[Motorola Droid X2] litetaker:
True dat! But have ya seen Motorola's ICS skin? It is kinda like the default... Hmm.. wonder what they are upto.

I have come to the sad realization that every Android phone has some or the other shortcomings. I hear people dissing the Gnex too for call quality and other things. I have a transformer prime, which I hoped to be the best of the breed Android tablet. But it has its hiccups, random reboots, and rare UI stutters even with that mammoth Tegra 3! All I want is one manufacturer to make 1 device that is not lousy, and I bet they can if only they give it time. They are in a mad rush to populate the planet with Silicon chips and deplete our soils and lands of these resources.

(Now I am leaving off on a tangential rant)...

I wonder if people realize how big of an environmental impact this is causing. And it is true. Before people would live with an old computer as long as it works. Once it starts failing, they add more RAM, or upgrade the CPU etc. Then, once they can't suck any more life out of it, they buy a new one. Phones were hardly replaced in years. The good old phones lasted so long as if they were meant to survive a nuclear apocalypse, and they did what they were supposed to do.

Nowadays, the whole attitude is different. In one year, people throw away a perfectly working phone and buy a new one. Same with Tablets. I am guessing people are more reluctant to change their laptops that often, but they still do it way more often than they ought to. This is basically a marketing strategy, where the company that made the old product purposefully obsolete the product in a year and instill in the minds of people that what they have is garbage and it should be replaced with a fancier one, that for all intents and purposes is probably only marginally better. (Case in point, many of Apple's incremental updates. A more serious offender are the several Android Manufacturers who obsolete their products in a shorter time). Unfortunately, I am sucked into this unsustainable spiral myself.

Nevertheless, the rapid pace of development we have encountered nowadays has its benefits of speeding up the process of technological advancements, though I am still debating whether these advancements help benefit the humankind in anyway OR if all they do is fill the pockets of the various companies with dough and just leave the rest of us with a piling mound of hazardous, non biodegradable substances left thanks to the various chip fabrication plants and not to mention the products themselves. For instance, RIM has made stock piles of its playbook that flopped like there was no tomorrow. And now they are left with warehouses of unsold products. There are no customers for this product. Recently a professor I know went to a conference and all the attendees there got a free playbook. At first, Blackberry tried to sell them to them, but when the interest was not high, they just decided to offload the product onto people. You may think it is great that they got a free product. But I say it is a substandard product and a worthless waste of valuable resources that will take huge deal of effort to recycle and not to mention the waste... Remember how Apple dumped its failed product "Lisa" into landfills??? What a waste of silicon, metal, gold and other semiconductors... And imagine the wasteful processing of those stuff from mines!

Back from my tangential rant

So as I was saying, I am convinced that I will probably never get a properly working Android device. Unless Android device Manufacturers take a page from Apple and cut down their device portfolio dramatically, all the various devices we see will be half assed as there is no way in hell one company can oversee the production of so many devices and ensure the quality of the products. And so, even if I go for HTC or Sammy instead of Motorola, I believe I will get the same old, same old. (I have had problems with Asus TFP).. And so, often times I think to myself, I probably should have gone with Apple's iPad... But it is a love/hate relationship with Android, in that I love the vast freedom and customizability of Android compared to Apple but I envy Apple's more solid and robust platform. And in the middle, I feel that by releasing just one product per year, not only does Apple have more ability to perfect it, but it also helps, compared to Android Manufacturers, with being a little lighter on the environmental resources. Though I am not saying what they are doing is sustainable either, and we are all doomed anyway.

Whoa!!! I meant to type one thing. And I said something else. Somebody needs to read this back to me to make sense of it and remind me the original point I was trying to make... I guess the point is, everything sucks anyway, it is a matter of which sucks the least. And all that we do is a big waste of resources anyway and before I make total nonsense, I will stop right here

P.S: Here is an interesting tidbit. I should be doing my work. I am very, very bad at managing my time!! Damn me! I wasted about 30 mins typing that!! :o I never listen to myself when I tell to cut back on the time wasters! I need help. Okay, this is enough! :p