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I think what you ran into was the problems of getting a Samsung phone rather than Android. Full size S4's (I assume mini's are similar) come with 7+ GB of softw

I think what you ran into was the problems of getting a Samsung phone rather than Android. Full size S4's (I assume mini's are similar) come with 7+ GB of software on top of Google's Android. If you got it from a carrier there may be more. Samsung provides it's own version of everything, on top of the default apps. So what you get is: * AOSP, OS and Open Source default apps. * Google Play stuff. Google requires devices with Google Play store to also include all Google apps. (Eg Gmail) * Samsung's apps. Samsung provides apps and includes all of them on full feature phones. Along with the Samsung phones. If you try a Nexus 4 or a MotoG you will get something much closer to what should be on Android no Samsung bloated package.

achompas 13y ago
Just got my brother a Nexus 5 for the holidays. Even those are bloated. Example: the SMS app is actually Google+ Hangouts. Had to dig for the AOSP SMS app. Another example: he complains about Google automatically uploading photos to a G+ account that he doesn't care about. Even "vanilla Android" is getting bloated. Why are users being forced into G+? Why is the default Android SMS app linked to a social network by default?
huxley 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman If you don't include Samsung, then you are ignoring the Android market leader.