Doing a major cleanout of a family member's house and came across 3 old phones I'd passed on to them to use in emergencies. These phones all still work, but don't get updates anymore. I don't have a use for them (we have repurposed most of our older phones and this house cannot take any more webcams :D ), and I came across this sub when looking to find out if these phones can even be used, anymore.
Is there a place I can post the phones where people who want them can find them? I'm willing to offer them for free and would only ask whoever to pay for shipping.
For the curious, the devices are:
ZTE Grand X 3 (Cricket Wireless) ASUS Padfone Mini (first gen) Verizon HTC One M8 (Windows Phone)
Thanks in advance for the help!

I have been an apple user since 2005. The last phone I used before iPhone was the HTC Touch around 2009 (maybe?), and a few days with some Android around 2013 that was so awful I swore of anything but the iPhone.
The iPhone started to lose it's sparkle for me around the 11 Pro, so I held off on upgrading. I was debating a different phone, but jumped on this one as soon as I heard about it. I have ZERO regrets.
This phone is so easy to use and beautiful! I got the titanium yellow and it's akin to Apple's gold except it reacts to different lighting in a much more fun way. I'll be using some case on mine, but the phone itself feels great in my hands. I'm a girl with average girl hands and it handles perfect. The weight is balanced nicely.
I haven't found a single thing about this phone that I would complain about. It took me less than an hour to switch fully over and get going. I don't forsee ever needing to go back to an iPhone after this- ohhh and almost forgot to mention the camera, it's even better than everyone is saying! I pulled my camera out and when I started zooming in I discovered my dog across the house has fleas, then I zoomed in further and those fleas have parasites waving white flags of defeat now that they have been spotted. Haha all joking aside- obviously my dog doesn't have fleas, but I can easily count individual hairs from across the room with my phone now!
Initial reaction to this phone: 10/10 would recommend I didn't have to sign for my phone. Carrier: Verizon No issues with the screen Mine shipped from Ontario, Canada

First off, no hate for the Chinese people. Appreciate you guys and I'm a fan of Xiania. That said, I just can't trust the PCCCP. So when I fucked up my phone's speaker and realized it was time to get me a new (secondhand) phone, one of the things I started out with was researching the "who makes what and where" of it all. Which turned out to be a LOT more fucking work than I thought it would be when I started out.
Now, I live in the US and so I'm mostly concerned about phones that will work here with our craptastic US mobile oligopoly networks... Not necessarily ones that are sold here, just that are at least somewhat compatible. Sorry in advance to everyone outside the US. If it was less work, I wouldn't mind helping but even this much was a pain in the ass to research, so my advice is to start a separate thread for that and maybe some of these notes might help?
What I'm really hoping is that you guys can help me out by double-checking my brand research and mentioning any phone manufacturers that have stuff that's Made in China (MiC), calling out any mistakes in my notes, chiming in with anything else I missed. That kind of feedback would be greatly appreciated before I set off to start buying anything. I realize that some of these such as LG are not really making phones anymore but are still useful to be aware of for those like myself that are interested in buying secondhand phones. I'm not really considering all phones or anything either. I basically picked anything made in 2019 or newer since my phone is old as shit and I want at least a small upgrade. Plus AFAICT most US carriers won't accept anything that doesn't have nano SIM and all of them dropped 3G anyway. I will try to drop back and make corrections / additions / adjustments here and there but I will probably be slower than desired.
Anyway, here's a rough layout of the current manufacturing scenario as I understand it after poking around online for several hours. Not promising it's perfect or even complete but I tried. Hopefully it helps somebody

• Apple/Foxconn: Not really "Android". Not really made by Apple (Apple designs, Foxconn manufactures). But still. Now, I'm not personally inclined to try Apple / iPhone ecosystem. And it sounds like Apple has maybe cried wolf a few times about moving manufacturing of their phones out of China. But for those that still like Apple enough to consider them, it sounds like starting with the iPhone 15 they might really do it this time tho.
  
• Alacatel: Owned by Nokia and according to wikipedia "used under license by Chinese electronics company TCL Technology". With TCL being "a Chinese partially state-owned electronics company". Not really surprising that it's MiC.
  
• ASUS: According to wikipedia, they are based out of Taiwan. I believe at least some of their phones are manufactured there but was not able to confirm. I was able to confirm that at least some of their phones, unfortuntely, are MIC (1, 2). It sounds like ASUS may also be leaving the smartphone market.
  
• CAT aka Caterpillar: US-based company that appears to specialize in ruggedized phones. I'm not in a profession that really "needs" these but since I'm clumsy af and have completely fubar'd a phone or three in the past, I was still interested. These phones are actually manufactured by Bullitt, a UK-based company. Still couldn't find a damn thing about where their phones are made tho... (possibly MiC?). edit: confirmed by u/FlushableWipe2023 - per wikipedia: "Manufacturing is primarily in China."
  
• Fairphone: According to wikipedia, the company itself is based out of the Netherlands. Unfortunately, they go on to say that "Since version two, the Fairphone is produced in Suzhou, China, by Hi-P International Limited." This is probably the one I was most disappointed with since it was near the top of my "most wanted" list before I started looking into manufacturing. If them being right-to-repair friendly means more to you than them being MIC, then folks in the USA who don't want to deal with getting one shipped from EU might look at murena.com which is the US seller for Fairphone. I have heard mention that (but not confirmed) that Fairphone 4 and 5 only work on T-mobile and even then that you will not have full coverage on all frequency bands - so depending on where you live / travel, YMMV. If you are considering this, I recommend researching the frequency bands more and asking questions online before buying.
  
