must if you want to conserve battery with any 4g phone. I will say out of those three phones the Charge is by far the best in battery usage. Lastly, besides the Charges' beautiful screen, you're better off getting a Bionic for the simple fact that it is a better phone. Or you can find a Thunderbolt for cheap and be happy with that also.
[Verizon Droid Charge] bobthesalesclerk:
If you have had the phone for 2 years i would hold off a little bit longer for ICS. Dual core/4g4android ftw

Sent from my flashback 8.0 honeycomb gtablet
[Verizon Droid Charge] kvswim:
The X2 is a disappointment, and the Xperia Play is a joke. At this point, I would DEFINITELY try to hold off for something like the Prime.

Sent from my Droid Charge running GummyCharged 2.0
[Verizon Droid Charge] Ted A:
I'm indifferent as far as with my DC. It served two purposes when I got it: a) it locked me into the 4G's unlimited data plan and b) 4G capability.

Now that I own it, I hate it for the fact that it does not have LED NOTIFICATION. That is simply retarded. The battery sucks a$$ in the big way, too.

Now that Bionic is out, and more models coming out, I can't wait to dump this POS.
[Verizon Droid Charge] JarrettXavier:
I grabbed a Charge for those two reasons as well. I was optimistic about it for about 17 of those days and abhored my experience with the phone until Sept 8th. My breaking point was the phone failing continuously at a time in which it was needed. I simply wanted to use my paid 4G mobile hotspot feature to grab some files and send a few emails while at a customer site. It should've taken 30-45 minutes max - instead it took 1.5 hours because the phone decided to reboot when I started my first download and then refused to supply an IP address to my laptop once it had fully loaded again (another reboot was required). To make matters worse, this was not the first time the phone had decided to throw a tantrum like a two year old - it was just the first tantrum I had experienced when I depended on it. I was through, so after work that day, I drove to a VZW store and purchased a Droid Bionic. I couldn't be happier. For my purposes, ginger-blur is tolerable, even enjoyable - not nearly as bad as the abortion known as Touchwiz.

However, there are a couple of things I miss from the Droid Charge: The deep the blacks of the Super AMOLED+ screen and the powerful bass of Voodoo Sound.

The list of things I will not miss is a bit longer though:

The buggy bluetooth implementation that caused music to skip whenever I streamed music via A2DP - no matter which rom I ran (EE4-EP1Q)

The horrible sound quality while on calls

The phone's inability to quickly lock onto a LTE signal.

Slow charging (I swear the phone's name is Samsung's version of tongue-in-cheek humor)

The lack of a notification light.

The creaky physical buttons below the screen.

The cheap and plasticy feel of the phone in the hand. The remotes of my Samsung televisions use plastics that feel much better - I see no reason why the handset division can't figure this out.

Unless it's a Nexus, I'll never buy another Samsung Android phone again. I truly do hope that Steve Kondik's involvement with Samsung makes me eat my words in the coming years though.
[Verizon Droid Charge] blarrick:
I'm very happy with my Charge but keep in mind if the Samsung Epic 4g Touch(Galaxy S2 for Sprint) was on Verizon I would sell this damn phone in a HEARTBEAT.

It sucks that the Bionic was ever made, if it wasn't then we would have the GS2. They didn't add it to their line of phones because it would have out shown the overly hyped Bionic and the sales on it would have tanked.

This phone serves all my needs except for the GPU. It's good but the GS2 is godly. I can't emulator N64 very well on this phone while the GS2 can run it at 30+ fps all the time(IE always playable).
[Verizon Droid Charge] Mikey450GT:
I would disagree and say that the camera on the Charge is fantastic as is the battery life. I have the Bionic now, since launch day and am currently stuck in a dilemma between keeping my charge or trading up for the Bionic plus $100 bucks. I'm not quite sold on the Bionic honestly. Sure it's fast, but nothing takes advantage of the dual core. Root the Charge and it will run beautifully, great screen and with something of a special UI or adw launcher you get the best of both worlds. I dislike the Bionic on the sense of the camera, and the lower quality of the screen. Sure it's easier to see things with the higher res, but when you pay 300 bucks for this kind of phone you shouldn't have to settle with a screen that is pixelated and slightly distorted. It's been bothering me a bit more lately. No pun intended, but my Charge is quick to charge up and runs awesome, it shows my battery life in each percent, where the Bionic is only showing each 10% and although the battery life is pretty good for a dual core (minimal usage yet) it only shows each 10% increment until you get to 15%. I do love having the LED notification. But it is negated by the size of it. The Charge is somewhat lighter and I have no complaints about the construction of it since I have a case around it. Also I want to note the Charge is only 199 at Best Buy and the Bionic just dropped to $249 at my local Best Buy store. That's all I can think of at the moment, but feel free to ask any more questions you might have
[Verizon Droid Charge] Mikey450GT:
Haha, I hear you all too well on that one!
[Verizon Droid Charge] Ted A:
HAH!

