[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Ophois:
Look at Gingerbread. Then look at Sense 3.0.

Look at Gingerbread again. Then look at Touchwiz 4.0.

Gingerbread is boring and bland now compared to the skins.

ICS looks beautiful because it is an entirely new skin that is not custom.

I'm sure that the vendors will not turn it into a bland boring rehash of what the last version was (On their new devices...You won't see Sense 4.0 on an older device save for the ports...Neither will we see Touchwiz 5.0 before the GSIII drops)

If you don't like it, fine. You're here. You can root. Do the masses really care? No. They can still switch many other things that you cannot switch on an iPhone.

Don't like touchwiz? Use one of the many launchers in the market. There's themes for them that even change the icons.

Plus many of the skins that hardware vendors put on the phones also add features that stock android does not have. ICS Still does not have smart dialing which IIRC Sense 1.0 had.

That's one feature.

My E4GT came with a file manager. That should be built into android along with Smart Dialing, Theme support and a whole host of features that Android lacks.

Personally I love android because of the degree in which I can customize it

I love it because of the massive amount of choice I have in devices. I don't like the aspect ratio of one phone? I get one that I'll like.

Personally the E4GT is the perfect size for my gigantic hands. An iPhone does not fit comfortably in them. I feel like I'm going to break the thing.

I like sprint, They have problems but what company doesn't?

The more people that flock to verizon, the more people are on their network and bogging it down. That just makes Sprint's network a bit faster every time a person leaves them. Then the complaints stop and the complaints begin on Verizon and people flip back to another carrier, happily paying their ETF's

Sprint'll make money from you leaving them and you'll get the device you apparently are in love with. It's a win/win.

I'd like to see that $1k go toward their network vision and keep unlimited data.

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This whole "It's awesome because it doesn't have a custom skin" argument is, at least in my opinion; Entirely irrelevant here.

Chances say that if you're on this website you are rooted and any major bloat that the UI's give can be uninstalled. There's plenty of sense-based ROMS without sense out there. Touchwiz doesn't even take up that much space and it doesn't force you to use its launcher to use its widgets.

It's even got hardware acceleration.

The only argument about stock android being relevant is if you're arguing for out-of-the-box stock. I find that rather boring. I like to get my phone one way and make it a different way. It's fun being able to run things that aren't intended for the devices. I.E. Sense 3.x on the OG Evo.

Honestly for the phone that will be the face of Android for a year, the Galaxy Nexus is rather weak. In my opinion the developer phones should utterly shatter what is out at the time. They should be a gigantic upgrade over any and all phone hardware that is out at the time.

There's even a technical reason for this: Release something mind-blowing like (at the moment) Quad-core so that the developers can acquire said device and code the applications that would have a reason to use it all, to use it all.

The face of android should be what sets the standard for all devices to come. I do not like the new face. Onscreen buttons is a mistake in my opinion.

I'd rather sacrifice .3in of screen real estate for capacitive buttons than have a dark bar on the bottom of my screen all of the time that does nothing but display three buttons.

The face of 2010 was the Evo4g.

The face of 2011 is seemingly either the Nexus or the GSII Line.

I'm excited for what will be 2012's Galaxy, Evo and Nexus phones as I am sure the entire android community is.