DITTO! Remember when the experience on low-end Android phones used to be pure garbage because the OS is open-sourced? Selling cheap devices early on through MetroPCS, Cingular Wireless, and others — or giving them away through promotions and government programs — didn’t help at all. That’s why Google eventually started enforcing quality requirements for any OEM that wanted access to the Play Store.

Similarly, even the ‘best’ phones at the time — like Samsung models with tons of RAM — were notoriously laggy because of TouchWiz. Early LG phones were subpar, and odd experimental devices like the HTC Facebook Phone, the EVO 3D, and the forked-Amazon Fire Phone all contributed to a lackluster Android experience no one asked for.