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Which phone should I buy

I have sold my Atrix and want to buy a new phone
Which one should i go for?
Samsung Galaxy S2
Samsung Galaxy NEXUS
HTC Sensation
Motorola Droid RAZR
Which one has a better build quality, performance, display,roms and battery life.
thanks

The Nexus is my suggestion. I own an S2 but after using a Nexus for a few days I find it to be remarkable. The screen has higher res and the only drawback is a 5 MP shooter, which ain't all that bad but not best compared to the competition. And the biggest reason to buy a Nexus- timely updates from Google without having to wait for your OEM to dish a version with their custom UI.
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Samsung Galaxy S2 is my choice if I want to buy.
Good quality
And I always say NO with HTC

SG2 is your best option

Why not the S3? I mean, if you already have the S2 I doesnt recommend the change but if you are going away for the Atrix hell, why do not entre in S3 heaven directly?
The battery life on the S2 and S3 are out of this world.

I have a GS2 but I wish I got the Nexus now. Only because it's Google branded and you're always guaranteed the latest firmware. In my opinion the design on the Nexus is better than the GS2, but obviously the S2 camera poops on the Nexus. But if you aren't going to use it that much them who cares?
Plus the resolution on the Nexus is higher.
Your decision though!
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Ren7on said:
Why not the S3? I mean, if you already have the S2 I doesnt recommend the change but if you are going away for the Atrix hell, why do not entre in S3 heaven directly?
The battery life on the S2 and S3 are out of this world.
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Lol, S2 battery life sucks! I charge it all night from 0% to 100% and use it for 4 hours and I'm already down to 25%! All I've done is text, go on Twitter and Facebook (10-20 mins each) and then just left it locked.
I ordered the 2000MAH battery though. Hopefully that extra 400MAH will get me through a day at school!
PS. No Widgets and the only thing that syncs (hourly) is GMail.
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Lol, S2 battery life sucks! I charge it all night from 0% to 100% and use it for 4 hours and I'm already down to 25%! All I've done is text, go on Twitter and Facebook (10-20 mins each) and then just left it locked.
I ordered the 2000MAH battery though. Hopefully that extra 400MAH will get me through a day at school!
PS. No Widgets and the only thing that syncs (hourly) is GMail.
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Agree. I've heard the same stuff on S2 battery life and my friend who owns one told me it sucked.
S3 however does have good battery life but I don't think its in the OPs price range
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I cant say much about the HTC or RAZR because i have never played with them, but i used to own an s2 and got rid of it for the nexus. I am so happy i switched to the nexus its definitely the better phone. The S2 may have better hardware, but whats the point of having better hardware if your going to be stuck with the old bloated down software. My nexus runs faster than my s2 and the battery life is much better.

Thanks for the suggestion so now i will decide b/w Nexus and S2 but only one thing that i don't like about Nexus is that its has no sd card slot.

NEXUS
Samsung Galaxy NEXUS coz its the best phone for modding...

HTC Sensation...nice yeah

no doubt go 4 s2

terminator1983 said:
Thanks for the suggestion so now i will decide b/w Nexus and S2 but only one thing that i don't like about Nexus is that its has no sd card slot.
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Yes that's the Achilles heel for the Nexus. The only 2 things that you have to compromise on a Nexus, the slightly poor camera and the ext storage.
See if these are 2 deciding factors for you and go ahead. I for one haven't used up the 16 GB on my S2 so having a phone without ext storage isn't a big deal.
Else if you're willing to wait, get the next Nexus Let us know what you decide on.
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Nexus

terminator1983 said:
I have sold my Atrix and want to buy a new phone
Which one should i go for?
Samsung Galaxy S2
Samsung Galaxy NEXUS
HTC Sensation
Motorola Droid RAZR
Which one has a better build quality, performance, display,roms and battery life.
thanks
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I'd go for Samsung Infuse 4g considering your list or devices as it is unbrickable ...

LG Optimus ME is hard to brick, Best phone Ive ever used.

nik007rock said:
no doubt go 4 s2
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yes S2 is best choice

Stay with N4 or get GS4 / HTC ONE?

