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elros34, Photon Q has Android which is a stopper for me. I forgot to mention that I returned to n950 not only because of the device size but also because of impossibility to control the Android device.

Have you ever tried using an Android phone? It's something like this:
- you turn off automatic OS updates,
- and automatic refresh of Google Play store repository,
- and automatic updates of Google Maps,
- and automatic everything in any way related to internet connectivity,
but at the very same moment as you connect to Wi-Fi or GPRS you check the running applications list and you see:
- System update running,
- Google Play store running,
- Google Maps running,
- and also Settings and Gallery running (WTF these ones want in the internet?!)

I have used two different Android phones from different brands and it was the same situation on both devices. So no more Android in my life

Comparing mobile OSes to Linux distros, Android is like using Ubuntu - the OS owns your device, not you. Surely you can (possibly) obtain the full control over the system but you need a lot of hacking to do so. Thus I prefer Maemo/Meego which is like using Arch - much less user friendly, but you own your device, and OS requires much less hacking to get the full rights.
 

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