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why would you choose any of the asuses?

"nicely built", and "sleek design" are not positives, but made up qualities. That's basically a goal for all phone manufacturers

"good AI features". sorry what? do they mean the power button opens the assist lant instead of the shutdown menu? or that the device sends home an order of magnitude more information about you than usual?

"ultra portable"? what the fuck does that mean for a fucking smartphone?

and "univeral fast charging" means it's glued in battery will wear out ultra fast.

buy a pixel if you don't care about keeping it for a long time, and about having a removable battery. otherwise get a fairphone

Lol at the last phones "pro" being "ultra portable".

Unless this means that programs and such can be ported to it, aren't all cell phones ultra portable? Isn't that the point?

To me that's like saying a pro of a specific model of car is that it is "ultra drivable"

pixel, so you can run GrapheneOS

Is there a particular reason you need a brand new model? I tend to look at flagships that are a year or two old.

You might want to specify what your requirements are in a phone - this might help us :)

Also, have you tried the following communities?

• !askandroid@lemdro.id
• !android@lemdro.id

God can these people keep AI out of phones?

Even those stupid "AI" camera features can fuck off, they always make the photo worse, unless all the do is pick a filter and adjust the saturation/brightness/contrast/etc. as soon as the do something unreversable like add blurring, they can fuck off because it always looks janky AF in real world use

I'm very happy with my OnePlus 12. I'd recommend looking into them as an option.

Personally, when I can afford it I'm going to go for the OnePlus Nord N10 5G. I don't feel the need for the more stringent security hardening on GrapheneOS, so basic LineageOS MicroG is enough for me.

I hate the lack of a headphone jack enough to make that tradeoff, vs a Google Pixel.

I had a similar inquiry, I think the conclusion is Pixel. It's not ideal but they're supporting updates for 7 years now which is a good push towards deshitification. And as others put, it can have custom firmware which can prolong that even longer (or if you want out of that Google ecosystem).

Haven't took the leap yet though. I'm typing this from a hand me down Galaxy S10 that's held together with rubber bands because the back glass became unglued. I haven't had updates in a while but bs Knox protection threatens to brick the thing if I flash a new firmware. Pixels are expensive, though.

samsung galaxy S10. headphone jack, expandable micro SD storage, none of the bloatware.

I look for a rom first, then a phone

Google now provides a full 7 years of parts and updates for the pixel 8 and 9. Samsung may I think now do 7 years of updates on some phones no idea about parts though.

Motorola One. Cost me 200 bucks four years ago. Claims to be water resistant, but I've dropped it in the lake about a dozen times and accidentally tossed it in the washing machine once (I got it out right away.) It hasn't so much as frozen since buying it and the battery can still go about two days without a charge.