What's your thoughts on these 2? Should I stay with my N4 or go with one of them... Are they better than the N4?
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monchy36 said:
What's your thoughts on these 2? Should I stay with my N4 or go with one of them... Are they better than the N4?
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Are you tied to a contract at all with your N4? The specs appear to be better on the newer phones, but you must hold strong and stay away from hype and read some good Vs. reviews. Personally I'd hold on another year to the N4 (quality, solid, well supported device) and see what next year has to offer.

monchy36 said:
What's your thoughts on these 2? Should I stay with my N4 or go with one of them... Are they better than the N4?
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That's a personal choice nobody here can rely help you as some prefer one, the other or the 3rd. We all have different views. Go watch some reviews or go in store to compared them if you can.

barondebxl said:
That's a personal choice nobody here can rely help you as some prefer one, the other or the 3rd. We all have different views. Go watch some reviews or go in store to compared them if you can.
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I understand on personal choice but coming from iPhone I don't know to much on the background of each device... On a general opinion which device has better performance base on previous devices... That's all I'm asking... I though I have the best android but honestly my wife's GS3 looks faster and better battery than mine... But I don't like the look and color options... The new HTC looks nice but I have friends that said the previous device are bad...
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monchy36 said:
I understand on personal choice but coming from iPhone I don't know to much on the background of each device... On a general opinion which device has better performance base on previous devices... That's all I'm asking... I though I have the best android but honestly my wife's GS3 looks faster and better battery than mine... But I don't like the look and color options... The new HTC looks nice but I have friends that said the previous device are bad...
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I used HTC One V, X and S for a certain period of time. They all worked without any problems, except for One V, that one was feeling a bit laggy, but it's the first device in the HTC One line and has only 512mb of RAM. Anyway, I would go for the HTC One

Stay
Nexus for is a good phone! I wpuld suggest you to wait to the end of this year (or maybe little more).

monchy36 said:
I understand on personal choice but coming from iPhone I don't know to much on the background of each device... On a general opinion which device has better performance base on previous devices... That's all I'm asking... I though I have the best android but honestly my wife's GS3 looks faster and better battery than mine... But I don't like the look and color options... The new HTC looks nice but I have friends that said the previous device are bad...
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I understand but what might be a better performer for me may be different for someone else and previous devices don't matter, now is what matters. All the reviews online will help you more, trust me. And the nexus 4, HTC One and galaxy s 4 are all fast phones so it won't even matter. What matters is if you like stock android, if you like sense or touchwiz, if you're ok with a plastic phone or if you need a premium looking phone, if you need the best performer in the camera... there are so many factors here and again we all have different opinions, even some of us are having a hard time choosing but if speed is what you're looking for than the nexus 4 is very fast I can tell you that now.

Please use the sticky in this forum or even the one in the N4 forum for this conversation
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[DISCUSSION] What is the killer feature that it made you buy the note 3 and its bigge

What the title says.
For me personally the killer features were the spen,the display and the multiwindow. The main problem that I found is probably the speaker(and also disappointed by the camera)
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For me it's the display and removable battery & sdcard
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Display resolution/size
3GB of Ram
SnapDragon
S-Pen

everything
not joking, huge improvement from Galaxy Note 1 / Galaxy S2

CAT-4 LTE, the removable battery and expandable storage (though the battery life on this thing is so much better than my GNexus that I doubt I'll ever need a second battery) all played a big part.
However if I'm honest, I'd figured I was getting a phablet way back in may but I was torn between the Note 3 or the One Max - I loved the design of the One and yes, the non-removable battery and non-expandable storage were sucky but I figured if they released a bigger version of it, I'd be sold.
Then IFA came and went and HTC announced nothing. Then rumours circulated that it would have a downgraded processor and after seeing the Note 3, I decided I'd waited long enough.
I'm pretty sure the exact moment I made my mind up (And this will sound stupid) was when I seen that it had a USB3 port instead.

I'd planned not to get it but it's just so damn gorgeous looking I couldn't resist. Display, s-pen and battery life are all an improvement over the Note 2 and I have 32gb internal storage now so all good.
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The s-pen!
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oneandroidnut said:
For me it's the display and removable battery & sdcard
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+1, only Samsung still has these, HTC Sony Nexus don't have .

Display Amoled
Screen Size
S Pen feature
Battery life
Brand
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Multiwindow. To me there is no other reason to run anything other than stock android. Touchwiz is disgusting, but at least Samsung added some cool functionality for power users.
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full HD large screen.
S pen.
32 gb memory.
3 gb ram.

