[sorbe88]

My first and only android phone is a Nexus One, which I'm still running. Once the Nexus S came out, and Cyanogen beat Google to a Gingerbread ROM for the Nexus One, I rooted and have been running Cyanogen ever since. My poor old Nexus is starting to reach the end of its life (as I run A2SD-EXT Darktremor due to the tiny internal memory so I'm experiencing pretty serious slowdown).

I had been extremely tempted by the Galaxy Nexus as I love the Vanilla flavour of android. But it just occured to me, if I get a phone likely to be strongly supported by the developer community (especially Cyanogen as its my ROM of choice), is it really necessary to get a dev phone?!

What are the community's thoughts on this? I also read that potentially ICS will lead manufacturers to drop their custom skins. You think there's any truth in this? I mean, I can see the benefits of Sense, but Blur and TouchWiz seem to detract from the experience for me.

So my question is, for a lover of Vanilla/CyanogenMod, is there a big enough benefit from a Nexus device, or would I be equally happy with a rooted and well developer supported phone?

Thanks!

[Moscow Desire]

Tickled pink with my HTC Desire and CM7.

I always look for developer support before I buy any device (root and rom).

[baseballfanz]

you know the CyanogenMod team helped work on ICS.
wouldn't be surprise if N1 get ics. my n1 with a2sd and cm7 not lagging at all.
Do you run data on sd-ext also?
what class is your sd card?

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