Well, I bought my TBolt back in April, and always had problems with data drops, random reboots and shut downs throughout all my original and 2 replacement Thunderbolts. I got a Rezound for $50 on upgrade back in November and have been using it ever since. To be honest, I loved the Thunderbolt, but I don't miss the data drops, random reboots, and shut downs of my Thunderbolt. The Rezound isn't perfect(got 2 retail box replacements for it as well, bad luck with phones, i guess), still has some data drops, but only for maybe 20 seconds then data comes back, and not as frequently. On my Tbolt, data would sometimes get "stuck", it would say 4G, but no data for minutes until i hit the "restart connections" app. even that would be marginally acceptable, but shut downs are plain not acceptable for me since i use my phone as an alarm clock and reminder. I do live in an area of weak signal though.
I pulled the sim from my Rezound put it back into my Tbolt and called csr to complain. I never once asked for a different phone, but I kept saying how my Rezound doesn't have the data drop, reboot, and shut down problems of my Tbolt. The CSR offered me other devices, either the Charge or Rezound. Would not let me get a Razr (I kinda wanted a Razr for the laptop dock), but i do hate the non-replaceable battery. I did find it funny that the csr said that the Razr was not in the same class as the Rezound?!?!?!? At first, I was thinking that they didn't want to offer a "Droid", but the Charge is a "Droid".
I will certainly miss you guys, I learned a lot from everyone here, and I will still drop in from time to time. The Thunderbolt was my first smartphone and was very enjoyable, save the issues above.
p.s. my wife isn't happy since i keep getting new phones. just got a high end wp7 (Samsung Focus S) for free without contract by trading in my crappy pixi). oh well, hope she doesn't get too mad, but this phone didn't cost anything either.
btw, for those that got a switched phone, did you get a back cover and battery? the csr i talked to said i'd have to buy it myself. that's okay since i have 2 tb ext batt, 1 rez std bat, and 1 rez ext bat, so i have enough batteries to share.
I pulled the sim from my Rezound put it back into my Tbolt and called csr to complain. I never once asked for a different phone, but I kept saying how my Rezound doesn't have the data drop, reboot, and shut down problems of my Tbolt. The CSR offered me other devices, either the Charge or Rezound. Would not let me get a Razr (I kinda wanted a Razr for the laptop dock), but i do hate the non-replaceable battery. I did find it funny that the csr said that the Razr was not in the same class as the Rezound?!?!?!? At first, I was thinking that they didn't want to offer a "Droid", but the Charge is a "Droid".
I will certainly miss you guys, I learned a lot from everyone here, and I will still drop in from time to time. The Thunderbolt was my first smartphone and was very enjoyable, save the issues above.
p.s. my wife isn't happy since i keep getting new phones. just got a high end wp7 (Samsung Focus S) for free without contract by trading in my crappy pixi). oh well, hope she doesn't get too mad, but this phone didn't cost anything either.
btw, for those that got a switched phone, did you get a back cover and battery? the csr i talked to said i'd have to buy it myself. that's okay since i have 2 tb ext batt, 1 rez std bat, and 1 rez ext bat, so i have enough batteries to share.