• Google/Pixel/Foxconn: Google is a US-based company. According to wiki they've had Foxconn (a Taiwanese company) producing their Pixel series of Phones since the Pixel 3 back in 2018 all the way to present. However, it doesn't take much googling to see Foxconn despite being a Taiwanese company has a lot of manufacturing done in China proper. From 2019 Q4 forward, Google moved Pixel manufacturing out of China to Vietnam and are going to move again to India in 2024 (1, 2). I've heard that at least some Pixels still come out of China currently but have not confirmed this. Unfortunately, I'm not willing to give up microsd (or equivalent cloudless removable storage), so the Pixel line is probably not a great fit for me despite sounding awesome for custom roms.
  
• HTC according to wiki they are Taiwanese so I would think they should be ok. Then again, Foxconn is also Taiwanese and does a ton manufacturing in China so we can't go strictly by the HQ location... As for HTC, I couldn't really find anything definitive for ALL of their phones. They definitely had at least one made in Taiwan. Way back in 2014, they also did some outsourcing to chinese company Wingtech. But more recently (2023), there was talk about them exiting Chinese markets. So, in summary, I couldn't find nothing concrete on HTC's manufacturing.
  
• Kyocera: It seems they have left the smartphone market and I couldn't find anything definitive on their manufacturing process anyway. edit: It seems that their exit was an incorrect rumor, likely due to a translation error. See u/KyoceraMobile's comments below which indict that Kyocera is still alive and well - which is supported by the fact that you can still find new Nokia's available on Verizon and apparently on US Cellular as well. u/KyoceraMobile also confirmed that their phones are indeed made in Japan. See their comments below for more info.
  
• Librem: See Purism, the manufacturer.
  
• LG was primarily manufactured in Vietnam and S Korea but no longer make new phones so they're only worth mentioning for secondhand stuff. I currently have a v20 and fucking love that phone but mine is on its last legs with a messed up speaker. Main issue I am finding with any LG phones is that there is limited availability of secondhand phones to buy replacements from since no new LG phones are being made. Plus, even tho most v20's seemed like they were made in Korea, I have personally come across some that were MiC so they definitely exist.
  
• Motorola: not only are they manufactured in China but they are owned by Chinese company Lenovo
  
• Nokia: Both their manufacturing locations and info about those locations seem to vary a LOT (see comment below). I can't definitively tell if they have completely exited China. It seems like they or Foxconn - who does some of their manufacturing - have plants in Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, a new one in Hungary, and a few other non-China locations so there are definitely some of their phones that are NOT MIC. Whether or not they still have MICs too, I can't say but they do at least have some indirect ties to China (they own Alcatel and license it to Chinese TCL) so it may be worth at least researching before you buy or making sure that you only go for the Nokia XR21 made in Hungary. If anybody has links / better info, please let me know and I will attempt to update. Thanks to u/AustrianKangaroo4689 for mentioning I was missing them and giving me some info to start off of.
  
• Nothing Tech / Nothing Phones: I hadn't heard of these guys until very recently. Apparently they are popular enough to be on gsmarena (not a huge achievement but OTOH gsmarena still doesn't have entries for pinephone or librem). According to wiki, the company is based out of London and apparently just entered the US market in mid-2023?, so I guess that's why I hadn't heard of them before. Wiki had no info on where the phones were actually being made. Looking online, at first glance, it sounds like they are making the "Nothing Phone 2" in India (1, 2) but this phonearena page notes that "There's just one important detail–only those units to be sold on the Indian market will be made in India, as rumored" and that "Who gets to manufacture the intriguing flagship phone? According to The Indian Express, it’s none other than BYD Electronics, a Shenzhen-based company" ... So where are the versions sold in the US being made? Frankly, I have no idea but it sounds like China is at least a possibility. If anyone has anything more concrete, then please comment below.
  
• PINE64 / Pinephone: Technically, these are Linux phones, not Android. PINE64 is based out of Hong Kong and the phones are manufactured in China. I would NOT recommend Pinephones phones for most users, and especially not for non-technical people. If you are a developetinketech aficionado, do your research before deciding, but since these phones are not ready to be used as daily-drivers, IMHO everyone else will probably be better off with something else.
  
• Purism: Makers of the Librem 5. Again, technically, these are Linux phones, not Android. Purism offers two variants: plain old "Librem 5" and the "Librem 5 USA". According to their own page explaining the differences, essentially the 2 phones are more or less identical aside from the regular one being mass produced in China and having a subsequently lower price and the "Librem 5 USA" being 100% made in America and having a massive price tag (rought $2000 USD). There is also a separate model they are calling the "Liberty Phone" which is also 100% Made in USA, also 2 grand, and appears to have slightly upgraded specs (appears to have same cpu / screen size / battery / cameras but ram is increased from 3GB to 4GB, internal storage is increased from 32GB to 128GB, supports all of the old wifi protocols plus the newer ac/ax ones, Bluetooth version increased from 4 to 5.3). I would NOT recommend Librem/Liberty phones for most users, and especially not for non-technical people. If you are a developetinketech aficionado, do your research before deciding, but since these phones are not ready to be used as daily-drivers, IMHO everyone else will probably be better off with something else.
  
