New life for my old phone

Last year I finally bit the bullet and rooted my galaxy note.  I've had two phones for what seems like forever, I don't really mind, but the note was getting really sluggish.

So I rooted and flashed aokp on it.  I didn't see that much of a difference at the time, even though it was nice to get Jelly Bean on it.

Fast forward to now and they released KitKat for the Note.  Now I see a *huge* difference in the phone's performance.  It's not like a new phone, but it is a lot snappier.  What a shame that AT&T and Samsung have abandoned a phone that isn't even 2 years old.

I'd resisted rooting it because I view the phone as a tool and need it to work 100% of the time.  Its why I have never bothered jailbreaking the iPhone or iPad, but the Note had gotten so bad I didn't really have a choice.  I even considered paying for an early upgrade.

The tough call is whether I want to upgrade.  AT&T doesn't sell phones with unlocked bootloaders so I can't flash a new phone, and don't want to have another phone go obsolete in 15 months, so I'll probably have to get the Nexus.  I've gotten pretty used to having a mostly vanilla android phone and going back to touch-wiz, or whatever samsung or HTC sticks on their phones, and being forced to keep it that way for 2 years is a deal breaker.

Creepy Google....

Even though I don't opt-out, google still creeps me out sometimes.  Don't get me wrong, I like that google checks the traffic and gives me a real time to leave for the doctor etc... it's still a little eerie that google knows where I am, where I go and keeps all of it stored forever.

1984 was just 30 years too late...