[HTC Droid DNA] BarryH_GEG:
I chose the Teg3 One X over the SGS3 because it had a better display, I liked the design better, and I preferred Sense to TW mostly because of the aesthetic and all the apps are better integrated. That said, it had a weak non-replaceable battery, the launch s/w was horrible, and while mine was fine the forum was riddled with Wi-Fi, QC, and build quality issues. I would have been perfectly happy with a SGS3 and yes, it has its share of issues too.

My last Samsung phone was a i9100 which I was happy with and kept almost a year. I've had the N2 for a week and here are my impressions so far coming from a One X.

TW isn't as refined as Sense but it offers a ton more features to customize how you want the device to behave. Some are gimmicky but their cool and nice to have. With themes and scenes HTC lets you customize the look of the phone but Samsung let's you change the way it actually works. The latter's more valuable.

It may have been fixed in the DNA but you can't BT voice dial in earlier HTC phones. I kluged it with Vlingo but it's a stupid omission on HTC's part and for whatever the reason they intentionally omitted the Android Voice Dialer in their phones. No issue with the N2. And it's nice to be able to see album/artist/track again when using A2DP. Would it be so hard for HTC to support AVRCP 1.3?

Call quality is much better on the N2 than the Teg3 One X. People ask me if I got a new phone because there's so much difference. It may not apply to the DNA because it's using different radios.

The N2 is an easy phone to own; everything just works. It's fast, fluid, and consistent. It's incredibly solid feeling and feels good in the hand. Everyone freaks out about Samsung's plastics but they've never bothered me or made feel that the device wasn't durable and well designed. I think HTC makes beautiful phones but Samsung still has removable storage and batteries so it's a trade-off. Someday HTC will figure out how to do both.

The battery's huge and removable and with a 64GB class-10 SD card I have 70GB of storage available. I've already used about 36GB of it. To move large files to it all I have to do is plug the SD card in to a USB 3.0 reader and I can move 20GB of files in 1/4 of the time it would take via MTP.

The display on the N2 is great. I wouldn't call it better or worse than the LCD2 panel on the One X; it's just different. Color accuracy was better on the One X but the blacks are obviously better on the N2. The One X was brighter but because of the AMOLED contrast it's really not that noticeable. It may have a lower PPI but because the display's so large you hold it further away and would never notice. Speaking of which, Samsung wasted a lot of space by using a 4x4 grid on the N2. It's great for seeing it a mile away but the additional screen real estate is only useful in apps. Obviously with a 5.5" 16x9 display pics, videos, games, and web browsing are terrific.

I love the inking capabilities but that's a personal preference thing and been beaten to death already.

About the size. It's a big, no, make that huge, phone. But once you get used to it it's certainly livable. I have a PDAir holster for it and wear it on my belt like I did the One X. It's size makes it more noticeable and you can feel it in your pocket more but (IMHO) the better usability the larger display provides and the inking make it a better than acceptable trade-off. Functionally, there's nothing but upside in a larger phone. It's easier to type on, you can see more on the display, and you can read off it when it's sitting on a desk 24" away. The downsides are portability and one-handed use. So it's "function" over "form." Some people will think the additional bulk is worth the trade-off; others won't.

Samsung has some really cool accessories. Because their devices sell so well third parties do also. The Flip Case is nice when traveling. The OEM Protective Cover looks great and is easy to get off and on without f-ing up the screen protector. I have a Bondit mount in my car and already got the N2 adapter. There's an OEM car mount out and a bunch of great charging docks. Eventually there's supposed to be a wireless charger but the same was said for the SGS3 and it's been six months with no sign of it.

So I'm as happy with the N2 as I was with the One X but for different reasons. To me, neither HTC or Samsung makes a phone so spectacularly different that would cause me to exclusively buy one over the other. My next phone could be either depending on what's interesting at the time. But I'll say this. HTC really needs to figure out a way to make their phones more competitive by either providing 32GB of fixed storage with a 64GB option and either putting bigger batteries in their phones or making them removable. Those two things on the N2 will be hard to give up in my next phone.