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Originally Posted by strat61caster
So you're saying there's a night and day difference between an S3 with Touchwiz and an S4 with Touchwiz? Less than a year apart on the release dates? I'm surprised because that's not my perception.
There was 7 months between the release of the S2 and the release of Ice Cream Sandwich and the Holo design convention, the S3 STILL LOOKS AND FEELS LIKE HONEYCOMB. I'm not talking about performance numbers, I'm talking about UI and design, I'm currently on a Google Experience HTC One (I don't plan on reflashing this one) and I think my favorite phone so far (I've been on a couple iphones as well) has been an SGS2 on Cyanogenmod.
I like Android, I like that I can fiddle with it, I don't like how the OEM's have fiddled with it. If I couldn't root and flash my own rom I'd pick Apple over any Android OEM that isn't running as vanilla as possible.
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Dunno about the S3, never used one, but friend had an S2 and I have a RAZR; the experience is significantly slower and worse. I hate Touchwiz and will replace it immediately on a Note unless it's necessary for use with the S Pen. You don't need new ROMs if you just put a different launcher on like Nova or Go Launcher EX. I have Go Launcher right now because... I'm not sure. I used it originally a long time ago to replace MotoBlur on my Droid X and really like the factory widgets it comes with (no one else has as good a calendar widget). Plain vanilla Android is great though, and I enjoy that quite a bit on my Nexus 7 tab. After the buyout from Google, Motorola has significantly toned back their phones too... If the Note 3 weren't so amazing, I'd get the Droid MAXX in a heartbeat.
But as much as I hate touchwiz, I would take it over Apple myself. But I don't exist whatsoever in the iUniverse. I don't have an iphone, mac, ipad, or any apple products outside a first gen ipod nano from 2005 to use in my car because playlists > usb drive folders. I don't like their layouts, I don't like a lot of their limitations, I don't like the arrogant attitude of the company, I don't like that everything they make is proprietary and expensive, I don't like the over-simplification of their devices, and mostly, I don't like the "this is how we say it should be, shut up and like it" philosophy they seem to carry every year and with every new device. If you live in the iUniverse with all the other connected devices, they make sense. They don't make sense to me whatsoever. But that's just my opinion. I've had Android phones for almost four years and a Blackberry before that. I value efficiency and versatility over style and flair.
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