Which phone?

Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC Sensation XE and Motorola Razr are better than all three phones you mentioned spec-wise IMO. Any reason for not choosing among those?

For what you chose

1.) Never been a fan of LG

2.) Not exactly outdated. Came a little ahead of the SGS2 but after than SGS1. Could expect about another year of official support (and of course several more for unofficial support), hardware is good enough for usage for 2 more years approx by my estimate before apps would be slow on it.

3.) Nexus phones normally have longer lifespan than others in terms of support, however hardware wise, you'll probably see many "incompatible" games on this than not in the coming months.

To know if a phone is outdated in terms of support is to look at the release date: A phone is normally supported for around 2 years after international release. This goes for flagships and the upper mid range level (phones with specs good enough to be flagship models a year before there release date). Then even after the 2 years, flagships normally have powerful enough hardware to be "useful" for an additional year or two. By that time the flagship model you bought 3 years ago will have similar specs to a mid-range model. By that time, you may think its outdated since you'll have more encounters of "not compatible" apps, and you'll have to make-do.

For example, the SGS1 has been around for 2 years. By all means official support is over, and the users can probably expect only one last update. Samsung people at the official store told me that they stopped production of SGS1 and some related models already, and will be replaced in the lineup by Galaxy W and Galaxy R as mid range phones. Anyway, I have an SGS1 variant and for all intents and purposes it still works good and does not in any way feel outdated except perhaps for some of the games (but I'm not very much into games so that's fine). I'll probably start seeing more "Android4.0 and up only" apps by the end of the year, which is probably the time I'll start seeing my phone as a little bit outdated.

chanchan05 said:

Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S2, HTC Sensation XE and Motorola Razr are better than all three phones you mentioned spec-wise IMO. Any reason for not choosing among those?

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All the phones suggested above would be my choices in that exact order

Sensation is not a bad phone, its just not in their league.

Galaxy R would be a good choice:
Samsung Galaxy R vs. LG Optimus 2X: Affordable dual-cores - GSMArena.com
Samsung I9103 Galaxy R vs. HTC Sensation - GSMArena.com