Best all-round phone I've ever had, was galaxy 2. Back in, shit 2011??

Wasn't the fastest, or best on paper... but damn, it just felt right - did everything
I needed without any annoying glitches. Then I got sucked in and I sold it for the Note 1 and it all went south from there on in...

I think they just aim for high-spec on paper, just to entice the geek in you, but the software bottlenecks all the horsepower (ghz and shit) to really function/perform properly.