Thread: Making the Nexus 4 an N9 in spirit
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Originally Posted by thedead1440 View Post
Nexus are always good for stock but honestly xda has a lot of custom ROMs etc so the Samsung Galaxy-series IMO is much better than the Nexus...

If you want to get a Droid, then go with a Samsung either S3 or Note1or2 due to the expandable storage, replaceable batteries and good developer support...

Even touchwiz for all the flak it gets is not 100% poor; it usually has full codec support and utilities that are really helpful... Until a few days ago I was using the leaked S3-JB touchwiz ROM on my S2 and it was really usable and seamless unlike stock android where you need codecs etc
While the S3 is a great device, the 1GB RAM (actually 850-ish, rest is reserved) it packs is way too little.
TouchWiz is huge, it's not that effecient, if you flash a stock AOSP/AOKP/CyanogenMod (closest to Google stock) ROM, you'll be fine, else you'll be running out of memory a lot.

I'd suggest the EU LTE S3 (GT-i9305), but I don't think that'll be very popular on xda, so go for the Nexus 4 or the Note 2.

Or just get the i9305, it's a good way to get into development yourself.