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by zzleeper 3868 days ago
Anecdata:

After a few years with a great Nexus 4, my phone broke down and I switched to a Moto G Pure (the best thing I could find on a short notice, as those Nexus phones take a while to ship..)

It's a mostly ok phone, but the devil is in the details.. some of which I hate:

- The phone's vibration feel like an earthquake. I got a case just to ameliorate it and it still buzzes off everyone 100ft around me. Heck, I turned it OFF for voice and alerts but it still somehow vibrates for whatsapp and some games. Now I just don't play those games and have the phone in "do not disturb mode" so it doesn't vibrate like crazy.

- It has no led, so if I was away from the phone I can't see if I have an alert without touching the phone (perhaps that's why they made it vibrate so much? so that no matter where I am I know if I got a text?)

- It still uses the previous version of android even though it's a 2 month old phone which I just bought. This means no per-app permissions, etc.

So my point is.. yes you do need to get the details right! Just getting 95% there is useless, and that's where Moto and Samsung are. Maybe if they go back to only a few models they could get them right..