The Nexus phones were the only ones that shipped pure android without a lot of OEM crapware installed you couldn't remove (Samsung's "Touchwiz"). That was anot

The Nexus phones were the only ones that shipped pure android without a lot of OEM crapware installed you couldn't remove (Samsung's "Touchwiz"). That was another thing at the time which pushed me away from android, they didn't have control over their OS because of this lack of control over hardware. It was a little like Windows and all the crap that came installed on it, except worse because you couldn't even reset it.