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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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