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To: Mr. Blonde

If it were up to me, they all would run stock Froyo, Gingerbread, Ice Cream Sandwich, whatever...I can’t think of a single carrier specific app that I ever use. I don’t really use the manufacturer skins or launcher either. I like my phone to be the way ***I*** want it. That’s what’s nice about the Nexus phones...no bloat, just stock Android with updates as soon as Google pushes them out the door.


163 posted on 06/08/2011 4:58:32 PM PDT by F1reEng1neRed
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To: F1reEng1neRed

The skins are of varying usefulness. Those not inclined to tinker probably like them more. You can get most of the usefulness from other apps if you so choose. I believe it is Acer who allows you to choose to use their skin on bootup which I think is genius and should be a requirement for all manufacturers.

As for the carrier stuff, I guess the one benefit is that it could help lower the cost of the phone. I’m still crossing my fingers that T-Mobile gets a pretty standard SGS II, but $800 to get it off contract is a pretty high price. I can deal with some bloat to bring that down to $500 or so.


170 posted on 06/09/2011 11:41:03 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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