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I can't speak for your experiences with the HTC Sensation, but my Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 4.1.1 has been remarkably stable, especially compared to my previous phone, an HTC Legend running Android 2.2.

As for broader issues you raise about openness vs. the walled garden, I'm also excited to see alternatives like Firefox OS, Ubuntu Phone and so on take shape.

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Indeed, with my SGS3 I feel like it's about the best phone I'm going to need for a while. I'm pretty happy to say that I'm totally satisfied with this phone and I think I will be for quite a while.

Seriously, it's so fast, so stable, and has all the things I want (solid camera, fast Web browsing, day long battery, etc) that I doubt I'll want anything else for maybe years.

I have a Note II running 4.1.1 and I experience the OP's "deluge of texts/notifications hours after the fact" issue. It's very frustrating to get pinged with 10+ notifications at once that came in over the past hours.

To be fair, it's wifi related, but to be more fair: every single iOS device gets texts and notifications from the identically same wifi network without any issue.

If it's anything like my work network, it's because you have ports blocked. Agreed that it's annoying that iOS has no such problems, but I'm guessing we have a minority problem.

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