After 5 Months of Heavy Usage with Android

Some of you might know I have been heavily using Android OS for the past 5 months now on an Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.  I loved the hardware but couldn't stand all the bloatware on the phone.  Most of the bloatware was from Samsung and it was difficult to defeat. 

So after 5 months of pain and frustration I made but yet another change, I will say it wasn't all negative.  I did however come to the conclusion in order for me to give Android OS a fair shake, I needed to try a more pure Google Android phone.  Well we all know there is the Google Nexus and now the Google Pixel phones out there, but with us trying to be debt free, who has $500 - $900 laying around.

So after doing some research I found the Motorola Moto X Pure Edition.  All I can say is that for $250 it is a great phone.  By the way that is $250 new from like BestBuy unlocked and is compatible with CDMA and GSM networks.  I was fortunate the Samsung S7 had great resale value so thanks to eBay I will make most of my investment back.

So only time will tell how great this phone is and my experience with Android OS.  I will say thus far, even with a slower CPU and 1GB less memory it is much more responsive than my S7 even after a fresh factory reset. 

Google is here to stay as part of my technology arsenal for now.  It is great to see awesome technology be affordable again.  Maybe it was always there and I was just not looking for it.

Samsung Apps for Android (WHY?)

So here is my verdict on Android after using it for personal use now for a few weeks.  If you use the native Google Apps, which there are many of on the Play Store; my experience has been the best on a smartphone next to iOS.  If you use any of the Samsung Apps, it is horrible....

Samsung has built proprietary apps and even have there own app store for there phones.  There apps are only designed to run on Android OS so why have your own store?  Well I will tell you why Samsung is attempting to pull an Apple.  Get you to love there apps which are only tied and usable on there phones.

Here is the deal why would I buy a Google Android OS phone and load Samsung Apps on it, that can't even touch the Google experience.

We are talking about from the keyboard, the launcher, the widgets, the texting app, the photos app, the health app, the music app, the web browser, etc... etc...

Google developed apps run much smoother on Android OS and that is the way it is intended to be.  I love Samsung's hardware especially this S7 Edge but the OS and Apps go to Google, hands down.  (Ravi)