Miss old games, get FPSE from Play store or any emu proggie. Plays your old games collection...

That is SOP in manufacturing world. There will always be first, second, third, fourth source even. To drive down component price, and also to prevent single source failures. The only company to buck this trend is Apple that tends to have single source for a lot of their components. But Apple suppliers have serious contractual obligations and serious monetary penalties if they deliver faulty parts, is late, or unable to supply in sufficient quantities.

I actually kinda like Samsung's notification drawer. I install Apex launcher to get rid of the TW launcher, root and titanium backup to freeze bloatware.

And I love smartstay

The 3G model was released in several selected markets only, Malaysia included. for the rest of EMEA and NA, they will only get the XZU when the LTE model is pushed out. Hence the lack of dev interest, because not many have got their device yet.

Sony and HTC have good products let down by poor marketing, user outreach and outright horrible after sales service.

Samsung and Apple did their marketing right, and their aftersales service and warranty service is top notch.

If I'm going to spend my hard earned money, all else being equal, of course I will go for good after sales service. It gives me peace of mind and extra value for my money.

HTC and Sony gives me the impression that once they have my money they don't care about me anymore.

Terribly lazy in this case is fine, as they leave a customer happy and satisfied. With our local Sony and HTC disties, they aren't lazy, they just don't seem to care. Weeks turn into months for simple repairs or replacements, countless excuses and no communication at all with the customer. Seldom return calls, if ever, and never bother to notify the customer on the status of their repairs. In the end, its Sony and HTC's fault for appointing these distributors that spoil their brand.

Blackberry dropped the ball on product innovation, thats why they're where they are today. They simply dropped out of the marathon. Not because of their customer service.

Sony has abandoned and orphaned a lot of phones in the past. Or at least the updates come super late. Like the Acro S just recently got 4.1.2 JB, now Google is already going to ship 4.4 KK

all of them too many models... sigh.

Rage lah. Ur money Sony already take. Waddafaq wanna care about you somemore?

Its just a prototype. Building 10k units is actually very small quantity for a preproduction run and most likely just beta hardware. Big companies like Samsung will build probably 100k to 200k as a real trial production run to exercise their mfg lines.