• Samsung: sounds like they used to have some MiCs so anyone buying older phones (up to and including first half of 2019 - See 1, 2) might want to watch out. Sounds like those years aren't a guarantee of MiC, just a possibility so they are still worth checking out but apparently 2019 is the year they stopped manufacturing in China. And if you're buying new, this is one of the more solid "Not Made In China" choices (and if they still as good as they were when I last had a Samsung, they're pretty damn good regardless).
  
• Sony: sounds like (1, 2, 3) they mostly manufacture out of Thailand and Japan.
  
• Sonim: Another US-based company that appears to specialize in ruggedized phones. But again, I couldn't find a damn thing about where their phones are actually made... (another possible MiC?) edit: confirmed by u/FlushableWipe2023 - per prnewswire that in Dec 2020, Sonim transfered manufacturing to China-based Unicair
  
• T-mobile aka REVVL: Seems these are just rebranded TCL phones. As mentioned above, TCL is "a Chinese partially state-owned electronics company".
  
• Other: Blackview, Coolpad, Cubot, Doogee, Gionee, Honor, Huawei, Infinix, itel, Lenovo, Meizu, OnePlus, Oppo, Oukitel, Realme, TCL, Tecno, Ulefone, vivo, Xiaomi, ZTE: Every single one of these is a Chinese company. They may have differing levels of state-ownership - wikipedia explicitly mentioned Honor as state-owned and both TCL and ZTE as partially-state-owned. IIUC then since every single one of them is based in China then all of these are obligated to share data with the Chinese government under the China Internet Security Law and National Intelligence Law. And even if I'm misinterpreting and those only apply for phones sold in China, that does not discount things like the Chinese government leaning on their companies with things like gag orders to slip in backdoors or similar scenarios. Hopefully, it would never come to this but if you're on this sub, then like me, you'd probably rather be safe than sorry. It's not like there's never been a precedent for the PCCCP forcing companies/media/individuals to do their bidding: 1, 2. 3, 4
  

Updated 2023-Feb-23 to add notes for Pinephone, Librem 5, and Nothing Phone.

Hi all,
I had Samsung phones for a while like the Rogue and the Reality. Then I remembered going with HTC for a while like the One M8. When the Google Pixel came out, I loved the idea of a flagship phone with no bloatware. My work phones, which were Samsungs, always came with a ton of extra crap that bogged it down and made it harder to operate (never in my life have I ever activated Bixby on purpose).
The Pixel was a great phone for the most part and I loved the unlimited photo storage. I got the Pixel 4 XL after a couple of years and loved it. There was no more unlimited photo storage after that, but it was still a decent phone but my ex-wife and I were having issues with the phones randomly powering down or having the screen go dark and then calling 9-1-1 when we tried to reset.
We upgraded to the Pixel 6 Pro. Both of us were plagued with issues. We loved the cameras and the phone generally, but they used to overheat a lot and both of us got at least one replacement.
After two years with the Pixel 6 Pro, my personal phone died on me in the middle of a business trip. I had to leave a company event to go to the Verizon store and drop like a $800 to pay off the balance of the Pixel 6 Pro and also get a new Pixel 8 Pro, case, etc. Thankfully, I was able to power on the Pixel 6 Pro a few weeks later and get a decent trade-in credit which helped.
My Pixel 8 Pro is so far a decent phone, but after two months the glass cover in front of the camera shattered. From researching this, it seems it may have come from the fact that it's been cold here, so, you take the phone outside, bring it back inside, etc., it weakens the glass. My photos look streaky because the broken glass is to the side of the lens. I may just remove the cover completely because I understand Google is not covering these repairs under warranty.
Meanwhile, my last two work phones have been iPhones - the iPhone 14 Pro Max and the iPhone 15.
I've had zero issues beyond just little things related to me not knowing how to do something on Apple vs. Android. The phones themselves are quite well-engineered and, again, I've had zero, I repeat, zero issues. Apple Maps SUCKS, but Google Maps works on iPhone, so, there, problem solved.
Google, you had a loyal Pixel user and advocate for years and I'm tired of gaslighting myself into thinking my phone is great and it's just breaking because of me using it. What use is a phone in 2024 if it doesn't hold up to daily use?
Money is tight right now, so I'll make do, but you bet your ass I'll be switching to Apple when the 16 or 17 comes out (depends on how long it takes me to dig out of this hole - lost job in November, new job in January but I burned through savings so I want to be super conservative, etc.)

Hi all,
I had Samsung phones for a while like the Rogue and the Reality. Then I remembered going with HTC for a while like the One M8. When the Google Pixel came out, I loved the idea of a flagship phone with no bloatware. My work phones, which were Samsungs, always came with a ton of extra crap that bogged it down and made it harder to operate (never in my life have I ever activated Bixby on purpose).
The Pixel was a great phone for the most part and I loved the unlimited photo storage. I got the Pixel 4 XL after a couple of years and loved it. There was no more unlimited photo storage after that, but it was still a decent phone but my ex-wife and I were having issues with the phones randomly powering down or having the screen go dark and then calling 9-1-1 when we tried to reset.
We upgraded to the Pixel 6 Pro. Both of us were plagued with issues. We loved the cameras and the phone generally, but they used to overheat a lot and both of us got at least one replacement.
After two years with the Pixel 6 Pro, my personal phone died on me in the middle of a business trip. I had to leave a company event to go to the Verizon store and drop like a $800 to pay off the balance of the Pixel 6 Pro and also get a new Pixel 8 Pro, case, etc. Thankfully, I was able to power on the Pixel 6 Pro a few weeks later and get a decent trade-in credit which helped.
My Pixel 8 Pro is so far a decent phone, but after two months the glass cover in front of the camera shattered. From researching this, it seems it may have come from the fact that it's been cold here, so, you take the phone outside, bring it back inside, etc., it weakens the glass. My photos look streaky because the broken glass is to the side of the lens. I may just remove the cover completely because I understand Google is not covering these repairs under warranty.
Meanwhile, my last two work phones have been iPhones - the iPhone 14 Pro Max and the iPhone 15.
I've had zero issues beyond just little things related to me not knowing how to do something on Apple vs. Android. The phones themselves are quite well-engineered and, again, I've had zero, I repeat, zero issues. Apple Maps SUCKS, but Google Maps works on iPhone, so, there, problem solved.
Google, you had a loyal Pixel user and advocate for years and I'm tired of gaslighting myself into thinking my phone is great and it's just breaking because of me using it. What use is a phone in 2024 if it doesn't hold up to daily use?
Money is tight right now, so I'll make do, but you bet your ass I'll be switching to Apple when the 16 or 17 comes out (depends on how long it takes me to dig out of this hole - lost job in November, new job in January but I burned through savings so I want to be super conservative, etc.)

