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by agileAlligator 1389 days ago
> All phones have these problems. Every phone has glaring problems you have to live with or work around.

No?

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Danger Sidekick II

Palm Treo 700

Motorola Droid

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

LG G2

Google Nexus 6P

Google Pixel XL

OnePlus 7Pro

None of them had glaring problems I had to live with or work around.

The battery life up until the LG G2 was a problem -- I usually needed to recharge mid-day if I was doing anything active. The G2 had the best form factor ever -- honestly, they should have kept the external dimensions the same and just improved the internals each year. 5.2" screen, 460 ppi. 138.5 x 70.9 x 8.9 mm. 143g. Eventually it developed a touchscreen fault that slowly spread.

The Nexus 6P was a great phone, but big. It developed battery problems after about a year. Up until then, fine.

The Pixel XL was a little disappointing because it didn't really feel like much of an advance, but it didn't have the battery problem.

I'm still using the 7 Pro, which, for a bigphone, is not bad. It has the excellent motorized pop-up selfie cam, which I like because I hardly ever use it. When I do use it, it deploys quickly. Battery life is starting to degrade (2.5 years in) and I'm thinking about either a Pixel 7 or an Asus Zenphone 9 this fall.

So, no. Not every phone has glaring problems.