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Method of Madness:
Anyone have a phone running Android? What type of phone do you have, and what flavor is it running?

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note running Jelly Bean (4.1.2) via CyanogenMod 10.

nekowafer:
I have a Droid X2 with Honeycomb 2.3.5. I also own an Acer A500 with ICS 4.0.3.

LTK:
Ooh, CyanogenMod. Do you have a stable release or something more experimental? How's it work compared to a stable release?

As you're probably aware, I have a Google Galaxy Nexus on Jelly Bean 4.1.1, on the standard operating system. I tried the latest MIUI release, and even though I really liked the features, its interface was overhauled a bit too drastically for my taste, and it was waaay slower than stock Jelly Bean. I got the impression that JB is also snappier than ICS, but I haven't switched between the two since updating so I can't really compare. That's also why I haven't tried CM yet, because the latest stable release is of 9.1.0, and I wasn't comfortable with installing an incomplete version. So I'm compromising with stock JB and a custom launcher: first ADW Launcher, and then GO Launcher, which has some really great features.

Any suggestions for applications? I once saw someone with a weather application that showed the chance of rain in a histogram based on their current location, and I'd like to get that. For the rest, there seem to be astonishingly few applications on Google Play that aren't completely superfluous or simply time-wasters. I could use some things that make this smartphone less dumb. Like the swiss army knife, I like that one.

Method of Madness:
I don't think I'd go with CM if I had a Nexus, since it's just pure Android. I was sick of Touchwiz, and finally went for CM10 the other day. What's cool is in addition to nightly builds, they have monthly builds, which are considerably more stable. I haven't had any issues, and really like it so far.  There's also the fact that without CM, I'd still have ICS for quite some time.  I liked ICS since I got it in April (thanks to a leak of the official ICS that gave it to me three months before AT&T pushed it out), but I wanted to try JB and this seemed the best way to do so.

Ultimately, though, what made me finally decide to take the plunge into CM? I can now go into the About Phone menu and upgrade from there. You don't have to flash the new build, it's as simple as official upgrades...well, I'd think.  I never actually had an official upgrade.

LTK:
Hah, me neither! My carrier also wasn't bothered to upgrade mine, so I just pulled the factory ROM off the internet and flashed it. Depending on your model, you could probably do the same. I noticed the monthly builds as well, I see they just added a second one, so I'll probably go try that. Their feature list looks very impressive, I hope it's mostly complete in the most recent version.

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