It's threads like this that make me glad I chose the Rezound. At the time (Nov 2011), it was the Nexus, Razr and Rezound as the top three phones. Shoulda seen the puzzled look on the salesman's face when I said I decided on the Rezound. He was pushing the Razr, his personal favorite. The Nexus turned out to have a multitude of problems, the Razr was quickly replaced by the Maxx, and the Rezound was the underrated, best of the bunch. When VZW offered the Rezound for $50, I thought surely that was the end of the line for the phone, but it's back up to $199. Now the better half is eligible for an upgrade July 14, and I'm hoping it will be before the shared data plans are introduced, or a subsidized upgrade is out of the question. We would lose our u/l data w/ discount plan. I still think the best choice for the next upgrade will be the Rezound, to keep things simple, rather than learn a new OS for, say, the GS3.