I really like my Droid DNA from Verizon, except for one thing. If it lost signal it wouldn't reacquire it. The only reasonable way to get it back was to reboot the phone, and I had gotten into the habit of checking the phone many times per day to see if that was necessary. Sometimes I had to reboot as many as a dozen times in a single day.

That isn't supposed to be necessary. When the phone loses the cell it's supposed to try to reacquire it. There are a number of different strategies involved which balance power consumption against the obvious need to reacquire. (I know about this stuff; I used to work on that firmware.) But that stuff wasn't working.

Yesterday they rolled out a firmware update, and that bug appears to be fixed. Just now I turned the phone on, and it said it wasn't connected, and then it reconnected even as I was watching.

Since that was my only objection, I now heartily recommend the Verizon Droid DNA. It is genuinely awesome in every other way. When I was a kid, and telephones had rotary dials (touch tone was introduced when I was in 5th grade) I never thought I'd live to see something like this.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Daily Life at 11:18 AM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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1 Cell phones have literally changed the concept of calling a person, instead of a place.

Posted by: Mauser at April 16, 2013 02:03 PM (cZPoz)

2 I would probably have gone for the Droid DNA (or the Butterfly, the international version) if they'd bothered to launch it in Australia.    Great hardware specs and great industrial design.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 17, 2013 06:01 PM (PiXy!)

3 Can you get it without a contract?

Posted by: muon at April 17, 2013 07:58 PM (jFJid)

4 It would cost a lot. The phone companies subsidize the handsets they sell; that's why you have to sign a contract for a fixed period of time, with a penalty if you stop early.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 17, 2013 08:35 PM (+rSRq)

5 Yep.  The one place I know that was selling the Droid DNA / Butterfly in Australia was asking A$829 (US$829... near enough), and now they're out of stock.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 19, 2013 01:16 AM (PiXy!)

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