Please let us know how you like the new phone!
Thanks for the nice welcome everyone.
Ok, so picked up the Rezound this morning. As always, the crack staff in the VZW store fumbled the transaction numerous times, and only after the third 19 year old "manager" came over and made a call into "corporate" were they able to return my Nexus and activate my Rezound properly. Gah. There's an hour I'll never get back.
Random thoughts a half day in:
While I do think HTC does the best job skinning Android, Sense does seem pretty over the top coming right off ICS. Still, I was able to spend an hour or so today moving things around and generally customizing it to my liking. It still seems needlessly heavy, but I knew what I was getting into with Sense. To it's credit, the phone seems to care less, it's easily as fast as the Nexus from what I've seen thus far.
My buttons, I'm glad to say, are not pink.
I do miss the design of the Nexus...it's a really nice looking phone. The Rezound is handsome in a familial way, but it's not a must-have, lust-inducing design unfortunately. The understated look does have it's appeal though, and the more I handle it, the more it reminds me of my original Incredible, albeit thicker.
4G reception is still sketchy in my house, especially in our finished basement. However, out and about this evening, I was able to make a call whenever I tried. The Rezounds' signal strength is better everywhere I checked
and possibly most importantly, it manages the 4G to 3G hand off quickly and painlessly. Enormous improvement over the Nexus there and that's precisely what I was looking for.
The camera puts the unit on the Nexus to shame. I took a handful of snapshots in similar conditions as those I took with the Nexus and the Rezound's images look great. I am more than pleased with the performance of the camera and the shutter seems to be just as quick as the Nexus' zero-lag deal.
The screen is fantastic but to my eye it's about the same as the screen on the Nexus, with the distinction that the Nexus screen only really looks impressive when the brightness is cranked. The first 3/4 of the brightness adjustment on the Nexus makes the screen look less than stellar; it's only at the last 1/4 of brightness that it looks special. The Rezound's screen looks great at most settings I tried.
Battery life has been on par with my expectations thus far.
The Beats ear buds do sound pretty nice, but I'll never use them day to day.
HTC's native music player sucks....I need to do something about that even if it means losing the Beats enhancement.
Oh, thanks to the link in this thread, I downloaded the free version of the ICS keyboard, but even though it's selected and checked in settings, it looks like I'm still getting the stock keyboard. Anyone know how to activate the ICS keyboard? Is there a step I'm missing or do I need to get the 1.99 donation version for it to look like the ICS keyboard?
Not very many accessories available for the Rezound yet, huh? Immediately sought out a Steinheil screen protector...no go. Picked up a 3 pack of the crappy Verizon screen protectors just to have something on the screen for now, but it's far from ideal. Ordered a couple of cases to try out, and sadly, Proclip isn't showing a device holder for the Rezound. That's too bad as I have the vehicle mount already and their mounts are the best I've ever used. Might have to fab something up.
So far, I like the Rezound. I don't love it yet, but it seems like the sleeper of Verizon's 4G line up right now. I do regret that the Nexus turned out to be such a problem, and there's no way I could ever own a Razr.
Right now, I'm pretty happy with my decision to let the Nexus go and get the Rezound. I would however, be very tempted to go back if the Nexus' issues were well and truly sorted, but I can't wait around for that.
If anyone else is having issues with their Nexus and is considering the Rezound, I'd definitely recommend it, it's a very capable device.
And then we fish it out of the memory card (shows up in the gallery too).
