[Verizon Motorola Droid Turbo General] ChazzMatt:
Same here. My wife and I both use Google Voice numbers and Hangouts accomplishes the purpose. We don't want out underlying carrier numbers showing when we text -- it confuses people when we use another texting app, "WHO is this?" or "How many phone numbers do you have?". I have ONE phone number -- my Google Voice phone number. That's all you need to know.

When we went to Brazil a year ago we were still able to use our phones and Google Voice numbers quite well, even in another hemisphere and not using our AT&T phone numbers, but another carrier.

Last spring, I bought a 3rd Quark as a backup (still new in the box) just for this scenario. December will be 2 years when I bought the first two. I've never held onto a phone that long. The gen 3 Galaxy Nexus was 1.5 years. The gen5 LG Nexus 5 was 1 year. I was SO ready for the 5.2" Moto Nexus 6 we saw leaks for... But Google went with the OTHER one, the 5.95" -- and ONLY the other one. :rolleyes:

Then, Motorola released the Droid Turbo XT1254 for Verizon about the same time -- and it was quite obvious it was the 5.2" Nexus variant Google had not chosen. :rolleyes: If not the exact phone, then at least some extremely close shared development path.

(This is not new. The 2012 4.7" 720p gen4 LG Nexus 4 and the 4.7" 720p LG Optimus One were almost exact clones of each other, while the 2013 4.95" 1080p LG Nexus 5 and the 5.2" 1080p LG G2 shared the same development cycle and many hardware components. For 2013, LG specifically did not want the Nexus 5 to be clone again, as the Nexus 4 hurt their sales of their excellent flagship phone. Same phone for half the cost? But there was a 5.2" Shamu being tested as late as mid-August 2014. Pretty sure it would have had rear camera OIS, but whether it would have had stereo speakers like the 6" version they released we'll never know. STUPID GOOGLE!)

Then right after that the other Quarks were released, specifically the XT1225 Moto Maxx which has all the AT&T LTE bands. Due to that (especially the LTE bands 5 & 17), I strongly feel AT&T was supposed to sell this phone, but Verizon pressed for an "exclusive". It never became a true exclusive, as at least a dozen regional U.S. CMDA/LTE carriers sold the XT1250, which is an FCC ID clone of the XT1254 -- but those carriers are sycophants of Verizon (regional roaming partners), not competition like AT&T.

So, I imported two from Mexico and Puerto Rico. Then, earlier this year a 3rd one from Puerto Rico

I'm sticking with the Quark for several more months, possibly another year. Depends on what gets released in 2017 from LG, Samsung, maybe even ZTE (if they improve even more on the Axon 7). I'm giving up hope on Google.

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If the ZTE Axon 7 (oh my, those hardware specs leave the Pixel XL weeping and for only $400!) had Qi wireless and CM ROM development for that phone was in a more finished state (they are THAT close), I'd be jumping there and buying two of them. (And people are using them on Verizon, from what I read. There's a whole thread on how to do it.)

Something like the ZTE Axon 7 + Qi wireless and custom ROMs would be the perfect successor to Quark.