The large display
The battery life (it has the most amazing battery life compared to my previous android phones)
The spen (still couldnt get to scrapbook a youtube video though..does anyone know how?)
The 32gb internal storage and last but not least the one handed operation..though its a big phone but feels compact for daily use. Just my 2 cent
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FullHD, and killer screen size 5,7"
Super fast phone, no lagging what so ever.
Cat. 4 LTE connectivity.
Must say I'm very pleased so far, this is so much faster than my SGS3 was.

batna.antab said:
What the title says.
For me personally the killer features were the spen,the display and the multiwindow. The main problem that I found is probably the speaker(and also disappointed by the camera)
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What's wrong with the camera? I think it's one of the best in any smart phone in terms of clarity
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It's my addiction with upgrading phones ;p
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better battery life
external sd
note function
coming from htc one x+, honestly, i'm impressed with the note functionality. no need notebook and pen anymore.

maidangisme said:
+1, only Samsung still has these, HTC Sony Nexus don't have .
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yup htc one would be my baby if it had those two options

yuu.hack said:
better battery life
external sd
note function
coming from htc one x+, honestly, i'm impressed with the note functionality. no need notebook and pen anymore.
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Yeah, touch wiz is a very refined skin with tons of well done feature, but god, it's so ugly and heavy(it uses too much ram and stutters sometimes,)
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oneandroidnut said:
For me it's the display and removable battery & sdcard
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Looks like you used to have an iphone

my opinion
Samsung galaxy note 3 is an all rounder device..has almost everything..
sony z1 and lg 2 are also very good but lacks some important features..like lg g2 doesn't have external sd and sony z1 display is not as good as Samsung(personal opinion so pls don't start an argument)..and i watched many reviews where they claimed the sony z1 camera is not as good as what sony is claiming..
on the other hand, Samsung has s-pen and unique multitasking features..
in my country lg g2 and sony z1 both are cheaper than gn3..but i still bought gn3 as it has everything i want..and lacks nothing (although ois in camera wud have been a nice addition)

Nexus 5 vs. HTC One performance experience question.

I know these threads drive people nuts. I'm a phone junky. Over the last 2 years I've had at least 4 phones. Although i've had my HTC One since launch day - coming up on one year.
I hate skins on android. That's why I root and install an AOSP based ROM on my devices. I also like battery life and A2DP Bluetooth streaming.
So...anyone out there think the nexus is a worthwhile upgrade?. I'm already running KitKat. Software is no advantage the Nexus has. However... Is the Nexus a worthy upgrade? I have read that battery life was disappointing at launch. Is it still bad? What does the N5 offer over my One?
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You're comparing a 350-400 dollar phone I suggest keeping g that 500-600$ MSRP phone you have..
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I had the One before the N5. Nothing wrong with the One, but honestly the only thing I miss is the speakers. I personally like the bigger screen, and I'm getting better battery life now. Overall better experience, imo.
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bbabiuk said:
I know these threads drive people nuts. I'm a phone junky. Over the last 2 years I've had at least 4 phones. Although i've had my HTC One since launch day - coming up on one year.
I hate skins on android. That's why I root and install an AOSP based ROM on my devices. I also like battery life and A2DP Bluetooth streaming.
So...anyone out there think the nexus is a worthwhile upgrade?. I'm already running KitKat. Software is no advantage the Nexus has. However... Is the Nexus a worthy upgrade? I have read that battery life was disappointing at launch. Is it still bad? What does the N5 offer over my One?
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My 2 cents give the nexus the skip.

i had the htc one and the gs4.. sold my htc one to get the gs4.. then sold my gs4 to get the nexus 5.. i think the n5 is way better the both the gs4 and one.. thats just me.. this is my first nexus phone i love it.. i been threw like 6 top of the line phone in the past 3 yaers.. htc evo 4g.. htc evo 3d.. htc evo 4g LTE.. GS3. HTC ONE.. GS4... Nexus 5 is my fev phone out of all of them

I went from the GS4 to the N5 and haven't regretted it for a second. Out of 12 phones that I've owned over the last 3-4 years, this is easily the best one.

Get the N5 and keep the One.
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qbanlinxx said:
I had the One before the N5. Nothing wrong with the One, but honestly the only thing I miss is the speakers. I personally like the bigger screen, and I'm getting better battery life now. Overall better experience, imo.
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So comparatively...battery life is on par?
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Let me tell you a story:
Once upon a time, there was a guy who wanted an awesome new android phone. He decided to buy an HTC amaze as that was probably the best phone on the market at the time. He got it 1 month after the phone came out on the market and it was awesome. He enjoyed using it for 9 mos. before HTC decided to stop supporting their FLAGSHIP phone! Alas that phone was relegated to ICS forever.
Then, his girlfriend wanted a new phone and he thought, well, maybe it was just my bad luck to buy the HTC amaze right before HTC decided to realign their phone offerings. The HTC One S looks very good and it has the latest snapdragon S4 chip in it. So he bought her that phone and 9 mos later, HTC announces no more updates after android 4.1.2!
Moral of the story: stick with HTC one if you want an obsolete android OS in 1 year.
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bbabiuk said:
So comparatively...battery life is on par?
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I'm getting an extra 2 hours of SOT
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one phone i'd trade for is the samsung note 3! give me that anyday over the nex5