I just resolved the issue of missing LED notification on my Droid Charge with NOLED app by madmack.

My DC now shows the notifications, including Google Voice notification, as icons on black (sleep mode) screen. I had to choose a different "dismiss" button. The default dismiss button is the Home key and I don't want to accidentally press it.

It's still unknown how much battery power the app uses.
[Verizon Droid Charge] 91point6:
Overall. Not really happy. The screen is nice but that is about it. The main issue I have with this phone is the crappy voice reception indoors where i work. This in turn eats the battery alive. I have tried just about every ROM/Modem/Radio combination. Task killers. No tasks killers. Battery calibration, turning data off. In short every suggestion I could find on the Charge forums and it all boils down to the voice radio not being very good. I started out this morning with 100% charge. After slightly less than 2 hours, I am down to 78% already. If I don't keep it on the charger all day, it won't last through the day. My Droid X did not have this problem.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Ted A:
DROIDX makes DC look like a cheap taiwan plastic toy.

As far as I know, you can improve DC voice quality. Search "vocoder" here.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Rominucka:
Also you can simply go into your call settings on the Charge and enable the Noise Reduction feature. It's a noticeable difference for people on the other end

Sent from my Samsung Droid Charge 4G-LTE
[Verizon Droid Charge] 91point6:
To clarify, my issue is not one of call quality. It is the constant fluctuation of voice signal when the phone is idle that is causing extreme battery drain.
[Verizon Droid Charge] sneakysolidbake:
Haha, I'll have to disagree with you on the gpu sentiment. I used to have a fascinate which has the same gpu. After aosp was functional, n64 emu was damn near flawless. Trust me, the gpu on this device isn't bottlenecking anything. If anything, its the software and MAYBE the ram but I don't think so.
[Verizon Droid Charge] droid-ed:
Love my DC, would trade it for Prime only

I have had my DC since it had just come out in May. Verizon was about to roll out 4G in my area and DC and TB were the only two 4G options at the time. My son got a TB and I got myself a slick DC. I took DC over TB for two reasons - better screen and better battery life both of which have proved to be true to expectations.

The following is my summary of experience so far:

1. By far the best screen, nothing comes even close.

2. Fairly good battery life. With Humble 151/EE4/Froyo, I consistently get over 16 hours. My son's TB barely gets 8-10 hours. Both of us are rooted with custom roms. We are average users (like the original poster of this thread.) I do a lot more email (have 10+ email accounts constantly pushing), but less texting 10-20/day. Some movies on Netflix, some music play during workout, and read news, weather, websurfing, etc.

3. Solid 4G. Granted a lot of this experience has to do with how strong your signal is. Recently, I visited a place where I was deep inside a building and my signal strength dropped to 1X. It consumed like 25% of battery in one hour and my phone hot like a cake. If you're in a weak signal area, this phone is not for you.

4. With 32GB card included (probably std on other phones now), I don't need more storage for anything.

5. Bluetooth, GPS and Camera in my DC are definitely better than TB.

6. I found that the battery life can be affected significantly by what you're running on your phone intentionally or unintentionally. I had Launcher Pro initially. I paid for the app and I liked it. But with one of the Humble upgrades it started sucking up battery like anything. Once I switched to ADW launcher, (it took a little bit getting used to but I like it now), I lose 2-4% battery during lighter use times.

7. No I am not a fan of this phone's plastic feel. But it doesn't bother me since it's enclosed in a case (bought with my phone) which I absolutely recommend unless you have a spare dry hand eager to hold your phone all the time.

8. I was a long time Blackberry user. So I was used to the LED notification. I tried the NOLED app with this phone. It was okay but it does impact the battery life. I lost it during a ROM upgrade and never bothered to put it back. I don't miss that indicator now because my phone is never too far away from me.

9. I have used both paid and free wifi tethering. Both work the same - of course the free one doesn't cost you anything. I have used it with 5 computers all getting solid 10GB plus download speeds. It's nice.

Hope you find it useful. Cheers!
[Verizon Droid Charge] WVFAN1:
Yeah i would wait a little longer for maybe the htc vigor even.