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jhonb222

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I want to buy a android phone. So give me some suggestion about which is the latest and best android phone. Thank you
 
1. HTC One Google Edition.
2. Galaxy S4 Google Edition.
3. Nexus 4.

All 3 are unlocked and come with pure vanilla Android. All will work on AT&T or T-Mobile and will have good resale.
 
I won't recommend either Google edition. You'd be paying full price for the One and S4 minus the bells and whistles they put. It's overcharging. The overhead price on the hardware includes the price for the software development of Sense and Touchwiz which doesn't exist on those devices. Even if you say you don't like either, those are ripoffs IMO.
 
chanchan05 said:
I won't recommend either Google edition. You'd be paying full price for the One and S4 minus the bells and whistles they put. It's overcharging. The overhead price on the hardware includes the price for the software development of Sense and Touchwiz which doesn't exist on those devices. Even if you say you don't like either, those are ripoffs IMO.
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While a lot of money, if a user is going to put an AOSP rom on a S4 or One anyways, then at least these versions will be much more stable. Not to mention the AT&T/T-Mobile versions come sim locked, with the AT&T S4 bootloader locked as well(though there is a work around). So IMO, it all comes down to what you value.
 
Crashdamage said:
1. HTC One Google Edition.
2. Galaxy S4 Google Edition.
3. Nexus 4.

All 3 are unlocked and come with pure vanilla Android. All will work on AT&T or T-Mobile and will have good resale.
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HTC One and S4 are the current hardware trend setters.

Nexus 4 is the current Nexus device. (You will always get Android updates direct from google and you buy the phone brand new from google at a decent price)
 
HTC and Samsung should charge *less* for phones with Sense, Touchwiz and assorted bloatware. Discount for annoying crapware and delayed or nonexistent upgrades.
 
Crashdamage said:
HTC and Samsung should charge *less* for phones with Sense, Touchwiz and assorted bloatware. Discount for annoying crapware and delayed or nonexistent upgrades.
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Depends on the person. For example, while I do not like the limited personalization features the TouchWiz homescreen has (which is why I use Nova), I like some of the other things it brings. The TouchWiz music player for instance has almost all of the features of PowerAmp, and its technically free with the phone. The toggles on the notification bar and accessible controls are a nice touch, and are way better than third party toggles because they bypass the Android security limitations like for GPS toggles. The S-Pen apps are part of TouchWiz and they are very nice to have as well. The stock TouchWiz messaging app has even more features than some third party apps as well.

Not everyone needs every single upgrade, and not everyone thinks these stuff are crapware. Although I may be biased since luckily my carrier doesn't add bloatware to the device.
 
Additionally, from what I can recall it is all or nothing. You get all of the bloatware or none of it. I hear great things about the camera features on the HTC One, but you have to take all of the HTC addons to use it.
 
The only bloatware on my phone (HTC One) are the things I never use, Dropbox parent dashboard, watch (htc movie service) & some of the google play stuff... books, magazines, movies and music. All the rest of the stuff is highly functional and high quality.. I don't stress that I can't remove it as they take up little space, don't cause any problems on the phone and don't sync..

I haven't seen anything about the Nexus that would make me ditch this phone, for it's price it is amazing and of course you get the quick updates but specs wise it isn't close to my phone & it's far from perfect, battery life and camera are questionable.
 
Crashdamage said:
HTC and Samsung should charge *less* for phones with Sense, Touchwiz and assorted bloatware. Discount for annoying crapware and delayed or nonexistent upgrades.
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Whilst I find some of the extras annoying, as has already been pointed out, they don't take up much space (16GB SGS4 issues aside) and if you don't like them, just ignore them.

The update issues and bloatware etc, I'd say the general masses don't really care about. I've mates who refuse OTA's and my mum's SGS2 is still on Gingerbread because she never bothers checking. It's normally the likes of us, who spend time on phone forums, that care about having being updated the most and we're in the minority.

Don't get me wrong, I love my Nexus 4, but if someone asked me to trade it for the HTC One, I'd do it in a second.

Anyway, jhonb222, what's your budget?
 
1. You cannot just put the space issue with the SG4 aside. It's still gonna be there.

2. You cannot just ignore Sense or Touchwiz. I've tried but they permeate the OS everywhere.

3. My advice *was* for someone in a phone forum, not just the general public.

I'd trade my Nexus 4 for a HTC One too, but only for the Google Edition. No way for the standard version.
 
Another question is what country are you in? Handset availability varies. For example, unless you are in the US you can ignore the talk of "Google Edition" One or S4, because they aren't available elsewhere.

The HTC One and Samsung S4 are overall the leading models at the moment. But if you have specific requirements, eg very large screen, or waterproofing, the answer changes. So if you can tell us what's important to you we can provide better answers.
 
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