[jmhyer123]

I have a Pixel 3. It's the first phone I've truly felt I could live with beyond it's 2 year expected life because the OS is still fast and responsive, the battery still holds a charge and it lasts all day on a single charge. Being water proof definitely helps too. The phone still gets Android OS updates so I don't feel like I'm missing out on features or security. The only reason I'll be upgrading soon is the hardware buttons are failing. The volume up button gets stuck and the power button will occasionally get stuck as well putting the phone in a reboot cycle that's hard to break out of. I'm not sure if this is an issue from wear or if it got dropped on the buttons (I have kids, they're pretty gentle with devices but accidents have been known to happen). I've gotten around the issue with an app that remaps the buttons so if they get stuck held down it just doesn't do anything. The trade off is I have to use the Accessibility tools to change the volume or power off the device, but the tools are really well integrated with the OS (on the Pixel 3, at least) that it hasn't been much of an annoyance at all.

Prior devices were mostly Samsung Galaxy models, the Samsung flavor of Android was terribly slow and consistently got worse as you approached that 2 year mark. The plastic portions of the housing always managed to accumulate chips and cracks especially on the corners and even with screen protectors install the glass would manage to crack at the slightest bump or drop. The OS was already out of date before I bought it and it rarely got updates, if it did it was months after the Android OS release and usually made the device perform worse.