I was at the Verizon store earlier today (for no particular reason) and checked out the working display models of the Rezound, Galaxy Nexus, and RAZR. I compared each one side by side to my Thunderbolt and came away with a renewed appreciation for my one year, one week old Thunderbolt!
While each of those phones is nice, none felt like enough of an improvement to consider them as a replacement. Looking past the fact none of them have a kickstand, I felt the following:
Rezound - taller and not quite as wide as the Thunderbolt but slightly thicker (both with standard batteries in them). The build quality feels a bit lacking as there are no accents such as the chrome in the earpiece, power button or volume rocker. The buttons and volume rocker seem small and feel kind cheap. The screen looks great though and I did like some of the changes in the newer version of Sense such as the lock screen and transparent effects of the bottom dock, notification bar and some menus. Overall, it’s pretty nice, but not worth giving up a native kickstand.
RAZR – although thin and same size screen is much larger overall, especially in width which is uncomfortable to hold even in my large hands. The screen is ok, but seemed to have a bit of a green tint to it. The power button on the side is awkward and the volume rocker is too small and on the same side making it too easy to accidently press. I also find it strange that Motorola put the home button second from left and instead put the menu button first which I kept hitting thinking it was home. But what really killed it for me is the non-removable battery and the UI (Blur or whatever it’s called) which doesn’t look very polished nor feel very intuitive. Between that and the uncomfortable width, I put it down pretty quick.
Galaxy Nexus – larger overall, bigger screen with a slight curve, yet very light, but felt cheap in hand with slippery plastic body. Screen looks almost as good as Rezound. The power button on the side is awkward and the volume rocker in the middle on the opposite side is too easy to accidently press. Like the Rezound, there are no accents in the earpiece, power button and volume rocker all of which also feel kind of cheap. For a phone setup to use on-screen buttons, there is an awful lot of empty wasted space on the top and bottom bezels, the bottom in particular could easily hold capacitive buttons which would be much better than on-screen ones (really don’t like them at all!). I do have to admit that vanilla ICS is pretty well-rounded, but it still lacks a lot of the intuitiveness, inherent features and polish of Sense.
Happy Birthday Thunderbolt! Oh how I still appreciate thee! LOL
I have the 3200 hr battery on both not bad at all Looks big but I like the extra grip surface of the sedio Active case protects phone well 
so far it has lasted longer than my BB storm I went through 3 before half my contract was even over my wife 5. I just hope HTC gets a Better and brighter screen 
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