[noderat]

I have owned since launch day a Nexus 1, Nexus 4, 2x Nexus 6, 2x Nexus 7 and Pixel 2 XL and they are all currently still functional well past their warranty. (The Nexus 1 was replaced by Assurion for water damage with a refurbished device @1.5yrs but replacement is still running.) In fact my Nexus 4 is still in use every day as an APRS GPS receiver/data logger, and one of the Nexus 6s is now in use by a co-worker as a OBD2 data logger/HUD.

I've avoided Samsung devices (including Galaxy Nexus/Nexus S) because the girlfriend has had the last 4 Samsung devices fail or become completely usable right at the end of the warranty (+/- 2mo) running completely stock. For those that became completely unusable it was usually pitiful battery life, the others became too slow to function on stock roms that I suspect they failed due to internal storage wear. Not even custom roms could save them.

I keep my devices a long time, and frequently repurpose them after they are no longer my primary device. Non-Samsung "Pixus" problems are overblown, except Nexus 6 AMOLED burn-in which is annoying but didn't present itself until it was used daily as a HUD.

[metildaa]

Seems like you missed the horrid bootlooping issues of the Nexus 5x, the bad battery firmware on the Nexus 6p, and the bootlooping and flakey charge controller on the OG Pixel.

Your choice in devices of the Nexus/Pixel series is very lucky, you avoided the defective models nearly entirely. I have no faith that I will be similarly lucky.