I don't think Nokia is quite back where they started. They aren't tied to Symbian or Windows Phone anymore. It's kind of a good place they are in. They have a quality reputation and nobody really expects a damn thing from them and pretty much everyone has written them off. Actually not a bad place to be when you think about it.

Potentially. I guess the question is, what aren't the big guys doing? Sony has the phones for people that want to go snorkeling with them, Moto covers a large price range with reasonably solid, competitive near stock options at various price levels, plus loads of customization options. Samsung has the best displays, they can now match Apple's TouchID, and apparently the camera in the GS6 is very good. HTC has fallen behind a bit, but LG seems to be doing pretty good lately, and they are holding the torch for those that absolutely must have removable batteries and SD card slots.

The fact that Samsung is losing market share I think is also not necessarily good for Nokia because I think it's forcing them out of their complacency. The GS5 basically sucked. The GS6 doesn't suck. I'm curious what they will do with the Note 5 later in the year, but my guess is they are going to pull out all of the stops, as typically the Note is a higher-end product than the Galaxy series. A Note with a real leather back like the LG G4 would be cool, that might be enough to finally get me to sell my GN1 and make the upgrade.

Got the Z3v. Liking it quite a lot so far. Glad I finally picked up a new phone.

Any browsers you know of that have the old quick controls from the AOSP browser? Coming from 4 years of HTC phones where the default browser is a Sense modified AOSP browser with the quick controls from the labs menu, I am completely stunned there are no browsers on the Play Store (that I can find) that have this absolutely essential interface ability. Been trying to find an acceptable browser all night and nothing is anywhere near as controllable.

I assume you know what I'm talking about but if you don't here's an example. You slide your finger from off the screen on to the left or right side to reveal these blue menu buttons with further levels once you hold on the first level button.

Why not? It is light years better than anything else. Using Chrome on my Z3V tonight is like driving without a steering wheel. It's almost enough to make me want to return the phone. There are threads upon threads of people for years (based on my searching tonight) demanding Google add it to Chrome.