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Favorite manufacturer: Fairphone
Favorite smartphone: OnePlus 12R (Oxygen OS is what Android should be and they are the only manufacturer in the West who regulates pwm frequency) and also iPhone SE 3 (fuck you, we are putting our flagship processor in a 12 year old phone design satisfies my I wish they made a 1979 F-150 with an electric engine)
Google, unfortunately. Graphene sandboxes the google play services and Calyx spoofs it through microg.
I'd try a fairphone or a librem but I can replace my Pixel6 for $400 and have it within days if needed.
I used to own a Samsung galaxy s6, and that thing was killer. I still miss mine since it's compass was pretty much perfect compared to the wildly inaccurate one on my s21 ultra.
Google Pixel because of GrapheneOS
i also really like Fairphone. In a perfect world the fairphones would have the same or equivalent security chip as the Pixels. I'd really prefer to buy a european smartphone due to privacy and install GrapheneOS.
GrapheneOS is a must for me.
Now that I think about it, every phone I've owned has had significant issues: lousy camera (HTC), overheating (LG), poor battery life (Samsung, Google, HTC), steadily degrading performance (Samsung), boot looping (LG), weird colour handling on photos (HTC, Google), etc. So I guess they're all bad?
I wouldn't say "favourite". I've bought two Pixels because I like the photos they produce.
My current phone (P8P) has the fewest issues so far. It's only a year old, so I'm sure they'll appear.
Miss my old HTC One M9. That little bastard was a tank
I had the HTC One M8 and I feel exactly the same way. 🙌
HTC. i still mourn its passing
They just released a new phone. It's pretty good.
I'm in the Samsung boat currently and was considering Pixel but with Google being, you know, Google, I was more recently considering OnePlus, the Open in particular.
Any other considerations to sway me either way?
"Just whatever makes sense"
I'm on my second Oppo. Decent specs (I like the 512Gb, double SIM slot, superfast charging) and cheaper than anything comparable.
It was OnePlus. The OnePlus 1 was the best phone on the market at the time, and lasted beautifully. The same was true for the OnePlus 6, which lasted up until I got the Pixel 8.
It was the last time that OnePlus and Oppo made great phones without compromise, because right after laughing at Google for ditching the headphone jack they did the same thing! They had some success, and sadly, started compromising.
Even today, I miss features from my OP6. The screen gestures are a feature I would pay extra for on my Pixel. Today, I genuinely cannot think of a good company releasing Android phones. For years, picking an Android phone has been an exercise in calculating how many features you can afford to live without for an extortionate price.
A Pixel with GrapheneOS.
I loved my Nexus 4. I also liked my Nexus 5X a lot, although it had debilitating hardware faults and eventually destroyed itself.
Nexus 5X still going strong!
(though it did need some hacking to keep it alive)
Galaxy A71 5G from Samsung. Budget phone that I got a couple years back.
I'd say the roughly $200 A15 5G I bought directly from them less than a few months ago and didn't get warranty, but I accidentally went swimming with it and fried the fucker. It was shaping up to be a pretty good upgrade from my A71 phone, but it can't be much of an upgrade when it's dead.
iPhone, it’s not the best phone but Apple has the best ecosystem. Seamless app integration across MacBook, iPad, AppleTv, etc… I have hobby computers I tinker with to scratch that itch of building and customizing OS. The new Mac silicon chips are crazy fast though. I write a lot of Rust and on my intel chip some of my programs can take 15-30 minutes, on Apple silicon they take maybe 2 minutes at most.
