[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Gene_Bailey:
I took the time to read through that thread you linked (link was broken from my phone though :-\ ) and wow, like I said, because its a forum people will talk like they weren't raised with manners.

I guess what I'm saying, for me personally, as someone who has used and owned well over 2 dozen android devices is that I owned the Galaxy S II. I had the Sprint one. Coincidentally, I also have the EVO 3D. And I owned the Droid X and X 2. I've had much much experience with these skins because, honestly, when you buy a phone on day one, AOSP is realistically months away. I used to hate Sense. Still do, actually, to a degree. But Myn's Warm Rom TwoPointThree changed my belief in it being awful. Same with touchwiz. I actually really really dislike TouchWiz. Remember when I told you to try MIUI because touchwiz is essentially becoming a near direct rip off? One of the things I love about MIUI but dislike about Touchwiz is the icons. Same boxed in style and what not, but MIUI.. I can pull it out in front of a customer or my boss and not feel like I'm showing them something designed for kids. And that's with the stock theme. But! There are hundreds of themes for MIUI and not one single one for touchwiz. Dislike the lock screen? Push a button and change it. Don't like the boot animation? Push a button and change it! Don't like the icons? Or the font? Same step! You're not even limited to one theme, you pick and choose your favorite elements.

But I'm getting sidetracked. Motoblur is not a good experience. The only passable one was the Razr's not called blur interface. And even then, it slowed down a bit. And by a bit, I mean if you hold down the home button, they actually transition to a completely different page for your all switcher and it lags like crazy when you have multiple apps open. Just one thing I didn't like but that same lag is inherent everywhere through out the UI.

Every phone I've had, I've always put AOSP on it. Usually MIUI or CM9. The reason being is that AOSP is inherently not as resource intensive as Sense or TouchWiz or Blur. They aren't just skins anymore, true, but that's half the problem. HTC will take its Sense software and literally ram it down Androids throat. Replacing so much of Android with sense that the two barely resemble each other at the system level. Touchwiz is getting better, but its still essentially doing the same thing.

Now.. the real reason as to why an OEM skin most likely won't appear for a long time is actually the SAME reason AOSP takes a few months to appear on phones like the Rezound or the SGSII or the Razr. Drivers. Kernels. Etc etc. Regardless of the fact that the SGSII has its own ICS leak out, its hardware drivers and its underlying software are not compatible with the GN. A developer would have to spend a whole lot of time not porting those drivers, but essentially creating all new ones specifically for our camera, and for our processor, and for our screen. Not to mention for the NFC chip, the barometer, our Wifi and GPS and Cellular radios.

I'm not against options. Chances are I would give it a go should such a thing come to light before going back to MIUI. But its a huge undertaking. And unless one of the devs here reeeeeeally loves Touchwiz, he or she probably won't make it. The time spent on a project he or she isn't going to get paid for would be monumental. Especially if they probably won't be using it anyways.

Please don't take me for someone who is all GO AOSP and DOWN WITH OEMS!!!! Because while I am like that (lmao) I actually am not against choices. That's what makes Android so damn great in the first place, right? But I'm just trying to explain to you the basics of the behind the scenes with this. And, also trying to show you a decent alternative that you might just enjoy more. If you were to compare your MIUI Galaxy Nexus against a SGSII running touchwiz, I'm sure he would be looking at what you phone can do, natively, at Androids System level without any UI crammed in there and made to fit, and would likely be jealous. Just the texting app alone is amazing. The dialer is thoughtfully laid out, the contacts have that swipe to call or text feature someone mentioned in the other thread (they had it first actually) and their camera tech is actually quite impressive. You really should give it a try. If not for the sole sake of comparing it with your friends SGSII.