i use dto have a modded one many many moons ago, unfortunately its battery leaked n killed it off. i just grabbed one a few days ago off ebay. its a LONG shot in the dark but hopefully someoen can find a working WM6.1/6.5 Rom for the XV6700/Apache (( till it arrives in teh mail im going to have NO idea what bootloader it's on)

I've been a Google fanboy from the start. My first smartphone was the HTC G1. I signed up to an entirely different plan going from T-Mobile to Verizon only because of the original droid. Rooting, custom UIs, all of it. I've even done some app development. Google x, Google Glass. The motto, do no harm. I was a fan of all of it. The last couple years have just been garbage for Google though.
I think the pixel 7 is going to be the last straw for me. I'm kind of surprised by it to be honest. Like I didn't expect it to be this bad. And this is my third one. I thought I had a broken phone at first but it turns out that this is just the phone.
Let's start with call quality, holy cow is it garbage. I've never had so many drop calls in my life. I get two to three a day. I'm on my phone a lot. It's part of my job and this is also my work phone. I can be just standing still in the call drops. Driving, call drops. Strongest signal possible, call drops.
Wireless charging is an absolute joke on this phone which is crazy considering how long it's been out. It may be works 1 out of 5 times. It'll start charging and then just turns off randomly. I can't tell you how many times I've woken up and my phone is at like 5%. Just dying over the night on a wireless charging stand. I've gone through multiple stands I've gone through multiple settings tried to troubleshoot. Turn things on and off. Disable this enable that. It's just trash. No other way to say it. The internet is flooded with complaints about the wireless charging and I don't think it's something Google can fix because the phone itself has the issue.
Overall performance. Wow what a disappointment. This thing runs hot. It's hot all the time. It's hot when it's just sitting there. I'm assuming it's because Google is trying everything they can to figure out a way to make money off you. After all they are a company that's built solely on ads. And because there's always a new rule of regulation that stops them from spying on you they have to come up with new ways to spy on you that there's no rule yet on. So I imagine it's tracking you 24/7. Doing whatever it can to make money off of you off the phone you bought. Because after all, this is a software company that's entire purpose it's just so you something. Or to sell you to someone else. So it's not surprising but definitely disappointing
A lot of feedback people will say is, The overall UI and performance there is pretty good. I got to a disagree with that as well. Recent apps almost never works properly. One little app pops up with everything else blank and then you have to close it and start over. There's massive lag on the home page. Scrolling is jittery. Like I feel like I'm using a 10-year-old phone sometimes. And I realize it's not even a year and get a little irritated. I don't think I've had a phone feel this aged.
I think one of the most surprising things is Google Assistant. It's still the best assistant so to speak but has somehow also gotten worse. Like I've said things like call so-and-so. And it will display the name of the person I'm trying to call and then call somebody else. Like I say call Jorge, and it will display the text, call Jorge. And then say, calling Kenny on mobile. What the hell. Voice to text is kind of trash now. It's laggy. Unrefined. Somehow someway it's actually gotten worse which is kind of weird. Once again, I'm assuming because Google's trying to make money off you and sending your voice to someone else to sell uses a lot of data making the phone laggy. Overall conclusion is, this isn't a pixel 7 problem. This is a Google problem. The hardware on the phone itself is mid tier at best. The camera is just software tricks. It's not even a good camera. It's just good processing that even now is starting to get a little dated because everyone else caught up. The pixel phone is no longer by far the best photo to ever taken. It's just, average to every other phone now
Last but not least which is by far the strangest thing is how uncustomizable pixel phones are. They are the opposite of the original Nexus phones. Google's phone was supposed to highlight all of its strengths and all of its ability to be better than everyone else and instead you get this locked down version of Android with that same apple mentality of, we know what's best for you so shut the hell up and do it our way. It's amazing that every other manufacturer that uses Android has more options and more customizability than the pixel lineup.
My overall conclusion is I'm just done with Google. This will be my last Android phone. I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and get an iPhone. I don't like iPhones. Not for any particular reason I'm just not used to that UI but I stuck with Android because it was an open source concept that at the time, was a game changer. Now, it's this played out bloatware software that is doing everything it can to track you to find out what you're doing. To listen to you, to read your messages to listen to your phone calls all of it. And don't even try to tell me it doesn't do all that. Of course it does. I had a phone conversation with a buddy about a YouTube video by a creator I've never seen in my life and that night the first suggested video was that creator and that video. Not surprising.

