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by dsr_ 1382 days ago
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.