Flashback: a look back at the "pure Android" Google Play Edition phones and why they failed
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- Dometalican
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- 10 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 10 Oct 2021You have an ugly taste and choices that million disagree.Alright dude. Opinion ≠ Facts
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- Anonymous
- mXr
- 10 Oct 2021
Dometalican, 10 Oct 2021That's like, your opinion man. Lol. I loved my HTC one... moreYou have an ugly taste and choices that million disagree.
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- Anonymous
- 7kp
- 10 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 10 Oct 2021HTC one was the ugliest metal designed phone at the time. True.
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- Anonymous
- 7kp
- 10 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 10 Oct 2021There is no issue with custom ui. It's the bloatware a... moreSamsung doesn't bake ads in their os. They have ads in few of their stock apps just like ios. Now they have removed ads. Only company which bakes ads in the software is xiaomi.
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- Anonymous
- XBa
- 10 Oct 2021
Can we get these flashbacks in video format??? It would be totally exciting
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- Hotkolbas
- 7sp
- 10 Oct 2021
It’s funny that everyone wants stock Android but honestly I’d bet that they would just install a third party launcher and customise the hell out of it anyway.
Back then manufactures launchers and other software are a small portion of limited space. These days given the standard average rom size it doesn’t take up too much realestate now, and also they have become quite good. I actually like realme UI and also touch wiz.
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- Anonymous
- K5W
- 10 Oct 2021
Own nexus & xperia z
Same chpset
And also mi a1
Back in that day
Plain google were sucks.
The non google battery life is way better than Google's.
Google battery management is not as good as non google Android
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- Dometalican
- sgP
- 10 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 10 Oct 2021HTC one was the ugliest metal designed phone at the time. That's like, your opinion man. Lol. I loved my HTC one M8 and I'd love that design to make a return one day.
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- vGE
- 10 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 10 Oct 2021HTC one was the ugliest metal designed phone at the time. The HTC One was and still is one of the best looking metal designs and perhaps everyone here can agree.
It stood apart from hundreds of metal phones of the time and even to this day it is a truly beautiful design. HTC should really revive the original One or the mini and that will give the Android industry an iPhone SE rival and also a proper compact phone
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- AnonD-1014095
- mXr
- 10 Oct 2021
7hh, 10 Oct 2021Stock android is meaningless nowadays. Most manufacturers d... moreSamsung note series and s series is bloated with features, doesn't matter it has 12 and 16gb ram too look after it.
So I belive you Mercedes sl500 top off the range car has no features but plain like buying a cheap c180 Mercedes and paying £80K, LMFAOOOOO.e
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- AnonD-1014095
- mXr
- 10 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 10 Oct 2021The closest anyone will get to using pure Android is to fla... moreIt's much better too have 16gb ram do no matter how many apps and heavy skin you use won't slow or lag, due too having lots off free memory ram.
The S21ultra with 16gb Ram is hard-core phone no matter even abused.
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- AnonD-1014095
- mXr
- 10 Oct 2021
Anonymous, 10 Oct 2021HTC one was the ugliest metal designed phone at the time. True, the curved wobbling back .unstable, when it was meant too be flat design.
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- Anonymous
- iA4
- 10 Oct 2021
rizki1, 10 Oct 2021All of these brand is not so popular in the market and they... moreMemeUI :)
It definitely helped push a lot of users to stock Android, or "skins" that didn't tamper much but added useful features (ZenUI, Oxygen/ColorOS etc.)
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- Stock FTW
- Kir
- 10 Oct 2021
I like stock or stock-like not because it's better but for consistency. It's nice that custom UI/skin nowadays are considerably lighter than they used to be.
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- Anonymous
- 39x
- 10 Oct 2021
HTC one was the ugliest metal designed phone at the time.
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- Dudenoway
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- 10 Oct 2021
RealLifePhones, 10 Oct 2021The lack of features and the extremely ugly UI always made ... moreExactly
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- RealLifePhones
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- 10 Oct 2021
The lack of features and the extremely ugly UI always made me wonder why every comment section wanted stock android like it would solve anything
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- Anonymous
- LkA
- 10 Oct 2021
Looks like xiaomi is only chinese that does not call the UI as OS.
I bet all this is because iOS, LOL ...
OriginOS is the worst UI I have seen so far.
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- Anonymous
- AJj
- 10 Oct 2021
rizki1, 10 Oct 2021All of these brand is not so popular in the market and they... moreThere is no issue with custom ui. It's the bloatware and ads baked in to OS like Xiaomi and Samsung.
That's why only iPhone and Google pixel are my top choice.
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- AnonD-1014095
- mXr
- 10 Oct 2021
Sexy rectangular boxy sony, all other's were ugly.