The Nexus is nice, but it fails hard at the primary thing I use it for, streaming music using Bluetooth. Takes forever to start playing after I start the car, cuts out when resources are low, stutters. Really annoying.

I'm almost to the point where I'm considering going back to iPhone. I've almost got the Android bug out of my system. For awhile I thought I might start developing personal apps, and I think I'd rather target Android than iPhone, but I think I'm over that too.

Agree. Just as a current example, I've got a Moto X phone that cost me about $400-450 as opposed to something like $650-700 for an iPhone 6 or Galaxy (whatever the current one is). This thing is solid. Cool bamboo back, aluminum edges, and glass front gives me the totally-unnecessary-but-clearly-desirable "neato" aesthetic and the specs offer performance on par with pretty much any other high end phone. The Samsungs have neither the quality construction/aesthetics of an iPhone or the Moto but they do come with a wacky layer of skinning and apps that the OEM added on. I feel like Samsung means paying premium prices for non-premium quality. I'd take a $350 Nexus 5 if I wanted to save some money, $400-450 Moto X if I want a balance, or even a $650-700 iPhone if I really wanted iOS before buying anything from Samsung.