Lets see if we can get a discussion going about the semi-recent release of the Droid DNA(HTC J Butterfly/DLX) here in the U.S. on Verizon.
I recently got the Droid DNA about last Wednesday/Thursday and I have been really pleased with the performance, scoring almost 8,300 on Quadrant and the screen is outright amazing. Apps/Games such as Angry Birds, Temple Run, Drag Racing, Paper Toss, Plague Inc, Steam, Quadrant, etc. all scale amazingly well(especially Angry Birds, the menu is outright tiny!).
My father has Verizon as his work carrier and so I was able to test the 4G consumption of this phone for about a day of daily use; so 4G LTE connection all day, constant email checking, texting, calling, etc. for a 9-5 work day and usually his Thunderbolt is around 35% at the end of the day, but the DNA had around 70% left! Since I have T-Mobile as my carrier and I don't pay for data my ending battery after school is around 70% as well, but that is after playing Pokemon Blue during breaks, listening to music/videos, texting/calling and if I leave the brightness a bit too high during videos/games it does consume battery pretty heavily. The only thing wrong with the phone is the crap bloatware(which will be removed once a stable ROM comes about) and Sense doesn't tax the phone as much as I thought it would, currently is around 100MB of RAM used out of the total 2GB.
Now the camera is pretty awesome with features like panorama, HDR and a very nice focusing ability. Haven't had the time to truly take pictures of certain terrain with acceptable lighting, but it is a very nice camera. Also haven't tried the 1080p/720p video recording as I haven't had anything to record.
It's a very nice phone and the lack of a SD card on the Verizon version is a bit disheartening, but as an avid music and video listener/watcher, I can easily compress 720p videos down a lot and it won't take up much room, currently with seven 720p music videos, three movies(one being 720p), about 100 songs with multiple games and apps installed, I have about 7GB left out of the total 16GB(11GB useable). Most likely when a ROM comes out with stock Android, it will decrese a bit more(and with the Verizon crap removed), I should see about 12GB-14GB useable. Also note that the International version of this phone(the HTC J Butterfly) will have a SD card slot that will allow you up to 32GB more storage.
If you have any questions about the phone, feel free to post below or shoot me a PM.