If you're cool with stock KitKat with added apps that will eventually be copied by others, check out the moto x. I know it has a rap for being underpowered, but this phone is easily the best smartphone I've had yet. If my X breaks tomorrow, I'm buying another one at motomaker.com within the hour.
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The only Android SmartPhones I've had are the:
- Motorola DROID (OG)
- Motorola Droid BIONIC (current)
I got the OG b/c it was Android 2.0, and vanilla - and I learned all sorts of things about ROMs, kernels, etc. on that phone. Bought it the day it came out.
I got the BIONIC b/c, at the time, it was the best Moto phone out there, plus they had gone back and developed there own LTE chip in-house, and if there is one thing that Moto has always had a pretty decent track record, it was in their chip manufacturing, all the LTE growing pains with VZW notwithstanding. Also bought on the first day it was available.
I'm much more likely to stick with Moto than try another manufacturer, and I followed really closely the development of the X last year at DroidRZR forums, but I did not (and still do nto) have the money to buy it outright - and I refuse to sign over my VZW unlimited data by buying subsidized, and I am still reading threads and posts where talking to VZW customer service is still allowing some people to keep unlimited, although most of those threads have gone dry....
I need battery life and power first and foremost, though, b/c I like to install a ton of apps that keep me connected online even when I am not at home. And so when I know I am going to have money the real search will begin, but you can bet the X will still be a contender. Just trying to decide if the G will also.
But all of that is moot for now b/c I think I want a new tablet first. My phone works perfectly fine, but my tablet is horrendously slow. I've never gotten the level of performance even on cROMi like everyone else has, and it effectively pisses me off that I might have a truly defective tablet.
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Moto X comes in Dev edition, too. Anyway, just my 2 pennies worth. Have fun picking a new phone, @johnlgalt !
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Uh, yes, lol, I know this as well. but gotta research tablets first. The same issues that are deal breakers for jtrosky are for me as well. I don't want a tablet that I have to enable BT on to use a KB, which not only does not charge the tablet but drains it faster b/c BT is enabled and being used....
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