What is the fix for this? Reboot and power down does nothing, why is it doing this?
Pic: https://imgur.com/a/ej0ZHEH
Recovery mode Unsuccessful Error- https://imgur.com/a/TvyNtjO
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What is the fix for this? Reboot and power down does nothing, why is it doing this?
Pic: https://imgur.com/a/ej0ZHEH
Recovery mode Unsuccessful Error- https://imgur.com/a/TvyNtjO
White HtC desire 626 verizon phone

What is the fix for this? Reboot and power down does nothing, why is it doing this?
Pic: https://imgur.com/a/ej0ZHEH
White HtC desire 626 verizon phone

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1927:

• Fox Film and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer were planning to merge before being called off.

1929:

• Warner Bros Pictures, Inc. called off a merge with Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation.

1956:

• Suitors including what would become Associated Artists Pictures had been bidding for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's back catalog. MGM would eventually enter the TV market themselves.

1957:

• Associated Artists Pictures almost closed a deal to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's shorts library (including the Tom and Jerry shorts) but shut it down due to the (unspecified) price tag.

1958:

• National Telefilm Associates announced plans to buy Associated Artists Pictures, which at this point was a subject of litigation. It would be United Artists who would buy them.

1971:

• 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer considered merging.

1982:

• Orion Pictures looked at buying Embassy Pictures and Allied Artists before settling in on Filmways.
• Warner Communications tried in July to buy back the rights to Metro-Goldwyn-MayeUnited Artists' pre-1950 WB library for the first time. The negotiations fell apart because of dozens of unresolved points, probably relating to the oldest Warner Bros. films. The second time was successful 14 years later with the Turner merger.

1984:

• Reliance Insurance attempted to take over Disney.

1985:

• Turner attempted to take over the Columbia Broadcasting System for $5.4 billion.
• Viacom was looking to buy 50% of MGM/UA from Turner.

1987:

• Carolco Pictures attempted to buy Orion Pictures and Media Home Entertainment.
• NBC considered buying the Turner Broadcasting System.

1989:

• MCA offered to buy Disney.
• Bill Cosby tried to buy a stake in NBC.
• Jim Henson tried to sell the Muppets to Disney for $150 million.
• Before Time Warner, Paramount Communications, which just rose up from Gulf+Western planned to merge with Time Magazine before the latter went with Warner Communications.
• Viacom itself even planned to merge with Gulf+Western, 5 years before making a full-on successful buyout.
• Viacom was even in talks with MCA Inc., the owner of Universal Studios, according to the same article.
• Ted Turner somehow tried to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer again, this time including the United Artists side.
  • Qintex (which would later become Seven Media) also planned to buy MGM/UA for A$1.5 billion.

1991:

• In March, Brøderbund ended merger talks with Sierra On-Line, and given that date, it most likely started plans in the previous year.
• Turner's New Line Cinema looked into buying Orion, which would also be followed by the interests of Republic Pictures, Savoy Pictures, the American Broadcasting Company, and Polygram.

1992:

• MCA and Hallmark were originally the buyers for Hanna-Barbera but got outbid by Turner, which merged with Time Warner.

1993:

• In September, QVC tried a hostile $9.6 billion bid for Paramount Communications before a lawsuit came in, and lost to a $9.85 billion bid from Viacom in February.

1994:

• Bell Atlantic planned to buy Tele-Communications Inc. for $33 billion. TCI would later head for AT&T 5 years later.
• Time Warner Communications tried to buy NBC from General Electric for $2 to 2.5 billion.

1995:

• News Corporation, MCA, Time Warner Communications and Cinergi placed bids for Carolco Pictures before Le Studio Canal+ took over.
• Brøderbund bid for the original The Learning Company, before SoftKey bought them and adopted their name. They would buy Brøderbund in 1998.

1996:

• Before fatefully settling its eyes upon Sierra On-Line and Davidson & Associates (Blizzard, Animation Magic, and Knowledge Adventure), Comp-U-Card International, or more unfortunately named, CUC's Walter Forbes had considered a larger company that consisted of not just Sierra and Davidson, but also Brøderbund and LucasArts.
• After having Broadway Video's family library for dinner, Golden Books planned to buy out Nelvana.
• Microsoft nearly acquired Davidson & Associates (Blizzard) on the first try, but they lost to Comp-U-Card. In December 1997, CUC merged with HFS, and the new company was renamed Cendant, which would suffer a big accounting scandal.
• British Telecom, who owned a partial stake since 1994, bid $22 billion for MCI.
• For a year, Polygram attempted to buy out Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Samuel Goldwyn.

1997:

• GTE, which eventually merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon 3 years later, bid $28 billion for MCI. Eventually, Worldcom kicked in.
• GoodTimes Interactive planned to buy MicroProse for $250 million before letting Hasbro Interactive take it in. Coincidentally, both GoodTimes AND Hasbro Interactive would be bought out by Infogrames (later Atari SA) in 1999 and 2001, respectively.
• Epic Pictures had offers to be bought by Artisan, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Disney before PolyGram succeeded to buy it. PolyGram would eventually sell it to Metro-Goldwyn-MayeOrion over a year later.

1998:

• Microsoft tried to acquire Davidson & Associates (Blizzard) for the second time from Cendant, but they were beaten by Havas, which was owned by Vivendi.
• Viacom's Paramount Pictures offered to buy French art house studio CiBy 2000 for 500 million francs, or roughly $80 million in USD. The founder's widow, however, refused, and the catalog was dispersed between TF1, MK2, and several companies. Thirty-two years later, Paramount would get an arthouse-type film studio: Miramax.

