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Crap. I’m now considering buying a new Pixel phone - I need to switch from iPhone to Android for certain reasons, and I hate pre-installed crap of Samsung. (Sa

Crap. I’m now considering buying a new Pixel phone - I need to switch from iPhone to Android for certain reasons, and I hate pre-installed crap of Samsung. (Samsung Internet? Really?) But I also don’t want to deal with HW issues and my family never had any HW problems with Samsung… so I guess Samsung it is?

Justin_K 5y ago
Ive been blow away at how great my OnePlus 8 is. Camera is not as good as Samsung but everything else is great.
vorpalhex 5y ago
If you don't need the latest and greatest, Nokia ships relatively vanilla android phones that are durable as hell.
- shp0ngle 5y ago
  They don't do vanilla android anymore and the new models have some shovelware stuff.
therealcamino 5y ago
Before I had a Pixel 3 I had a couple of Motorola phones, and they didn't have much extra crap installed.
sundvor 5y ago
Samsung Internet is actually surprisingly good. Highly performant, and a plethora built in adblockers (sadly not Origin). Night mode works across all sites, it clearly was written by a team enthusiastic about their jobs.
- mekster 5y ago
  Galaxy somehow makes owning phones actually fun. Pixel makes me feel I got a bare bone phone except I like the camera better than Galaxy's which feels a bit too vivid. Kudos to the Galaxy team.
  - shp0ngle 5y ago
    I don't understand what's fun having two versions of everything. Two browsers, two stores, two photo apps.
    - sundvor 5y ago
      I fail to see the downside of choice. It's fair enough that the manufacturer provides their basic out of the box apps, and no-one forces you to use others than Samsung's. If you don't want to use the Samsung versions, they're easy to hide away eg in a folder in the all apps directory. Typically a user puts most often used apps on a desktop anyway, so you'll only see what you want to use. My S21 Ultra has 512GB of storage, it's hardly want for more.
cute_boi 5y ago
Samsung phone are the worst phone I have ever used. They are even hard to root because they have some shitty knox trip button. I used xiomi and they are also bad due to adverts/data collection but I flashed other roms and my device is working flawlessly.

Justin_K 5y ago

Ive been blow away at how great my OnePlus 8 is. Camera is not as good as Samsung but everything else is great.

vorpalhex 5y ago

If you don't need the latest and greatest, Nokia ships relatively vanilla android phones that are durable as hell.

shp0ngle 5y ago
They don't do vanilla android anymore and the new models have some shovelware stuff.

therealcamino 5y ago

Before I had a Pixel 3 I had a couple of Motorola phones, and they didn't have much extra crap installed.

sundvor 5y ago

Samsung Internet is actually surprisingly good. Highly performant, and a plethora built in adblockers (sadly not Origin). Night mode works across all sites, it clearly was written by a team enthusiastic about their jobs.

mekster 5y ago
Galaxy somehow makes owning phones actually fun. Pixel makes me feel I got a bare bone phone except I like the camera better than Galaxy's which feels a bit too vivid. Kudos to the Galaxy team.
- shp0ngle 5y ago
  I don't understand what's fun having two versions of everything. Two browsers, two stores, two photo apps.
  - sundvor 5y ago
    I fail to see the downside of choice. It's fair enough that the manufacturer provides their basic out of the box apps, and no-one forces you to use others than Samsung's. If you don't want to use the Samsung versions, they're easy to hide away eg in a folder in the all apps directory. Typically a user puts most often used apps on a desktop anyway, so you'll only see what you want to use. My S21 Ultra has 512GB of storage, it's hardly want for more.

cute_boi 5y ago

Samsung phone are the worst phone I have ever used. They are even hard to root because they have some shitty knox trip button. I used xiomi and they are also bad due to adverts/data collection but I flashed other roms and my device is working flawlessly.