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Battery life is as good or better. I still have my One and mainly use it to play music, but the Nexus outperforms it in every way and also seems to have a better antenna than the One. Plus, the Nexus has ART which I know is not supported on the HTC One because of Sense.
It's a very worthy upgrade. I do miss the speakers, Aux Sound Output, and sometimes a few 'Sense' things like BlinkFeed and the features in the stock messaging app.

I was in the same Situation like you and i dont regret getting the n5 at all. I had the GpE of the one and still the n5 beats it by a longshot. Speakers and build quality aside the n5 wins everything
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Radixtrator said:
I was in the same Situation like you and i dont regret getting the n5 at all. I had the GpE of the one and still the n5 beats it by a longshot. Speakers and build quality aside the n5 wins everything
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Thanks. I have been teetering. I likely will order an N5. I'm going to wait another couple weeks first as a sanity check. But I seriously an leaning towards buying it.
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GGWC808 said:
Let me tell you a story:
Once upon a time, there was a guy who wanted an awesome new android phone. He decided to buy an HTC amaze as that was probably the best phone on the market at the time. He got it 1 month after the phone came out on the market and it was awesome. He enjoyed using it for 9 mos. before HTC decided to stop supporting their FLAGSHIP phone! Alas that phone was relegated to ICS forever.
Then, his girlfriend wanted a new phone and he thought, well, maybe it was just my bad luck to buy the HTC amaze right before HTC decided to realign their phone offerings. The HTC One S looks very good and it has the latest snapdragon S4 chip in it. So he bought her that phone and 9 mos later, HTC announces no more updates after android 4.1.2!
Moral of the story: stick with HTC one if you want an obsolete android OS in 1 year.
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Software doesn't concern me. I hate running skinned android. I root and flash custom ROMs. I mainly want to know if the new device will yield a better experience...
Battery life
Performance
I get the sound will not be on par with my One...the boom speakers are great.
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I had the HTC One before the Nexus 5 as well,and I love the Nexus. The One is a great phone, but the One has 1) A faster chipset 2) bigger screen 3) STOCK Android (yay!!!)
However, if you're satisfied with your One.. just keep it. Unless you're dead set on having stock Android. The One does have some nice features, like the speakers (yes, stereo speakers) and very good build quality, compared to the Nexus 5 at least, which doesn't seem to fit together perfectly like the One.
As for battery life, I would say it's about equal. They both have the same size battery.

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Thanks. I have been teetering. I likely will order an N5. I'm going to wait another couple weeks first as a sanity check. But I seriously an leaning towards buying it.
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Good luck getting a 90% working ROM for the phone once htc stops supporting it. The Amaze and One S ROMs all have major things broken on it, whether it is Bluetooth or camera or something else not working or not working correctly. So I would say software for HTC phones are important.
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Good luck getting a 90% working ROM for the phone once htc stops supporting it. The Amaze and One S ROMs all have major things broken on it, whether it is Bluetooth or camera or something else not working or not working correctly. So I would say software for HTC phones are important.
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The HTC One does have the benefit of being a GE supported device. Can't predict how that'll play out yet. Besides that, you statement is accurate. I came from ATT with and Atrix4g... the hardware is still great. But zero software support from the OEM and all the ROMs available aren't DD material for someone that uses their phone as part of business.
Hence the move to my HTC One on Sprint/Ting... Just to find out that I should have bought a cheap used nexus s and waited for a N5. :/

The way that I understand the GPE phones work is that Google releases the operating system to HTC and then they optimize it to work with their phone before they push out an update. So updates still have to pass through HTC. If they decide to end support for the one, I doubt they'll continue supporting the GPE phone.
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The way that I understand the GPE phones work is that Google releases the operating system to HTC and then they optimize it to work with their phone before they push out an update. So updates still have to pass through HTC. If they decide to end support for the one, I doubt they'll continue supporting the GPE phone.
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That's just it. Even though the UI of the GPE One is all Google, it actually uses the stock Sense kernel. Once HTC stops updating the phone, it stops for the Google Edition as well.

