Do you absolutely have to give up your old phone if you join Edge? I've never understood if it's a must-do or just knocks some of the cost off the new phone. I spent some time in a local VZW store and the sales drone never gave me a straight answer. He just kept pushing towards the (up to) $100 rebate for turning in a phone on the Edge program. I probably would have upgraded already but for some reason only one of the two phones, both with the same end date on contract, was eligible to go ahead and move to Edge.
My contract is up on 7 December and the Turbo is looking mighty nice. I have heard zero complaints about battery life or weak wifi. Ars Technica got 12+ hours of continuous use on their wifi browsing test; if I spend the day browsing the internet on the DNA I'm lucky to get 5-6. My in-store experience was that the camera was a bit better than people seem to think, too. It definitely was a step up from the one in the Moto X.
Frankly, as much as I love my DNA, it seems like a case of planned obsolescence because over the last week or two it's really begun act strange. I'm getting choppy performance at random times, the broken screen lock thing keeps trying to restart itself (I use the third party BoD Screen No Lock app to keep it unlocked at all times) and battery stamina is really poor.
For the last six months or so, it's only lasted down to about 20% and then it suddenly shuts off mid-use. That's a pretty significant chunk of time I've lost on what's already a poor runtime device. Today, I pulled it off charge at noon, browsed my e-mail and updated about six apps over wifi, and by 2 pm it was down to 60%.
And last but not least, the camera's focus function is starting to give me issues. I've got it set to tap to focus and when I do that, nothing happens. Even in auto-focus mode it's blurry. I have to exit the camera app and restart, or start a different camera app and that usually wakes it back up.
It's almost like it's saying, "C'mon, it's time to upgrade!"
