[HTC Droid DNA] Hiya Buddy:
I keep hearing more and more about the Droid DNA on reviews and such. I have two main concerns regarding this phone and hope that Droid DNA owners would be able to answer some questions.

First and foremost is battery life, which can be affected by signal strength (my second question). I know, I know, think about the 1080p screen and the 4G LTE radios, and how you use the phone every day. Well to be specific I text all day, make an occasional phone call that doesn't last longer than 10 minutes, have constant sync with gmail, facebook, and twitter (1 hour intervals for twitter and facebook). Usually on a day when I don't text like crazy my Droid RAZR is around 60% battery right before bed time. It's usually unplugged from the charger at 12pm and plugged in around 4 am. On days with heavy texting I reach for the charger around 5pm with a 30-40% charge. I keep the display around 50% brightness (the AMOLED panel is probably not as bright as the slcd3 in the DNA).

Second is signal and is the real kicker for me. I've tried to figure out just what the hell is wrong with my RAZR after Verizon's update to ICS because I used to have much better reception when my phone was running Gingerbread. So as you can tell from my concern with signal, it is what eats the battery the most in my workplace (I'm there all day so its the place where I use my phone the most). The problem with my RAZR (and the three others on my family plan) is the constant switching between 3G and 4G all day. Each one does it at least 10 times a day (happened 5 times while on the phone with customer support trying to get the problem fixed). A little more about my workplace, it's a family owned convenience store inside of an old building with apartments so there is bound to be some signal trouble. The best indoor reception came from T-Mobile, the worst from AT&T (not a single bar ha!), and Sprint and Verizon are so-so. It's just an old building because I live literally right next to Boston and there shouldn't be any sort of signal trouble. How does the DNA perform with indoor reception? Can it hold a 4G signal or will it want to switch back to 3G constantly? I think the RAZR itself is flawed somehow because my phone (and the three others) still drop 4G at my house. I live in an attic room where I get 4-5 bars of 4G but it still switches back to 3G (three replacement phones and sim cards and still the same thing, probably blaming ICS for this issue). It is evident that all that switching impacts battery life because my phone drops 10% within only one hour in my workplace with it just sitting in my pocket. I also own an iPad with 4G on Verizon and the thing will never switch to 3G even in the basement at my workplace so it can't be Verizon.

I would be thankful if anybody could answer my questions. I apologize for my slight rant with signal and don't want to veer off topic since this is a Droid DNA forum. I have owned the evo 3D and there are a lot of great developers for HTC here, my evo 3D performed best when it was running a custom rom instead of the bootlooping Sprint Stock ROM that gave me 1x speeds.

P.S. I am thinking of picking one up at bestbuy since they don't have any restocking fees but $750 ain't cheap.