[eBombzor]

In what way was the Huawei better? Not disagreeing, I myself regretted upgrading to the Pixel 7 from an S10e. Screen, portability, and speaker quality were all downgrades.

And wasn't the whole play store debacle part of some US ban on Huawei? Something outside of Google's control?

[zidad]

Battery life, screen quality, performance.. It has of course all this super annoying bloatware you can't remove but some of the extra features were actually quite good and I miss those now (close all apps, how to create screen recordings and screenshot, etc).

Yeah it was a forced by a US policy on a wider Huawei ban, which I think is more a "protect our companies" motivation.

[markdoubleyou]

I "upgraded" from a Samsung Galaxy S9 to a Pixel 7 this year, only because Samsung stopped doing security updates. Big disappointment for me, too. The fingerprint scanner from that 2018 phone was 10x more reliable than the in-screen thing that the Pixel uses.

I don't miss the battling software ecosystems (Samsung vs Google) on that old phone, though.

[eBombzor]

Oof. I forgot about how much better Samsung's sonic FP readers were. Yeah completely forgot about that from the S10e. I will say for the Pixel it's a little bit better now than it was at launch.