I moved over to Android around a year and a half ago after refusing to pay the extortionate amount that Apple wanted for the latest at the time iPhone. I loved my iPhone 3G and have to admit I was slightly disappointed at the initial performance of the Huawei G300 with its Bloated Gingerbread OS. Once my co-writer and at the time Android advisor had rooted and upgraded it to ICS it was more than I ever thought it could be and began to wonder why anyone would bother paying so much for the iPhone.
The next phone was another Huawei, the new Ascend G510, A fantastic looking phone with a lot of promise that was ruined completely by a bloatware filled Jellybean install that drove me mad within 2 weeks and took up so much space of the 4gb internal memory that I couldn't even put all my apps on the thing! That lead to its sale on eBay.
The thing that bugs me is that the Android experience is so different device to device that it is too easy to be put off by a buggy or bloated OS. Its now getting to the point where you almost need to buy the most expensive phone to get a good experience straight out of the box like you need to with Apple.
My housemate has just bought an iPhone 3G of eBay as he tried Android but fell victim to a bloated OS and despite my offers to root and upgrade it he had been put off for good. My sister has a Galaxy S3 and when she asked me to help her out with a WIFI issue I had to say I have no idea as I cant get my head around the Ui it was running!
What I want is a vanilla button. A stock standard Ui and ROM option that you could switch between at will. I had seen a few rumours that this was going to be available on 4.3 but I didn't hold onto that hope. Had this been available on the G510 I would still have it now, my housemate wouldn't have bought an out of date and still expensive iPhone and my sister would have had WIFI at my house.
I know that the idea with Android is that it is open source and anyone can develop it but there should be a point where someone steps in and says "STAHP!" I am not saying that the updates should come from one central source like iOS and Windows but some sort of agreement if you like that limits the bloatware phone manufacturers shove into the ROM. Unifying Android over all devices would destroy the whole idea of the OS but every manufacturer has to start with a base version of Android so why can they not make available to us the consumers this option??
Moan over, thanks for reading and always please +1, Like or Tweet!
