[Motorola Droid Bionic] KidJoe:
Sorry to repeat that my experience with the Thunderbolt. I'm part of a small group who gets phones for free. We got the TB and Bionic. Experience of others in this small group mirrors mine.

Since the MR2 update, my TB and its radio are much improved over the initial shipping version (my friends with the phone agree). I have not had hardware problems.

Adding the Rezound's 1620mah battery and the 2.11.605.5 and .9 firmware and the battery life on my TB matches and exceeds what I get using the Bionic for some reason (same apps installed on both).

While in my experience Moto has usually and reliably been the "King of reception" and "King of call quality" (yeah, you can call me a moto fan boy from back in the day too), I have not experienced a situation where someone on either end couldn't understand the other while using the TB. I would rank the TB a "very close second." Judging purely by RSSI values, the Bionic wins.

3G/4G transitions have improved on both the TB and Bionic with their respective firmware updates. The Bionic is slightly faster now, and transitions on the TB and Bionic (when successful) do not frustrate me as much as they used to.

However with stock 5.5.886, 5.5.893, and the mistakenly pushed 5.9.901, my Bionic still drops data intermittently and takes an airplane mode toggle or reboot to get it back, even in areas of known good coverage. (5.5.886 and 5.5.893 often need a battery pull to get data back, and even then it can take a considerable amount of time after the reboot). My TB NEVER has done this. While it might drop data briefly during 3g/4G transitions, it always regains it on its own (usually very quickly now), without my ever having to take manual actions. This is the MAIN reason I'm back with the TB, despite my liking other aspects of the Bionic over the TB. Others in the group with me that got the Bionic and TB for free, have also switched back to the TB for that same reason.

The look, feel, and style of the Bionic remind me a lot of my Razr2 V9M (my favorite Moto feature phone, except for battery life where my E815 was king).

The Bionic's screen to me is like looking trough a "screen door." Its not as sharp and clear as the TB's. Some fonts/colors are worse than others (visit http://wstw.com/ for example) When using the Gmail app, difference in color between READ and UNREAD items are difficult to make out on the Bionic depending on screen brightness setting (the brighter the screen, the harder it is to see a difference), where as the TB at any brightness I can always see the difference, and its sharp and clear no matter what font/color.

With the camera improvements in 5.5.893 and 5.5.901, I still notice some issues taking pictures using the stock app or Camera Zoom FX. With the stock camera, the Bionic does focus and take the initial picture faster, but subsequent photo's it has troubles with. Because of picture quality, the Bionic (and every other Moto I have!) has made me want to take a REAL camera with me where ever I go. The TB and INCREDIBLE cameras are such that I never thought about a real camera unless it was something where a longer lens or more than "point and shoot" would suffice.

I guess this sums it up best....

I could live with the other things I dislike about the Bionic (and use it as my every day phone) if the Data connection was consistent and reliable.