You can't compare the two. Samsung may be making the hardware for this nexus phone, but it's 100% under google's control, samsung doesn't even have a hand in the software process. If you don't like samsung, (which I understand, a lot of people don't) then don't buy their regular phones (gs2, etc). Not buying a nexus phone because you don't like samsung, that's a bit pointless. Nexus phones, google tells the people who are lucky enough to get to make it, what hardware and software goes on it. Samsung has NO say. Software updates come from google, not the carriers, and certainly not samsung.