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#87
wellllll....
I have been mucking about with my latest acquisition ..a nexus 5...
As far as what I think of it...
Def. one of the better smartphones I have had in my hands (no compare to the nxx0's of course...) ..
I have virtually no additional apps installed.
Updated to droid 5.1
rooted of course..
crap bloat I would never use I have uninstalled back to the stock apps...cleared the caches...
and only 3 things I do NOT like...
1- it's running android.
2- it's running android ....nono...actually ..I do NOT like the fact it has no sd card slot. ...sure I can do usb storage on the go ...but crap sticking out of a phone dangling around like some ganglia doesn't impress me .
and hence ...with no sd slot..so goes options to move apps to sd card with it.
3- the result of #2...is that 16 gb is all fine and dandy to have..internally..
but to have 2 gb of ram of which 1.5+ gb is consumed by the system and stock and a couple apps...does NOT impress me at all...
what a colossal waste.

Wicket hope you can get Leste workin' on your nexus 5...
Reason I got mine was it is one of the few devices open enough to do some experimenting with alt. os's (which obviously is why wicket got his)
Hope it works man...
Otherwise I will go down the plasma road...
I am not keen on SF...
there is just too much goin' on there politically that I do not run with..
let alone the closed nature of their endeavor.
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1-n770 (in retirement), 3-n800's / 3-n810's (still in daily use), 5-n900's ((3 are flawless, 1 loose usb ( parts), 1 has no telephony (parts))
3-nexus 5's : 1 w/ Floko Pie 9.1 (running beautifully) waiting for Stable Droid 10 rom, 1 w/ ̶Ubuntu Touch, 1 with Maru OS (intend maemo leste when ready)

1/2 - neo900 pre- "purchased" in 2013. N̶o̶w̶ ̶A̶w̶a̶i̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶r̶e̶f̶u̶n̶d̶ ̶p̶r̶o̶c̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶l̶a̶s̶t̶ ̶f̶e̶w̶ ̶y̶e̶a̶r̶s̶ - neo900 start up declared officially dead -
Lost invested funds.


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