1999:

• MCI Worldcom tried to buy Sprint for $129 billion. After a 2001 scandal, Worldcom (name since 2000) was renamed to MCI Inc., which would get bought by Verizon in 2006. Sprint merged with T-Mobile US 14 years after MCI went to Verizon.
• Global Crossing offered to buy US West for $37 billion before Qwest outbid them. Coincidentally, the rest seems to have been a big wave of all coming together, as Global Crossing (after a bankruptcy in 2002) would get bought by Level 3 in 2011, which itself would be bought in 2016 by CenturyLink WHO MERGED with Qwest back in 2010.
• Artisan Entertainment and Canal+ were speculated to pick up PolyGram Filmed Entertainment.
• Two years before the release of the Xbox, Microsoft approached Nintendo about buying them. The deal was that they would make the hardware for Nintendo, but the latter's executives "laughed their asses off."
  • They also tried to buy Squaresoft, Electronic Arts, and Midway around this time.
• CanWest Global attempted to acquire NetStar (which consisted of TSN and Discovery Canada), but was vetoed by ESPN. CTV would eventually buy it.
• Francis Ford Coppola planned to buy United Artists from MGM.

2000:

• Activision and partial owner Nintendo bid for Rareware until Microsoft bought them out 2 years later.
• Netflix offers to be bought by Blockbuster for $50 million, but they decline.
• Warner Music Group tried to buy British music label EMI for $20 billion but canceled the merger after pressure. Info here. After EMI's bankruptcy in 2011, Warner would buy Parlophone from it for $765 million, about 40% of EMI's record label.

2001:

• Sesame Workshop was put up for sale, with speculated buyers being Viacom, AOL Time Warner, The Walt Disney Company, and Classic Media.
  • The Jim Henson Company was also up for sale to The Walt Disney Company, Viacom, HIT Entertainment, AOL Time Warner, Haim Saban, and Classic Media.
• Chris-Craft (involved in the United Paramount Network) offered to be bought by Viacom for $3.1 billion until News Corp came in.
• Before NBC came in, the bidders of Telemundo were Viacom, The Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, and AOL Time Warner.

2002:

• Viacom and USA Network were originally speculated to buy Fox Family Worldwide before it was sold by News Corp to The Walt Disney Company.

2003:

• Emtv tried to sell The Muppets to Sesame Workshop and ClassicMedia.
• Before Lionsgate took the shot, Marvel and Miramax were placing a bid to pick up Artisan.
• Viacom, Liberty Media Corp, News Corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Barry Diller were also bidding to buy Universal Studios and its theme parks.

2004:

• Comcast tried to buy Disney for $66 billion.
• Take-Two Interactive Software considered buying Vivendi Universal Games for $1 billion, which was below what Vivendi Universal wanted. Vivendi Games, after its parent company stripped itself of Universal Studios to make NBC Universal, would merge with Activision Publishing four years later to create Activision Blizzard, now part of Microsoft.
• In June, an unnamed financier offered $10 million for TheFacebook, the first of many attempts over the next three years.
  • Friendster also offered to buy them, according to documents seen by SAI Global.
  • A couple of Google execs visited Facebook's office to see if there was a way to work with Zuckerberg or perhaps even buy his company.
• 2 years after Kirk Kerkorian put Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer up for sale, Time Warner emerged as a bidder for the studio. The bid wasn't unexpected, as Ted Turner was the largest shareholder. After all, his Turner Entertainment Group had risen to success through its ownership of the pre-May 1986 library, which had been acquired by the bidder when they merged with Turner eight years prior.
• Casey-Werner was looking to sell itself to a large media company but would later decide against selling. The potential suitors were General Electric/Vivendi's NBC Universal and the first incarnation of Viacom, which owned CBS.
• Channel 4 considered merging with Channel 5 for nine months before calling it off. Five would later get bought by RTL Group.

2005:

• Viacom offered to buy out TheFacebook for $75 million; the deal would have Mark Zuckerburg earn $35 million "on the spot".
  • MySpace's CEO Chris DeWolfe also visited Mark and his team to buy them.
  • NBC Universal's NBC execs stopped by "for a peek" this year.
  • In the fall, Mark Zuckerberg flew to New York to meet with Viacom CEO Tom Freston. Tom would pitch all sorts of synergies to Mark between MTV and Facebook.
• Before creating an alliance consisting of Pandemic Studios and BioWare, Elevation Partners planned to buy out Eidos Interactive before SCi (no, not Sony Computer Interactive) stepped in and bought them in May. The Pandemic and BioWare alliance would get bought by Electronic Arts 2 years later, with the former studio shutting down two years later.
• Five months before Viacom purchased Dreamworks SKG, there were rumors that NBC Universal would buy the then-independent studio for $2.5 billion. Dreamworks Pictures already used Universal's film distribution and home entertainment divisions to distribute their products.

