Continued Experience with Android OS

So after three months of using my Motorola X Pure Edition, I fell in love with the not so bloated version of Android Marshmallow (6.0.1).  But the sad news was I had to end up returning the Motorola X Pure Edition due to security issues with Lenovo and they now own Motorola's mobile side of the house.

With that said I was surprised BestBuy took back the phone with no issues.  So I was left looking for a new smartphone and I wanted another Android platform.  So after some intense research I found the ZTE AXON 7.  This phone comes with the Snapdragon 820 CPU and the Adreno 530 GPU.  It also supports dual sim and a MicroSD card up to 128GB.  Although it has two sim trays it does not support CDMA networks currently.  It does have the radio chipset to do so but it is not enabled.

So first impressions after a few weeks with this phone now is that it is amazing.  You get all this value for $400 unlocked by the way.  Just an incredible value for a smartphone.

I already have Android Nougat (7.0) installed and it runs like a champ and yes it supports DayDream which I will discuss further in another blog.

This is an incredible smartphone and Android experience......

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.