QuickQuickQuick Samsung or Pixel?

[Horse]

My Samsung S9 is getting flaky, I need to change soon. Latest example was not charging until completely flat and switched off.

Foal changed from S to Pixel a while back. I'm thinking of doing the same. It would be 7 or 7a.

Any big gotchas or things to be wary of?

[McNab]

I swapped to pixel for my current phone, a 7+ or pro or whatever it's called. I'm really happy with it. Nice screen, battery seems to last for ever. I reckon I could go for 4 or 5 days before it really needed a charge.

It does a few things different to the samsung S8 I had previously but fiddling in the settings got it to where I like it.

I'd have another Pixel.

[KungFooBob]

I'm on an almost two year old 6a, it does everything I need easily, I'm yet to find the CPU/Memory lacking. I can't think of anything I'd swap it for... not even a newer one. I'll probably just keep this one until it dies.

[Mussels]

I have a Samsung and I'm really annoyed with the whole Samsung account thing, not necessary and I won't have another.
My wife had a pixel and I found the UI unnecessarily different to vanilla android, I'd rather learn that than have Samsung spamming me with offers so I'd go pixel.

[KungFooBob]

My wife had a pixel and I found the UI unnecessarily different to vanilla android

But the Pixel is vanilla android, you can't get anymore vanilla than a Pixel!

[MyLittleStudPony]

I've got a Pixel, a 7a I think. I've had it for about a year. I'm very pleased with it. I think I bought it from John Lyewis!

[Taff]

I've had a Pixel 7 for 2.5 years, the wife changed to an 8 at the 2 year point, before the 7's we both had 4's and I think we might have had the 2's before that, with no issues among any of them.

My 4 bounced down a MTB trail after coming loose from the bars at about 20+mph, the screen did crack but I had issue with it using it for about a year after

[Skub]

I know nowt about pixels,but I changed my old S6 for an A34 last year and it does my job. Really long battery life,I charge it about once a week.

[cheb]

FWIW the chap in an EE store suggested a Samsung A05 as a cheap usable smartphone. I bought one from Argos as EE don't sell phones. I've not had create a Samsung account for it to work as I want. I don't want much from a phone, calls, texts, Signal or similar, and a few random apps. I don't have email set up on it and I don't browse the net either.

I've not tried a Pixel.

[MrLongbeard]

Started with a Pixel 2xl, moved onto a Pixel 6XL, now rocking an 8XL, they just work for me, I've no worries about longevity as the 2XL is till being used as a daily personal phone by the wife and it's getting on for 6 years old now.

[Horse]

Thanks, all! Reassuring

[Mussels]

My wife had a pixel and I found the UI unnecessarily different to vanilla android

But the Pixel is vanilla android, you can't get anymore vanilla than a Pixel!

That's what I thought but hers was different to any other I've had and I used to buy oneplus as they were the most vanilla available at the time.
Maybe Android changed at that point but I found it really awkward to swap between apps and close them.

[KungFooBob]

I had a OnePlus, it used Oxygen OS on top of vanilla Android.

[Zimbo]

I prefer the OnePlus interface, I found the Pixel lacked features I find really useful on the OnePlus OS so ditched it and went back, and the Pixel fingerprint scanner just didn't work well for me. Had the current OnePlus Nord 2 5G for two years now and it's still perfect for everything I want a phone for, I use the dual sims as well. Hated Samsung, the way they had Samsung-ised Android, immediately got rid of it. On my fourth OnePlus and no plans to change it any time soon, when I do it'll probably be another budget OnePlus - don't see what the high end ones offer for the price uplift really.