2006:

• In January, News Corporation's Ross Levinsohn wanted to buy Facebook but was worried the deal might not keep up its growth.
  • Viacom sent the company a $1.5 billion offer--$800 million in cash up front, the rest a payout later. In this case, it's said it "almost sold."
  • In June, Yahoo! offered $1 billion, only to... lower it to $850 million after announcing horrible Q2 earnings.
    • In the fall, they suggested they would pay $1 billion or more.
  • In the middle of the year, AOL's CEO Johnathan Miller wanted to buy the company, convincing Time Inc.'s CEO to come in on the deal they took to their parent company Time Warner. A detailed plan would have AOL sell MapQuest and Tegic, while Time Inc. would sell IPC. Together, they'd offer $1 billion-plus.
• At least according to the YouTuber Hook: before Google came in, the bidders for YouTube were News Corporation, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and even Viacom, the last of which, after the Google purchase, would coldly claim YouTube infringed copyright, losing in the long end, and, after a CEO change, bought VidCon.
• In November, National Transcommunications Limited (or NTL for short) approached ITV plc with a merger bid. However, it would get blocked when British Sky Broadcasting (now Sky UK) bought roughly 18% of ITV for £940 million ($117.3 million in US dollars).
  • RTL Group, who owned Channel 5 at the time, also bid at one point; the plan would have seen RTL acquiring Sky's stake in ITV plc (with the aim of further acquisitions of shares in the future) in exchange for BSkyB taking full control of Channel 5.

2007:

• Google offered to buy Facebook.
  • Microsoft also offered to buy a small stake in the platform at a $15 billion valuation, then have the option, every six months, to buy another 5 percent. The complete takeover would've been well within five to seven years. While it never happened, they did buy 1.6% of the company for about $250 million, a deal which set their value at $15 billion.

2008:

• A reverse merger deal between DHX Media and Entertainment One was considered.
• Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo! for $47.5 billion until the latter let Google display its ads on the site.
• There were later debunked rumors of Viacom buying Take-Two Interactive, around the time of the next one:
• Electronic Arts even tried to buy Take-Two Interactive until September.
• France Télécom (present-day Orange) planned to buy Swedish telco TeliaSonera for $40 billion, but both could not come to an agreement.
• Square Enix planned to buy Tecmo, but the latter insisted on a merger of equals with Koei.

2009:

• Lionsgate announced plans on February 1 to buy Summit Entertainment, but 2 days later, the plans fell through. Lionsgate would end up purchasing Summit in 2012.
• Before Comcast came in, Time Warner and News Corporation were originally interested in buying NBC Universal from General Electric and Vivendi.
• News Corporation, Time Warner, Amir Malin's Qualia Capital, and Lionsgate Entertainment were bidding for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Holdings during its bankruptcy. Time Warner already owned the pre-May 1986 MGM library, had enough cash reserves, and co-produced the Hobbit films with the studio. News Corporation's 20th Century Fox, meanwhile, was Metro Goldwyn Mayer's home entertainment distributor at the time.

2010:

• News Corporation made a plan for the takeover of British Sky Broadcasting (already owning 39.1% until then) in June for 700 pounds per share for the remaining 60.9% shares until two turning points came: the removal of regulatory approval from Vincent Cable in December, and the more infamous 2011 News of the World phone hacking incident, which caused the bid to fall to its face.
• In a part 2, two more bidders, Reliance Entertainment (about $1.8 billion) and Relativity Media (about $1.6 billion) went onboard for MGM Holdings. But by November 3rd, MGM Holdings filed bankruptcy and emerged almost a month later when the Federal Bankruptcy Court approved the reorganization plan.

2011:

• AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile US for $39 billion.
• Hulu found itself in an unsolicited offer that was said to involve Google and Yahoo!. Ultimately, none of the bidders offered an amount satisfactory to its owners.
• World Wrestling Entertainment and the UFC were in separate talks to buy G4 until UFC went into a deal with Fox and WWE built its network.
• Before Mattel chipped in, the other bidders planning to buy HiT Entertainment from Apax Partners were The Walt Disney Company, the second incarnation of Viacom, rival Hasbro, ClassicMedia (which would be bought by Dreamworks Animation, which is now a Comcast company), Chorion, and Saban Brands.

2012:

• CBS was also rumored to buy Sony Pictures from Sony.
• People make a half-truth of an NYT article about Valve into "EA tried to buy Valve."

2013:

• Facebook's Instagram attempted to buy Snapchat for $3 billion in cash due to the latter's introduction of Stories. 3 years later, Instagram made their own Stories.
• Yahoo! considered buying either Netflix or Hulu until they fatefully decided upon Tumblr for $1.1 billion.
  • DirecTV and Time Warner also bid for Hulu.
• Time Warner was stated to be one of the buyers of THQ until its bankruptcy in the same year, followed by Nordic Games buying its trademark in 2014.
  • ZeniMax Media also made a $26.3 million bid for THQ's Relic Entertainment before Sega came in.
• Dish Network considered buying Sprint for $25.5 billion.
• RTL Group's Fremantle attempted to buy out All3Media.
• Microsoft was negotiating to purchase HTC, a fact revealed by former Nokia chairman Risto Siilasmaa during an interview with the Helsingin Sanomat, or Hesari. Microsoft would later buy Nokia's mobile phone business that year.
  • On the topic of mobile phones, Lenovo planned to buy Blackberry Limited, but the Canadian government blocked the deal due to security concerns because prominent members of governments around the world have used Blackberries themselves. They would later buy Motorola Mobility from Google in January 2014 for $2.91 billion.

