Honestly this was one of the best possible outcomes.
It was never gonna be Samsung since their Galaxy brand was too strong.
I was hoping it wasn’t HTC because just about anything by them not called the One M7 was a complete piece of shit. It’s part of the reason I never trusted Pixel (they were made by HTC until Google bought their hardware division and all that baggage).
LG and Motorola were both attractive options. Motorola stayed in the US and is now (? Or was once?) owned by Lenovo (China). LG is Korean. I honestly like LG more, but Motorola is cool too. I just remember 15 years ago when they wouldn’t even update phones once. What you bought was what you ended up with when you got something newer. Hopefully things are different now.
iPhone guy but I also have a Galaxy S10 (2019). I kinda wanna upgrade it next (iPhone is a 16 Pro Max from 2024, It should be fine for a decade or so). I took a long hard look at that OnePlus that ticked every box but had mid cameras (15?). The base Galaxy S feels like the default option. It would be fine. A gently used year old Pixel I can put Graphene on is another. I don’t do mobile gaming (except Subway Surfers, that shit is fun, but it’s also from like 2007 or something so it’s not pushing mobile gaming anywhere except into the trash, it really is hot garbage but fun) so I don’t care about top performance. I really just care about music, maps, and being able to get online. Really gives me a lot of options. The iPhone’s basically just for private health tracking you can’t get on Android. And AirPods.
I am an iPhone user too, but have been wanting to move to AOSP for while. All phones are so large now, so am using a mini. Hopefully Graphene works on a razr (flip) soon!
I do know that there are ways to use AirPods (with limited functionality) on Android. Same with the watch, though my S10 (oddly, my Apple Watch and Samsung phone have the same name) will be my last smartwatch. I’m just not impressed with the technology. I’ll either just stick to department store watches ($50 or less) or I’ll find a fitness tracker I don’t hate. I dunno. Leaning toward the basic one, though. I just don’t need a watch to do more than tell the time. And they take so long to charge. Like you almost have to get two, and charge them every other day while you sleep (that is, if you want to wear one for sleep tracking — if not, just charge it at night, they seem to take a few hours to charge).
Honestly this was one of the best possible outcomes.
It was never gonna be Samsung since their Galaxy brand was too strong.
I was hoping it wasn’t HTC because just about anything by them not called the One M7 was a complete piece of shit. It’s part of the reason I never trusted Pixel (they were made by HTC until Google bought their hardware division and all that baggage).
LG and Motorola were both attractive options. Motorola stayed in the US and is now (? Or was once?) owned by Lenovo (China). LG is Korean. I honestly like LG more, but Motorola is cool too. I just remember 15 years ago when they wouldn’t even update phones once. What you bought was what you ended up with when you got something newer. Hopefully things are different now.
iPhone guy but I also have a Galaxy S10 (2019). I kinda wanna upgrade it next (iPhone is a 16 Pro Max from 2024, It should be fine for a decade or so). I took a long hard look at that OnePlus that ticked every box but had mid cameras (15?). The base Galaxy S feels like the default option. It would be fine. A gently used year old Pixel I can put Graphene on is another. I don’t do mobile gaming (except Subway Surfers, that shit is fun, but it’s also from like 2007 or something so it’s not pushing mobile gaming anywhere except into the trash, it really is hot garbage but fun) so I don’t care about top performance. I really just care about music, maps, and being able to get online. Really gives me a lot of options. The iPhone’s basically just for private health tracking you can’t get on Android. And AirPods.
LG stopped making phones around '21-'22, so they’re off the table.
https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods
I am an iPhone user too, but have been wanting to move to AOSP for while. All phones are so large now, so am using a mini. Hopefully Graphene works on a razr (flip) soon!
I do know that there are ways to use AirPods (with limited functionality) on Android. Same with the watch, though my S10 (oddly, my Apple Watch and Samsung phone have the same name) will be my last smartwatch. I’m just not impressed with the technology. I’ll either just stick to department store watches ($50 or less) or I’ll find a fitness tracker I don’t hate. I dunno. Leaning toward the basic one, though. I just don’t need a watch to do more than tell the time. And they take so long to charge. Like you almost have to get two, and charge them every other day while you sleep (that is, if you want to wear one for sleep tracking — if not, just charge it at night, they seem to take a few hours to charge).