Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone

Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by jbluepolarbear on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:24PM (#30078977)

Galaxy Nexus was a great phone at the time for the price. I had just gotten the galaxy 2 then realized that sprint had no coverage in Portland so I cancelled my contract (didn’t have to pay because I proved they mislead there coverage area). Moved to a GN on T-Mobile and loved it until I replaced it with a nexus 5x. GN was a good little phone to learn android dev on as well.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by fossuser on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:52PM (#30080272)

I really disliked the hardware, battery life was awful for me even after replacing it with their extended size OEM battery.

It felt like cheap plastic crap too (imo).

The iPhone 5 was the first iOS phone with turn by turn nav and LTE which were the reasons I stuck with the Nexus phones as each one got worse. The 5's battery life was also ridiculously good in comparison and the hardware design holds up even now ten years later.

The HTC Nexus One was the best of the first three, I'm not sure why Samsung gets so much love for hardware. The Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus builds were both ugly and poor. The Nokia N9 was beautiful and I was bummed when Microsoft turned them into windows only devices, they would have been great android phones.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by jbluepolarbear on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:42PM (#30089839)

The GN was meant to be a budget phone for developers to jump into Android. It wasn’t meant to be the best phone. Samsung offered the Galaxy 2 at that time that was much better. The GN cost $350 no contract which was unheard of at the time.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by fossuser on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:08PM (#30090984)

The Nexus phones were the only ones that shipped pure android without a lot of OEM crapware installed you couldn't remove (Samsung's "Touchwiz").

That was another thing at the time which pushed me away from android, they didn't have control over their OS because of this lack of control over hardware.

It was a little like Windows and all the crap that came installed on it, except worse because you couldn't even reset it.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by emptyparadise on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:44PM (#30080611)

Nokia phones were really beautiful up until their bitter end.

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Re:Google Is Forcing Me to Dump a Perfectly Good Phone by jay_kyburz on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:23PM (#30081670)

I like them now. I'm using some $300 Nokia and its nice. Big clear screen, surfs the web just fine. Can make calls and texts. That's all I use my phone for.

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