I had to switch away from Android to iPhone because although there's a lot about Android I prefer, I need my basic apps to run without fucking crashing. I'm tal

I had to switch away from Android to iPhone because although there's a lot about Android I prefer, I need my basic apps to run without fucking crashing. I'm talking about sending sms being impossible because the stock SMS app crashes. Being unable to use Maps because typing in the blank caused it to crash. And the thing is, I suspect that there are good Android phones that don't have these problems, but several of my friends have phones from several different vendors that are nearly unusable. It's like a minefield - I want to buy my girlfriend a replacement for her mostly-broken Android phone, but I have no idea how to evaluate whether a given model will be a broken piece of shit. At least iPhone is a known quality - I miss having a decent Maps app, but at least it isn't broken.