A battle weary mobile veteran on the Samsung Galaxy 2

The software I’m less keen on, and I think the root cause here is the ease which which OEMs and operators can customise Android. It seems to allow the mobile industry to more easily commit the same crimes which left room for iPhone to succeed: exposing internal politics as end-user choices, bundling unnecessary or unreliable products, and reskinning the product to follow brand guidelines at the expense of usability.

Tom Hume – although I’ll flag up it was an Orange branded version, which everyone in the UK knows is going to have more crapware on it than any other network.