HTC is worse from what I've seen. Moto stepped it up several if not many notches with their original droid, can't say much about the X, but with verizon's support, even if you do get a dud you'll get a new one quick and free, as long as they don't backorder, which I'm not sure the droid did, I came in about 2-3 weeks after release and go it the same day.