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by pkulak 5082 days ago
The problem is the hardware. It's always the hardware with Android. If the phone has a nice camera the GPS is crap. If the GPS works, the screen is shit. Or it's got hardware buttons a year after ICS came out. And if you're lucky enough to get all that? Then it'll have a locked bootloader so you're stuck with whatever TouchSenseBlur crap the manufacturer's marketing department decided to vomit all over the beautiful, stock Android.
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I suspect this is a significant challenge for Google and Android branding in general. When people compare their experiences "with Android" it seems they don't mention the particular hardware they are using. Unlike Apple where if you're using an 'iOS phone' the hardware is known. So its perfectly understandable when two people have diametrically opposed opinions on Android, switch hardware, and switch sides. Its like every dessert was named 'ice cream' and yet some people ate mars bars and some people m&ms and some twizzlers.
What is wrong with the Galaxy Nexus?