His comments about his previous phone, the LG G3, are interesting to me. That happens to be the phone I have, and I think it works great. I&#x27;m using a stock-based ROM (rooted, of course, with TWRP), performance is excellent, very little bloat, and the battery easily lasts me the day, even when I play a little GTA:SA, watch some YT&#x2F;Twitch, do some video calling with Hangouts, and Chromecast some Dora The Explorer for my kid. I use Viper4Android to do DSP on Spotify and get some pretty nice sound out of my $10 earbuds. I&#x27;m not on Facebook, and one of my New Year&#x27;s resolutions was to stop reading the news[1] and using Twitter and Reddit, so that&#x27;s probably saving me loads of battery.<p>As far as expense, yes, it&#x27;s more than $129, but it&#x27;s currently being pushed heavily by MVNOs where I live as a $0 budget phone ($400 in subsidy). Currently flagships from Apple, Samsung, etc are in the $850-1100 range. IMHO the G3 is a perfectly serviceable mid-range phone.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaronsw.com&#x2F;weblog&#x2F;hatethenews" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aaronsw.com&#x2F;weblog&#x2F;hatethenews</a>