I've had all three phones. The Bionic, I wouldn't take that phone back if they gave it to me. All kinds of network issues. My girlfriend has the Rezound, it's a GREAT phone, she does have some network issues sometimes, not near as bad as the bionic or RAZR. my son uses a RAZR in a pure 3g area ( IMO the Bionic and RAZR aren't much different under the hood) I have him set to CDMA only and he has no network issues. On my GF's Rezound, I set her to CDMA only after I got tired of hearing her complain and it seems to work fine. I have the Nexus and have no problems at all.
If I were you I'd consider the Rezound if you want to save some money, i believe it's $50 right now from Verizon or Amazon. If you don't mind spending the money get the Nexus, it's an awesome phone with a great development community behind it. Like I said my Girlfriend has the Rezound, she is pretty tech savvy, and she is very jealous of my Nexus.
Another note on the Rezound, I put her on CleanRom and she doesnt have the handoff issues anymore. Also it's supposed to be getting the 4.0.3 update at the end of this week which should fix most of the handoff issues. Not that I'm trying to talk you into the Rezound, IMO the Nexus is much better. I've had less complaints with Samsung phones than any others.
Thanks JavaBeans,
Btw, I am pretty good with Java/Netbeans (assuming that's what your nickname came from).
This thread got me interested in the Rezound rather than the Galaxy Nexus. After all, how reliably well a phone functions is the most important aspect. That's why I've been using Verizon for years. The one week $50 deal helped make the final decision.
The Rezound seems to work well. I've unlocked the bootloader, changed the recovery to be clockworkmod, made anandroid backup, tried RA recovery (seems better than clockworks) - rooted it, made another nandroid backup. Using Titanium Backup I froze the updater to prevent OTA updates. Now I am waiting for the Son/off exploit to be released.
In the Washington DC subway there is no 4G. 3G works well at most underground stations, but is very spotty while in the tunnels between stations, so 3G comes and goes along with basic phone service in the tunnels. At work I have a very strong 4G signal which works well.
I have written the washdcsubway app to display many subway stations' rail prediction data at once. I think it is the only app that allows scrolling through many stations' information at once.
I can not find any setting for eHRDP on/off.
How can I write an APP to read and change eHRDP along with 4G/cdma?
Howard
P.S. The ICS update was leaked, but never released. Some say the new radio firmware uses too much battery. I read it isn't simple to back out the ICS update, so I am waiting at this point. I do miss the Gummy ROM (on Droid-X), but I find HTC's sense is very nice. HTC customized alot in GB. Even typing with the onscreen keyboard is easier with the HTC sense.
