Quote:I have a Nexus 5 and if you're going to root/unlock bootloader sticking with google will keep life easy (I had a Nexus 4 before also and it was very easy too root/unlock, if I remember correctly the GSM was unlocked out the box).  Cyanogen is probably my favorite rom when you go that route...which also gets updated regularly for Nexus phones. 

Do you have the 5, or the 5X? I almost sucked it up and bought a 5, and I kind of wish I had. And yeah, Cyanogen is a really nice, clean OS for the most part, although I've found myself using Sense-based ROMs on my M8 more and more.

 

Quote:I have an ASUS Zenfone 2, which I really like, but that only works on GSM carriers. A couple of my friends have Nexus phones and they seem to like them though.

I'm giving up on Verizon to some extent. Their CDMA network is making life miserable in terms of finding unlocked phones that will work with them. Sprint's network is a joke and T-Mo's is worse, which kind of leaves me right back on AT&T.

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