Granted, I have only owned 3. The Droid X has really been too much of a hassle for me, it might just have been my phone, I don't know, but this has been my experience.
First smartphone was the iPhone 3G. That lasted me about 3 years. Simple and did what I needed it to do, mostly web browsing and music. Not much of an app person. It worked well, I kept it nice, in a case and screen protector, and resold it in very good condition when I moved to Verizon w/ my cousins.
This was not much more than a year ago, Droid Incredible through Best Buy. Well, Droid X was being released but some trouble happened, cousins did something about switching owners on the account which voided warranty and 30 day return or something. I don't recall what exactly but it's idiotic. I asked Best Buy about returns, an employee told me yeah sure we can do that. I don't recall exactly why again, but they told me I could return it when the Droid X came out and basically do a swap, but that was past the 30 days. Employee said we can do that. Droid X came, sold out. I waited 2 weeks, called in a lot asking about restocks. It finally came in, I went to the store, I was told no, it's past 30 days.
Ok, forward a little, I am trying to really get that Droid X. I eventually manage to sell Dinc and buy a DX from a user here for a small loss. Maybe this is why the user sold it.
First off, physically, the back panel slid off way too easily + I didn't like a case for this phone as it made it too bulky for me. It would fall off all the time when pulling it out of my pocket, and occasional falls I might have had with the phone. This later was remedied by a newer back panel after my cousin also bought a Droid X (w/ extended battery) a few months later to replace his broken Dinc. Now his back panel is loose to though and he's had to tape it, looks ghetto.
I also felt the phone's back bottom side got too hot after use.
I don't mind performance like small choppiness rather than smoothness when sliding to new pages or opening app drawers. But there was a lot of freezing. Oh man. Music just froze all the time. It would stop at a song when I have shuffle all/repeat on, I'd try to look, I couldn't do anything, forcing me to do a shut down through removing the battery.
There was also just general freezing. The screen could be turned on/off, but I didn't get any feedback from touching it. It didn't go into the lock screen so I'm guessing it froze somehow, just the home screen page (without me doing to do anything more than view that screen) and needed a battery remove too.
Another issue, the phone would just restart itself probably from something that was active, like again, music, or on app I was using. I don't think it was ever from just idling. It would be that i'd think, huh, why isn't my music on anymore. I'd check the phone, and i think after unlocking it, it would just freeze up a little while and then restart itself.
edit: another small issue was camera app messing up and saying that it couldn't be opened at this time. I think I always had to force a restart to get it working again. Kinda time consuming and whatever I wanted to capture would be gone by then.
Lastly, I think the most pressing issue now, is black line that started showing up on my phone. It wasn't dead pixels on the screen, well kinda, since the line got thicker at times, then would get smaller again, so pixels came and went and came back. It was annoying, but I dealt with it. NOW, however, after turning off my phone before an airplane ride, then turning it on somewhere in the middle (i was bored, 12 hour flight), the line became a HUGE hole. There is now a huge black circle on the right side of my screen, slightly smaller than a homescreen icon. Nothing I can see there but darkness.
With all these problems, you can see why I want to upgrade to a new phone, and I'm mostly looking at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Problem is, I'm still locked into a contract for a while. At least, I think so. Really that thing with switching owners on the account confused me. I probably could have used the warranty on my phone.
edit: I checked vzw account managing online with my cousin's account and oddly enough, my line is actually eligible for a discounted upgrade while the other 2 lines aren't, but both have near same contract end dates at me. Lucky me I guess, yay
First smartphone was the iPhone 3G. That lasted me about 3 years. Simple and did what I needed it to do, mostly web browsing and music. Not much of an app person. It worked well, I kept it nice, in a case and screen protector, and resold it in very good condition when I moved to Verizon w/ my cousins.
This was not much more than a year ago, Droid Incredible through Best Buy. Well, Droid X was being released but some trouble happened, cousins did something about switching owners on the account which voided warranty and 30 day return or something. I don't recall what exactly but it's idiotic. I asked Best Buy about returns, an employee told me yeah sure we can do that. I don't recall exactly why again, but they told me I could return it when the Droid X came out and basically do a swap, but that was past the 30 days. Employee said we can do that. Droid X came, sold out. I waited 2 weeks, called in a lot asking about restocks. It finally came in, I went to the store, I was told no, it's past 30 days.
Ok, forward a little, I am trying to really get that Droid X. I eventually manage to sell Dinc and buy a DX from a user here for a small loss. Maybe this is why the user sold it.
First off, physically, the back panel slid off way too easily + I didn't like a case for this phone as it made it too bulky for me. It would fall off all the time when pulling it out of my pocket, and occasional falls I might have had with the phone. This later was remedied by a newer back panel after my cousin also bought a Droid X (w/ extended battery) a few months later to replace his broken Dinc. Now his back panel is loose to though and he's had to tape it, looks ghetto.
I also felt the phone's back bottom side got too hot after use.
I don't mind performance like small choppiness rather than smoothness when sliding to new pages or opening app drawers. But there was a lot of freezing. Oh man. Music just froze all the time. It would stop at a song when I have shuffle all/repeat on, I'd try to look, I couldn't do anything, forcing me to do a shut down through removing the battery.
There was also just general freezing. The screen could be turned on/off, but I didn't get any feedback from touching it. It didn't go into the lock screen so I'm guessing it froze somehow, just the home screen page (without me doing to do anything more than view that screen) and needed a battery remove too.
Another issue, the phone would just restart itself probably from something that was active, like again, music, or on app I was using. I don't think it was ever from just idling. It would be that i'd think, huh, why isn't my music on anymore. I'd check the phone, and i think after unlocking it, it would just freeze up a little while and then restart itself.
edit: another small issue was camera app messing up and saying that it couldn't be opened at this time. I think I always had to force a restart to get it working again. Kinda time consuming and whatever I wanted to capture would be gone by then.
Lastly, I think the most pressing issue now, is black line that started showing up on my phone. It wasn't dead pixels on the screen, well kinda, since the line got thicker at times, then would get smaller again, so pixels came and went and came back. It was annoying, but I dealt with it. NOW, however, after turning off my phone before an airplane ride, then turning it on somewhere in the middle (i was bored, 12 hour flight), the line became a HUGE hole. There is now a huge black circle on the right side of my screen, slightly smaller than a homescreen icon. Nothing I can see there but darkness.
With all these problems, you can see why I want to upgrade to a new phone, and I'm mostly looking at the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Problem is, I'm still locked into a contract for a while. At least, I think so. Really that thing with switching owners on the account confused me. I probably could have used the warranty on my phone.
edit: I checked vzw account managing online with my cousin's account and oddly enough, my line is actually eligible for a discounted upgrade while the other 2 lines aren't, but both have near same contract end dates at me. Lucky me I guess, yay
