Apple actually makes good hardware, believe it or not. The only real shortcomings of the iPhone are the software and the reparability. Say, hypothetically, you could load a custom ROM on an iPhone. It would be my favourite in that case.

We don’t live in a good world, though, so it has to go to Google. It will continue to be Google until Apple fixes their business. I dislike the buttons being on one side, I dislike the gap between display and the border, and I dislike the cameras being covered when I try to get a grip on the back–but alternative OSes exist. The software is everything. I have far more utility here than on the more expensive iPhone.

Though, I have to say that I might genuinely consider an Xperia if they had alternative OSes. Good cameras, headphone jack, nice build… it’s a shame I can’t put CalyxOS on one.

Galaxy A71 5G from Samsung. Budget phone that I got a couple years back.

I’d say the roughly $200 A15 5G I bought directly from them less than a few months ago and didn’t get warranty, but I accidentally went swimming with it and fried the fucker. It was shaping up to be a pretty good upgrade from my A71 phone, but it can’t be much of an upgrade when it’s dead.

I loved my Nexus 4. I also liked my Nexus 5X a lot, although it had debilitating hardware faults and eventually destroyed itself.

Google Pixel because of GrapheneOS

i also really like Fairphone. In a perfect world the fairphones would have the same or equivalent security chip as the Pixels. I’d really prefer to buy a european smartphone due to privacy and install GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS is a must for me.

A Pixel with GrapheneOS.