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superchunk on 11 June 2012
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rocketpig said:

superchunk said:

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.

In February 2011, it was the top phone offered from AT&T and one of the best phones offered from any carrier. The dual core phones didn't release until March or later. It's a 1gz SnapDragon CPU with 768MB of RAM. The only thing it didn't offer was a front-facing camera, which happens to be something I couldn't care less about. Other than that, it was just about the best phone I could buy.

While I doubt I'll stick with Google this time around (it will be hard to get past the bad taste in my mouth), I'm keeping an eye on what they're doing. I like that they're opening up the Nexus platform and unifying the OS a bit. If they get it properly sorted, I may return to the OS next time I upgrade. I have no issues with Google itself, I just really disagree with some of their choices and feel like I kinda got burned with this Android phone. Fix those problems moving forward and there's a chance I'll come back to the platform.

Yeah, I guess you're right with AT&T. They almost always had a worse selection of Android than Verizon. Man had you waited a month or two you could have gotten the Galaxy S2. That phone was bad ass as will be the S3 in a few weeks.

The S3, current Galaxy Nexus, and rumors on the next Nexii coming soon are all really good. You should definitely know more about them by the time iPhone5 is launched in ... September or so. If you get a chance next month, go to a store and check out the S3. Its a really sweet phone. I'm probably getting one for my wife.