[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Azeolus:
I had a Rezound and returned it, now have the GNex. I've aired my opinions already on these forums, but I'll add a little.

First the Signal issue, I have found my GNex to be a bit weak, was concerned about it but fortunately today VZW has acknowledged the issue and stated a fix is in the works. Does it suck right now? Yeah I'm a bit upset, but if they can fix this through software I'm willing to wait, at least it will be fixed.

Onto the Rezound.

Negatives.

Noise, the buzzing issue was horrendous in my Rezound, I absolutely hated listening to music on it, only blaring it hid it enough but in my work environment I like to keep the volume level lower. I stopped using my phone altogether for music at that point, it was just that bad.

Thickness, it was just too big. It is as thick as my OG Droid, that thickness with the size battery it has was just not what I was interested in. The extended battery is crazy, makes it the fattest phone I've owned since my Microtac.

Battery life, this was also bad. I got the GNex extended battery on sale at VZW, it really barely added any girth to the phone, I'm currently getting decent battery life, but if there are software fixes coming to make it better, I'll be that much happier.

Positives

The screen, omg the screen. I thought it was absolutely gorgeous, at times I almost feel like the GNex is over saturated. I really liked the screen on the Rezound, very very nice.

Build Quality, the phone felt good, I liked what they did with it. Not to say I feel the GNex feels cheap (I for one think it feels good) the Rezound definitely felt great.

I have yet to experience any hardware issues with my GNex, I'm happy with it. Had the Rezound I got not had some of the hardware issues, I could have been happy with it too. Suffice to say both are nice.

In response to falltime:

Interesting issues you had, I found the exact opposite in some of your observations.

1. I love the UI, it took about 2 days to get totally used to, but the changes now make sense to me, ICS has some great changes. Yes a phone and it's OS are somewhat of a package so you can't discount that when looking at a device, in all I personally have found ICS to be a great step forward.

2. I find the nexus feels a bit better in my hand, definitely is nice to talk on, the Rezound just felt bloated.

3. Not sure what configuration you had, but my GNex battery lasts considerably longer than my Rezound did, that phone chewed through battery.

4. ICS is the way Android is going, apps will have to become compatible, remember the Rezound is slated to receive ICS, so any app problems you had on the GNex will occur on the Rezound if the developers don't update their apps.

5. This I find odd, unless you are on a XP machine or something. I have Win 7 on a moderately powerful machine (about 2 years old now) and MTP is just as fast as USB MS was. I like it better, I don't have to mount and dismount anymore, it just works.

On the NFC front, not sure how VZW made it useless, you can right now load Google Wallet without needing root, it will get even easier, also Beam and bump work just fine. I believe NFC will become more popular over the next two years, and many people stuck in a phone without it until their next upgrade will be frustrated.

My 2c, your mileage may vary.