The Rezound's a thick piggy of a phone. Notice how the static promo shots don't show it from the side? Thick enough to have a slider keyboard yet it doesn't. What's up with that? And I want ICS because that's the future of Android. But I don't want some third party ROM that's going to give Verizon a way to ignore any problems I may have with my service (and they obviously have a lot of 4G issues). I'm in the market for a phone that I'll be using for the next two years. I'd rather have it be on the leading edge of next year's OS than the trailing end of last year's OS and I want to be able to vent at Verizon with full, righteous fury if I have any problems. 
As far as build quality goes, I'll take my chances. I've had cell phones since the mid 90s and only one of them died before I was done using it. Not dropping them on concrete or in the toilet seems to be the key. Unless it's made of paper mache, it should last for 2-3 years without any special effort.
So I'll wait a little longer for the phone I want. It can't be that much longer. The phones have already been manufactured and shipped to the stores. Every day they sit in the stores is a lot of money lost.
This is a very good post and makes a lot of sense with the exception of one thing:
HTC has officially stated that the Rezound will be upgraded to ICS in Q1-2012. Honestly I would rather have Gingerbread for a while longer while the Nexus early adopters work out the ICS kinks.
jtown wrote:The Rezound's a thick piggy of a phone. Notice how the static promo shots don't show it from the side? Thick enough to have a slider keyboard yet it doesn't. What's up with that? And I want ICS because that's the future of Android. But I don't want some third party ROM that's going to give Verizon a way to ignore any problems I may have with my service (and they obviously have a lot of 4G issues). I'm in the market for a phone that I'll be using for the next two years. I'd rather have it be on the leading edge of next year's OS than the trailing end of last year's OS and I want to be able to vent at Verizon with full, righteous fury if I have any problems.
As far as build quality goes, I'll take my chances. I've had cell phones since the mid 90s and only one of them died before I was done using it. Not dropping them on concrete or in the toilet seems to be the key. Unless it's made of paper mache, it should last for 2-3 years without any special effort.
So I'll wait a little longer for the phone I want. It can't be that much longer. The phones have already been manufactured and shipped to the stores. Every day they sit in the stores is a lot of money lost.
kidwolf908 wrote:This is a very good post and makes a lot of sense with the exception of one thing:
HTC has officially stated that the Rezound will be upgraded to ICS in Q1-2012. Honestly I would rather have Gingerbread for a while longer while the Nexus early adopters work out the ICS kinks.
Verizon's update won't be Q1. I'd expect Q2 at the earliest. That's assuming HTC doesn't push the date back. Tho there is something to be said for not being the first one to try something. If the Rezound had a slider keyboard, they would probably win me over but, without it, I may as well get the thinner, lighter phone with a bigger screen and dive in head first. If the Nexus doesn't come out by the end of the year, I'll probably get a RAZR and hope it gets ICS by Q2. Again, thin and light being the key selling points for me. And the RAZR has better docking options than the Rezound so, while it has fewer pixels in-hand, it can be connected to a large external display.
Darnit. Now I'm thinking I should go back to the RAZR which I was going to buy before I started reading up on the Nexus.
jtown wrote:
kidwolf908 wrote:This is a very good post and makes a lot of sense with the exception of one thing:
HTC has officially stated that the Rezound will be upgraded to ICS in Q1-2012. Honestly I would rather have Gingerbread for a while longer while the Nexus early adopters work out the ICS kinks.
Verizon's update won't be Q1.
Darnit. Now I'm thinking I should go back to the RAZR which I was going to buy before I started reading up on the Nexus.
I'm not sure what you mean here by "docking options."
The Rezound has an MHL port that can be converted to full size HDMI with a $10 converter cable.
Honestly the RAZR isn't even in this race. That ship sailed with the qHD screen and non-removable battery.
