I love HTC phones.

I adored my Thunderbolt until Verizon rolled out an Android update that rendered its hardware obsolete. Everything was working; post-update, most apps were taking a minute or more to open. I think this was somewhere in the Android 2.x era.

I replaced the Thunderbolt with Verizon's rendition of the One M8, the Droid DNA, and I loved that phone just as much as the Thunderbolt.

The DNA lasted long enough for me to get out of contract with Verizon, but the battery died shortly the...