What don't you like about the gs4?
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Laggy in comparison to Moto X or Nexus 7 (which I also own).
Capacitive button layout drove me nuts. Not only are they not very responsive, you don't even know when Menu is actually available. I mean, with SW keys, you see the menu stacked dots icon. With a HW button it's always there even if there's no such option... So you end up pressing it with no result. The layout is also backwards from pure android.
Google Now swipe up activation just isn't possible. You can install some launcher but you have to swipe from a different GUI spot than pure android.
Build quality very poor. The back cover has a spider web crack and I've had this phone in a case since minute 1. Glossy exterior means you gotta have a case if you want a good resale value (scratches easy). Case = bigger phone. Cheap looking front with those dots under the glass. GS3 was much classier.
Touch Wiz is a nightmare. You plug in headphones and it brings up this useless row of icons in notification. And also adds a duplicate headphone icon in the task bar. To this day I'm not used to the Settings screen, which was dissected into separate tabs that don't really organize anything... Just make it harder to find stuff. All the duplicate Samsung bloat that Google already has. Except the camera app, everything else is junk. The redesign of entire OS was just unnecessary and tacky.
To be honest, I bought GS4 just to get by (had DroidX before that) and I was hoping to at least flash it at some point with GPe (and enable Nexus SW buttons) but being on Verizon kina makes it PITA (and rom has bugs) so I just don't see the point when there's a great phone like moto X.
Edit:
- when you wake up GS4, there's like a half a second delay to update the clock. Very ugly and unprofessional.
-no SMS text in notification preview.
-don't know why but entering a name in phone book search our email search stopped auto searching for auto complete (this is very recent)