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b_b  ·  3451 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The new Google Nexus family & Android Lollipop announced

    So $350 all in for an unlocked Android running cyanogenmod? Sure, I'll give it a try.

I'm no tech expert by any stretch of the imagination, but I threw down $350 for a Galaxy Nexus two years ago, which if you buy it directly from Google comes unlocked with no bloatware whatsoever. It was a great purchase. T-Mobile, at that time, was charging $60/mo for unlimited everything if you had an unlocked phone (I think they throttled your data after 2GB or something). Really can't beat that deal, if they still have it. I switched to iPhone when my company started footing the bill, because well, free is still better than $60/mo, even with strings attached. If I had to get my own phone again, I'd toss the iPhone 5 straight in the trash and go back to a Nexus any day.