Android-based mobile device recommendations?

Blaise Alleyne at 2015-06-10T02:58:53Z

My wife's Nexus 4 has been having a ton of problems over the past couple weeks. Some hardware, some maybe software, but we're looking at a new mobile computer as an option... but I haven't been paying attention to or looking at Android-based computers for a couple years...

Recommendations for a relatively friendly and decent Android-based computer? She won't be running Replicant, but I may be able to set her up with CyanogenMod (or other recommendations?) this time around.

Hardware specs wise, the Nexus 4 served her well except for the non-expandable 16 GB of storage.

(Also, we're WIND Mobile customers, so AWS frequency support is a must... same was T-Mobile in the US.)

Any advice appreciated!

Just moved to a Nexus 5. At $400, the price tag is still hefty, but it runs like a charm (CM11 or 12). The only issue IMO is the lack of an external SD card support.

Olivier Mehani at 2015-06-10T10:08:12Z

Blaise Alleyne likes this.

Interesting, thanks. At least it has more storage than the Nexus 4, but that lack of expandable storage is frustrating... I wonder if Google doesn't care much for it because they want you to be putting more things onto their servers or something...

Blaise Alleyne at 2015-06-10T19:42:25Z

That said,

cm11/device/lge/hammerhead ((remotes/github/cm-11.0))$ wc -l proprietary-blobs.txt
234 proprietary-blobs.txt

Ugh.

Olivier Mehani at 2015-06-11T00:17:46Z

Blaise Alleyne at 2015-06-11T04:16:23Z