The inevitable question do i stick to Stock ROM or move to a Custom Rom.

If you are not scared of technology then the usual question comes whether I want a custom rom or should i stick to Stock rom. Just to explain STOCK rom is what your device is shipped with and Custom rom is a highly customised rom devoid of what a Samsung or HTC wants you to use. 

Now is Custom Rom for you?? 

If you are going to use your phone 

A) To show that you have the latest in terms of Technology
B) Just for your emails, messaging, Facebook or Google+ and Calling up. 

then you should not even think of Custom Rom. Its not needed your phone is pretty well equipped to Handle the above tasks without even draining any resources. However if you like to play around with you phone like I like to do then at some stage you would have to let go of warranty and Root the phone, a basic step towards moving to Custom Roms. Once rooted you have more access to the root functions of the phone and the warranty of the phone is void. (You also run the risk of Bricking the device, making it unusable) let me give an example, a friend of mine saw me on my SIII 9305 LTE and upgraded from his SIII to 9300 to 9305 like me, He asked me how to root it and I told him about it. While using ODIN to root he flashed the file for 9300 instead of 9500 and voila there were no Signals any more on his phone. Took us better part of 1 day to sort this mess out by flashing different Custom Roms till we got it working. 

So be sure that you are really ready to mess with your phone before you root it. Once rooted voila you have opened a world of possibilities for your phone. The first thing I did was to move from the over stocked STOCK Rom with all the features that Samsung wanted me to have but I didnt want, to a custom ROM, I chose a ROM called AVATAR. Pretty slim rom and worked great, had a few bugs though on the camera and the speaker Volume was quiet inferior but the good thing was that I was on Android 4.2.2 which was a very smooth experience and I really enjoyed it for a while. (Available here) and then I moved to the other ROM which is the Super Nexus for 9305 (Available Here) A Lovely experience but I was still facing the low speaker volume issue so I tried another Rom which is very similar to the STOCK rom but stripped of a lot of the extras that Mr. Samsung wants me to have. I think I have found a perfect Rom for myself now. (The only draw back that I had to downgrade from 4.2.2 to 4.1.2 a small price to pay considering that my 3 year old can now easily talk to her grand parents on Speaker Phone. The Rom I am currently on is called The Galaxy Project 2.02 (Available Here) and I am very happy, eventually the rom would get upgrades.

So Yes CUSTOM Roms are definitely for me and I would not be going back to any manufacturer like LG which doesnt have custom roms for it due to the fact that they dont release the Source code, the only Phones I am buying are the ones which have custom roms for them as they give me more flexibility.

Take your pic Guys, If you are not gonna Root and dont want Custom Roms then there are great phones for you but If you would like to tinker a little then check before you buy. 

Cheers