Haven’t upgraded yet, but I like the fact that they fixed the handling of SD cards after breaking it in 4.4 (Kit Kat). I don’t use kloud-krap storage, so being able to get data on and off the phone via SD card is a much-have feature.

Better than KitKat but still far behind iOS and Windows in term of responsiveness.

[quote=spdrun]Run it on good hardware and it’s plenty responsive. Windows phone is a bad joke, iOS is slightly better.[/quote]I’m running it on the best chip on the market today. It’s still a joke. Project butter was a joke. If you consider animation stuttering, button press respond a second later is responsive, pressing home button takes a second or two to see the home screen, then another second or two for your icons to load in, etc. Now, that’s a bad joke. On either Windows or iOS, you’ll never see a button press taking more than a few hundred milliseconds to respond and transition animations are always buttery smooth. You don’t see frame rate drop during transition animation like Android.

FYI, 512MB-1GB devices with processors from 2 years ago running iOS and Windows are A LOT smoother than 2GB Android devices running the latest and greatest processor. Try and run Android on a Snapdragon S4 with 512MB Ram and tell me it’s plenty responsive.

[quote=UCGal]I’ve had lollipop running on my nexus 5. I like it a lot.

My old phone was an ancient nexus S that was super memory limited (couldn’t update google without clearing the cache of EVERY application, otherwise I’d get memory errors.)

I bought the nexus 5 so I can use it on my carrier here (sprint network) and use it in Europe on GSM.[/quote]

It’s my favorite device of choice right now.

[quote=evolusd][quote=AN][quote=spdrun]Run it on good hardware and it’s plenty responsive. Windows phone is a bad joke, iOS is slightly better.[/quote]I’m running it on the best chip on the market today. It’s still a joke. Project butter was a joke. If you consider animation stuttering, button press respond a second later is responsive, pressing home button takes a second or two to see the home screen, then another second or two for your icons to load in, etc. Now, that’s a bad joke. On either Windows or iOS, you’ll never see a button press taking more than a few hundred milliseconds to respond and transition animations are always buttery smooth. You don’t see frame rate drop during transition animation like Android.

FYI, 512MB-1GB devices with processors from 2 years ago running iOS and Windows are A LOT smoother than 2GB Android devices running the latest and greatest processor. Try and run Android on a Snapdragon S4 with 512MB Ram and tell me it’s plenty responsive.[/quote]

Am thinking of upgrading from iPhone 5 to LG G3, but this is my main concern. I appreciate fluidity (and more importantly, the stability) of iOS, but am terribly bored after years of iphone.[/quote]

Unless you plan on sticking with the Nexus branded lines of phones, be prepared for limited O/S upgrade support from the OEM’s. They are too busying trying to sell you a new model instead of spending type trying to update their old phones to the latest O/S version like lollipop.

Nexus phones however will be supported by Google.

[quote=evolusd]
Am thinking of upgrading from iPhone 5 to LG G3, but this is my main concern. I appreciate fluidity (and more importantly, the stability) of iOS, but am terribly bored after years of iphone.[/quote]
If you appreciate fluidity, I sincerely advise against android. Some people think Android is fluid enough, but even the fastest Android phone will not match the fluidity of iOS and Windows. It’s just the way it is. If you’re bored and want to try something different yet still have the fluidity, I would suggest you check out Windows Phone. It is fluid and stable.

It really depends on which app you use. But in general you’re correct, Windows phone only have about 300k apps while Android and IOS have about 1m. But I have all the apps I need and use. So total amount of apps doesn’t matter to me. Obviously, if you want the latest and greatest app first, then iOS is your top option. You can go to the Windows phone market place website and see if the shop you need are available.