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Drnick:
I guess it's like A Google Experience device which is

A product that is backed by Google but manufactured by another company. For example, the Motorola Xoom tablet is made by Motorola, but it has pure Google Android operating system installed with no extra fluff and applications that you cannot easily get rid of.

Google simply does not have the manufacturing resources to manufacture the products themselves, so Google "outsources" the manufacturing to companies with the explicit contract not to add any fluff-ware.

Google Experience Device = Pure Android, 100% Google.

Although Harrison ford had a different kind of Nexus experience  :laugh2:

sandheaver:
Is anyone else kind of blown away that the unmolested, "as the vendor intended" experience is so hard to come by?  It says a lot about telephone company motivation; those apps they install to "help" you only spy on you, and they do it even when they are disabled.  Probably why I've never once seen a Nexus device in a store; they want to spy on you, they want to collect marketing information and sell it, and if they carry Nexus devices they can't, so they don't.

Yes, I know you can buy them from Google directly, and yes, I know you can use regular cell phone carriers with it.  What I'm saying is that ATT & Verizon won't sell Nexus devices, or will only sell them as low-end refurbished devices few desire because it would openly allow a customer to have a good phone and avoid all the shovelware/spyware "value-add" malarkey they shovel on top.

Hoopz:
I walked into my Verizon store and purchased my Samsung Nexus.  It only works on their network and they sell it online also.

With Google's purchase of Motorola, the hope is that they'll start manufacturing more Nexus devices.  However, I did read that it would take 12-18 months to get Motorola's items that were/are in production out of the way and bring more Google branded items to the market. 

sandheaver:

--- Quote from: Hoopz on May 09, 2013, 08:30:41 am ---I walked into my Verizon store and purchased my Samsung Nexus.  It only works on their network and they sell it online also.

With Google's purchase of Motorola, the hope is that they'll start manufacturing more Nexus devices.  However, I did read that it would take 12-18 months to get Motorola's items that were/are in production out of the way and bring more Google branded items to the market.

--- End quote ---

Things have changed then.  I checked Verizon's online store before I posted what I posted earlier, and they only had low-end refurbished Nexus devices in my area.

Doesn't matter to me.  Android is an insecure OS where little apps can live on after you've exited them and do lots of things.  The ONLY reason I would ever switch back to Android would be to use on{x}.  I'd like to automate the heck out of my phone, and I can't quite do it on Windows Phone yet.

eds1275:
I've had the HTC One X+ for about 3 weeks now. I opted against the apple stuff for various reasons, and am really happy with the andoid operating system. I mainly use it for talking and texting but have found a few nice apps that help me out in my day to day life and work (that I'm sure are available on the other platforms, or equivalent software.) It has a lot of software that you can't really uninstall such as twitter and the like however you can hide that stuff so it doesn't come up on your app list. It also came with a buttlload of bloatware, as I'm sure they all do.


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