[HTC Rezound] snake2332:
After a couple weeks with the Rezound, I figured I would spew my opinion here:

Issues:

1) Random reboots - Not too often, especially lately, but very annoying when they happen and the phone takes about 2 minutes to reboot.

2) Slow performance - Some games & apps perform horribly, way slower than my OG Droid. Examples: Wordsmith, Bakery Story, OI Shopping List. I play Wordsmith a ton and it's noticeably slower than my Droid. I installed Bakery Story for my wife to see and it gets like 1 frame per second with a blank bakery. What the hell? I use OI Shopping List a ton and the scrolling is not as fluid as my Droid. Lots of times when there is scrolling in any app, the phone just feels slow to respond and slow frame rates.

3) Slow touch-screen response times - I would like to see some official tests on this, but just judging by my own experience, it feels like 200ms or more to me. Definitely slow enough to be annoying, especially in Wordsmith when I drag tiles around and stuff. Maybe the apps aren't handling the high pixel density very well, or the high resolution. Whatever the case, it doesn't bode well for me. It reminds me of when I used the MX1000 Logitech bluetooth mouse after using my MX Revolution - there is latency and it's extremely annoying once it gets above a certain point (100ms?)

4) Heat - The design just isn't very good when it comes to the device dissipating heat. This doesn't bother me much, but makes me realize there will be little to no overclocking of this beast.

5) Noise in headphone jack - At first, my headphone jack just had a dull hum, not uncommon with cheap mobile devices, but this one isn't cheap and they are trying to bill this as the best mobile audio experience. Now, I have the higher-pitched noise that other users are complaining about. Not cool.

6) Pink buttons - *Sigh* they couldn't have just used some red LEDs for this? They are relying on the transparent red film which apparently turns pink very quickly and will forever remain pink.

Personal issues that I have with the phone that I wouldn't consider true "issues":

7) Bloatware - I hate you so much sometimes Verizon. True, your customers are mostly stupid (see 99% of device reviews on verizonwireless.com), but do you really have to try and trick us into using your crappy apps to get money out of us? Isn't it enough that I pay you over $1000/yr for your service? Can't you at least let us uninstall the bloatware apps? Can't you at least let me stop the v-cast sync? I don't even know how to sign into my v-cast account because I've avoided v-cast like the plague, yet I get errors every night when v-cast tries to sync but there isn't enough space to sync. I guess v-cast doesn't give you 40gb of space like it would need to sync all my videos and music, haha.

8) No s-off and no permanent root - I'm too used to my OG Droid with custom roms. Going to the Rezound without even a decent root is like stepping into my own little hell. At least I can use my own launcher and avoid HTC Sense. I could possibly hold out for a permanent root & s-off, but what if it never happens?

9) Battery - Battery life is decent, about what I'd expect for the size of the battery and without being able to strip-down the OS & bloatware. However, the charging is soooo slow. The charger is 1 amp, yet it takes 3+ hours to fully charge the phone. I charged the extended battery for 5 hours and it wasn't charged fully yet. I know a full charge is not really needed, and it's just slow at charging once it nears a full charge. Yesterday I took the phone off the dock (which, by the way, doesn't hold the phone very sturdily unless you have the ridiculously giant extended battery, which I did for about a day then I ebay'd it) and it had 100% charge. I talked to someone for 10 minutes with the phone, checked a text message, and put it back in my pocket. About half hour later, threw it back on the dock. It was at 81% and took about 45 min to get back up to 98%. Sometimes it takes an hour to get from 98% to 100%, but I don't care about that really, because it's basically fully charged at 98%.

10) Design - The phone is pretty thick compared to others out there (cough* cough* Galaxy S2/Nexus), yet they only put a 1650mAh battery in it and had to semi-stack components, resulting in excess heat and fairly weak battery life. Meanwhile, the Verizon version of the Galaxy Nexus holds its extended 2200mAh battery with the original cover and still is under 10mm thick while the Rezound is what, 14 or 15mm?

11) Slow SD performance - This probably doesn't matter much, but the RAZR writes to the SD card at 20+mb/sec while my Rezound is only getting 3.7mb/sec. Granted, I have a 32gb class 6 card and the 16gb card it comes with might be faster.

12) Speaker - The mono speaker clips pretty harshly at full volume, especially when using speakerphone. One or two ticks down from full volume and it's okay, but I hate audio clipping. Plus, it's not that loud when it's not at full volume. I can barely use speakerphone in my car-dock and hear the other party when I'm sitting there with the motor idling. My OG Droid is significantly better and louder at reproducing audio.

13) Back cover not very secure - The first Rezound I got was damaged by the Verizon rep that was setting up the SIM card. One corner of the cover wouldn't lock into place. Looking closely, you can see there are super-tiny little tabs that are supposed to hold the cover in place. It didn't look damaged, but sure enough it was. I took the phone back to Verizon, hoping the cover was what was damaged so I wouldn't have to sit thru them activating a brand new handset. Unfortunately, it was damaged on the phone-side, not the cover, so I had to wait for verizon drone to activate the phone and whatnot . It seemed like he wasn't going to give me a replacement either, like it was such a minor issue, but I was prepared to ***** and complain until he did. So, I'm on Rezound #2 and still feel the back cover move a little from time to time, which just makes it feel cheap. Not a huge deal, but it's just a poor design. Also, pushing straight down on the back cover reveals some movement and squeak, adding to the cheap feel. I remember avoiding things that said "Made in Taiwan" as a kid, but HTC makes solid phones I thought. Meh...

14) SD card doesn't auto-mount sometimes after connected to then disconnected from PC - Not sure why. I don't notice it until I go to access some media and it tells me the sdcard isn't mounted. Sure enough, I go to settings and it's not mounted. Happens maybe 1/3rd of the time I interface it with my PC.

15) Bluetooth doesn't turn on sometimes - Only happened a couple of times. Not sure what causes it, maybe the bug that Torque says Pandora causes. Rebooting the phone fixes it. Probably not a fault of the phone, but rather software. I don't know for sure though.

I'm afraid that the Rezound is getting traded in for the Nexus come Thursday, if the Nexus actually becomes available then. Of course the Verizon reps didn't even know that there is an extended return window for my purchase. They told me I only had 2 weeks and I told them that I read an official Verizon document saying it was extended until some time in January. They doubted me. But sure enough on the receipt it says "Purchases (excluding tablets) made between November 15 and December 28, 2011 may be returned or exchanged through January 15, 2012, subject to a $35 restock fee for wireless devices..."

That's all I can think of for now. Sorry if I missed the point of this thread or whatever.