| rocketpig said: It's an HTC Inspire. I'm almost certain my problems stem from the piece of shit Sense skin that HTC puts on their phones. Before I ditch the phone I'm going to root it but right now, the ICS roots available aren't 100% operable and my cell is my only phone. I can't risk bricking it just so it annoys me a little less. Don't even get me started on Google's decision to let manufacturers skin phones. Or for the carriers to add "no, you can't uninstall this" bloatware to the device. Siri is definitely not perfect. But it's getting better and after using Google's voice implementation for quite some time (and seeing those updates to iOS6), I'd still have to say it's a lot closer than what anyone else is offering. At this point, the only Google device I will even consider for more than a split second are the Nexus devices. And that simply shouldn't be the case. It shouldn't be that hard to find an Android device that has the latest OS, isn't cobbled up with bloatware and a piece of shit skin, and will have hardware support for more than 30 seconds after purchase. If I'm spending $200 outright and $100/month, that kind of service should be automatic. |
I don't think it will be as bad now. The major point behind Android 4 is the move to standardization and a push for better upgrades. So far every OEMs implementation of an Android 4.0 phone has been about less changes to ICS. The only reason to do that is to allow far faster upgrades.
Also, I don't know when you got the inspire, but I would have never considered it a top phone. Feb2011 had far better phones out. Just my two cents.
But, you got to go with what you feel best with. I have Nexus phone and love it. However, I like plain Android best anyways. When I rooted/rom'd my last phone I always with with an AOSP rom.
Additionally, its strongly rumored that during google i/o event they will announce Nexus devices from just about every OEM, I think 5 total. Along with an Asus Nexus 7" tablet for $200. Basically means, Android is slowly moving to a single UI standard.
