This is going to be long and kind of on/off topic so...
Made it to my local verizon today, once again to get hounded when I got there
My main objective was to NOT ask about the Gnex (though I did and of course the guy was pretty much clueless) I checked out the Razr and the Rezound.
The rezound looked like it had a problem, 3% battery and nagging me about the battery, it was plugged in. Did not like the interface, the thickness was not too bad, thinner then I thought, but I just could not get into the phone. Did nothing for me. Wish I could say the same about the Razr
Not going to lie. I dug the Razr
The screen looked okay, the colors where rich, like a plasma display, vs LCD during the early days before LCD tvs took over. Did not see the screen door effect on this one. It did get a little warm, nothing major, up where the LTE antanna is. My DX has gotten hotted but that was while it was plugged in with maps running. I think the heat issue could be because it was drawing in power from the wall and on battery
While I was there I played with the stock camera, not bad, I downloaded HDR camera (free) and took a shot or two and it looked even better. Really usable.
I did a side by side of my DX and the Razr is obviously MUCH thinner, lighter but a bit wider, perhaps by a quarter or 1/3 of an inch. Still not bad. The coating would be nice too, since I like to shoot weather.
When the sales rep (really wanted that sale) got to me, I told him I wanted to make sure the next phone I get is going to be worth the 700 bucks I paid since I was upgrading at full price. He took me to the computer and chatted with me saying I could open up a new line, swap my number for the new number, give me a dummy line and pay roughly 5 bucks more a month... BUT I would lose my unlimited texting and my minutes would go down. AND I would have yet another phone to keep track of it. 300 some bucks instead of 650 + tax. I told him I would have to think about it.
He almost got me. While it would be good to save that type of cash up front, What if I go over. I tried at one time to have a set number of messages, I kept going over. The Voice plan, I don't use that much, but its nice to have those minutes. The extra phone? Just more e-waste, which this person did not understand.
I played with the Razr a bit more and seemed to be drawn to it. Really. Im sure its not a bad phone, it looks pretty good. An updated Droid X. What the bionic should have been.
I have been thinking about it.
NFC? Sure it would be cool but I don't have much of a use for it now. Besides, could there be NFC readers that could be added via USB? Like credit card readers?
Stock android. Well, I got stock honeycomb on my Xoom and while its nice there is not a bunch of bloat, I also have to hacked it (partly due to the radio issues with the 3.2.2 update
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I don't really rom. I put ICX on my droid x and its more of a skin and I am seriously thinking about flashing the nandroid that I took prior to the rom. ICX has some quirks I don't like
Those direct from google updates? Well, those are nice but with ICS being released I am sure I could get a leaked update or even a different rom, should I do that.
Sorry all, Im just talking outloud. Nothing really Gnex related. But when it comes right down to it, spec wise, both handsets are pretty much the same. I could get a phone pretty much right now (well, couple days) or wait for a phone that is pretty much spec'ed the same that could be out a month from now
Guess I got some thinking to do, huh