Sell Nexus 5 and get Galaxy S5 ?

What do you think about Galaxy S5 ?
Is it worth alternative for a future upgrade ?

No
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It's a downgrade in my opinion. Touchwiz is really, really bad.

It depends what you want to do with the phone.. Are you trying to run custom Roms. Root has been achieved, but not sure if Knox will be cracked to get to the bootloader.. I would wait and see how it goes. The new HTC one may be a better route. I know you can use bootstrap to run customs Roms. I just don't think they run as good as when you have an unlocked bootloader.
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I played with an S5 in Best Buy yesterday. Definitely a downgrade. It's still stuttery like other galaxy phones, the new touch wiz leaves a lot to be desired. The only thing in my opinion that the s5 does better than the nexus is the camera. The only thing I personally would upgrade to would be the new HTC one at this point. I played with one of those too, very nice.
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jodvova said:
What do you think about Galaxy S5 ?
Is it worth alternative for a future upgrade ?
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do you really want to change your $350 phone for a $600+ phone with nearly the same specs, some more gimmicks and a fugly UI? what will you use the extra 200MHz for? you wont feel the difference between the N5 and S5. well, maybe the N5 will feel smoother, since the new samsung crap UI appears to be choppy at some points. Quite honestly, after all the issues I had with samsung, I'd never consider going back to their devices. nuh uh.

If I got an S5 for free, I'd sell it then buy the Nexus 5.

you'll get better response if you ask in G5 forum

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If I got an S5 for free, I'd sell it then buy the Nexus 5.
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Seriously. The spec upgrade is so minor and touchwiz sucks. Why not get 300+ dollars in the bank and still stay top of the line?

spunkfaucet666 said:
I played with an S5 in Best Buy yesterday. Definitely a downgrade. It's still stuttery like other galaxy phones, the new touch wiz leaves a lot to be desired. The only thing in my opinion that the s5 does better than the nexus is the camera. The only thing I personally would upgrade to would be the new HTC one at this point. I played with one of those too, very nice.
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Is it so much sluttery ? Which model did you try ? SM-G900H ?
I tried M8 the other day (hasn't played with S5 yet), it was as fast as Nexus 5 while navigating through the menus and etc.

Get HTC One M8 GPE
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im done with htc and samsung is out of my league..i dislike sense and a GE rom is not a true nexus experience so nexus for me all the way
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hello00 said:
im done with htc and samsung is out of my league..i dislike sense and a GE rom is not a true nexus experience so nexus for me all the way
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Samsung can cripple any device`s speed with TW, i like Sense 100 times better tbh.

i have both a n5 and a s4. sure, by specs, the s4 holds its own, and appears to be better than the n5. but in reality, even with the s4 optimized and all the crap disabled, the s4 tends to lag and stutter. it feels like a phone from a few years ago, by the amount it tends to stutter. it doesnt feel like a phone with the specs it has. the n5 truly blows it away with real time use.

hello00 said:
im done with htc and samsung is out of my league..i dislike sense and a GE rom is not a true nexus experience so nexus for me all the way
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I had S4 GE in past and now on Nexus 5. They are exactly the same in terms of software.
The only downside, a new version of Android comes earlier to Nexus than to GE device.

simms22 said:
i have both a n5 and a s4. sure, by specs, the s4 holds its own, and appears to be better than the n5. but in reality, even with the s4 optimized and all the crap disabled, the s4 tends to lag and stutter. it feels like a phone from a few years ago, by the amount it tends to stutter. it doesnt feel like a phone with the specs it has. the n5 truly blows it away with real time use.
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How a snapdragon 600 can be better than snapdragon 800 ???

First, do what you want....we can't decide for you. ?
Second , it seems its getting harder and harder to play with new phones....some may never see root, or there will be complicated hack ways to root. Yes, many have dev type editions....but development for them is slow and limited. (Like moto x say)
So, if you like flashing and playing, the only sure bet now days is a nexus. If you can live with a quiet or non existant development community..... Then there's lots of great phones on the way or out. ?
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And personally.... If there's a chance I'd be stuck on touchwiz.......no way would I touch any samsung again. Lol
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Get this crap out of n5 general

Nexus5 forever

jodvova said:
I had S4 GE in past and now on Nexus 5. They are exactly the same in terms of software.
The only downside, a new version of Android comes earlier to Nexus than to GE device.
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they are the same but it does not have the same performance as if u were using a device with true aosp preinstalled..i had the GE htc one before and it is far behind as performance wise and sluggish
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