2014:

• 21st Century Fox offered an $80 billion bid for Time Warner, but a potential CNN spinoff was one of the reasons why it became unattractive and fell.
• Hasbro planned to buy DreamWorks Animation to form Hasbro-Dreamworks, two years before Comcast went in.
  • SoftBank was also planning to buy Dreamworks Animation for $3.4 billion.
• Comcast tried to buy Time Warner Cable for $45.2 billion but faced a ton of madness to the point of abandonment.
• BT, ITV plc, Channel 4, Comcast (through NBCUniversal), Endemol, Time Warner, Viacom, Scripps Network Interactive, Saban Capital Group, and a joint bid of BSkyB and Discovery Communications were all bidders reportedly interested in acquiring Channel 5. Viacom won.

2015:

• There were some fears of Yahoo! buying Dailymotion from Orange, which were soon quelled by Vivendi's purchase of the site.
• Apple had considered buying TimeWarner.

2016:

• Before Viacom bought Telefe from Telefonica, Time Warner and the Cisneros Group were bidding for the network.
• 21st Century Fox tried a $32.5 billion bid for Sky until they were bought by Disney. Comcast eventually kicked in and bought Sky.
• Vivendi attempted a bid to buy out Ubisoft for $6.4 billion before ending the hostile takeover bid 2 years later. Today, Ubisoft is partially owned by Tencent.
• Disney somehow planned to merge with Time Warner before AT&T went into negotiations.
• Activision Blizzard's CEO Bobby Kotick somehow considered buying TimeWarner before AT&T took it.
• National Amusements sends a letter to both CBS Corporation and Viacom asking them to merge back. It's declined... for now.
• ITV plc placed a £1 billion ($1.3 billion USD) offer to buy eOne, which they rejected. Hasbro bought them for $4 billion in 2019.
• The Walt Disney Company planned to buy Twitter but decided not because there were a substantial amount of bots.
  • Microsoft, Salesforce, and Google were also said to bid for Twitter.
• Viacom tried to sell a stake of Paramount Pictures to Dalian Wanda, but it fell through, thankfully.
• Spotify was rumored to be looking into buying SoundCloud. It would be complementary as Spotify targets signed artists, and SoundCloud targets indies.

2017:

• 22 companies comprising but not limited to Viacom, Miramax, Ronald Wayne Burkle's Yucaipa, Lionsgate, A&E, Sony, and MGM all placed bids for The Weinstein Company.
• Viacom was going to take in Scripps Networks Interactive before Discovery Communications came through with a $12 billion outbid.
• Comcast, Sony, and Verizon were the other bidders for 21st Century Fox's assets. Comcast's bid persisted until July 2018, leaving it to The Walt Disney Company in March 2019.
• Tribune Media announced its sale to Sinclair Broadcast Group, but 15 months later, they were sued for a breach of contract. They would merge with future CW majority owner Nexstar Media Group for $4.1 billion.
• Hasbro attempted to buy Lionsgate.

2018:

• Viacom, CBS (both would re-merge in 2019), Verizon, Comcast, Amazon (later would buy MGM in 2022), Sony, and Hasbro again were speculated to buy Lionsgate, and there were rumors that a combined CBS-Viacom would buy out the studio, with Vice Chairman Michael Burns implying in an interview with CNBC that Lionsgate, CBS, and Viacom all merge.
• Google was eyeing Epic Games before starting their own cloud service called "Project Stream", later named Stadia, which lasted until 2023.

2019:

• Univision was speculated to be bought by ViacomCBS in articles like this, before Televisa (sort of) came in 2 years later, to form TelevisaUnivision.
• Before Viacom re-merged with CBS, there were rumors of the latter entity buying Starz from Lionsgate.
• Before ViacomCBS kicked in, the bidders for a 50% stake in Miramax were the second incarnation of Viacom, Lionsgate (which had the home video rights to Miramax, at least in the United States), and Spyglass Media Group, who had been the owner of The Weinstein Company's library a year ago. Spyglass was the first to exit talks, followed by Lionsgate a month later. After two months, Viacom went out of the discussion until the re-merge with CBS Corporation meant they would resume buyout talks with Miramax.
• ViacomCBS was also speculated to buy Discovery pre-announcement of the Warner Bros Discovery deal two years later.
• Continuing on with the post-merger 'nundrum, ViacomCBS was also rumored to buy Sony Pictures and even Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• Xerox planned until 2020 to buy out Hewlett-Packard for $33.5 (later $35.0 in the second bid) billion. Hewlett-Packard indicated it would make its counteroffer for Xerox.

2020:

• Microsoft not only (and this was very publicized) tried to buy Tiktok, but almost tried to buy out Capcom, Nintendo, and even Warner Bros. Games.
• Apple and Netflix were rumored to buy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
• Take-Two Interactive was going to buy Codemasters for $994 million and assign it under 2K, before being trumped by Electronic Arts with a billion-dollar bid.
• ViacomCBS initially planned to sell Simon and Schuster to Penguin Random House but ended up in a blockage two years later.
  • Before that announcement, News Corp (HarperCollins) and Vivendi (Editis) were said to be the other bidders for S&S.

Around this time, Lionsgate made an unsolicited offer to merge Starz with ViacomCBS' Showtime.
2021:

• Comcast had some plans to buy Activision Blizzard, at least according to Puck.
• In a better-known attempt, they considered spinning off NBCUniversal and merging it with Electronic Arts, which sadly never materialized.
• Comcast was speculated to merge with ViacomCBS after the announcement of the Warner-Discovery deal, which would only get churned down to SkyShowtime for specific regions.
• Bagdasarian Productions has been reported to have put itself up for sale for about $300 million, with Paramount Global (who has home entertainment rights and Nickelodeon airs the current show) being the most likely bidder.
• Microsoft was interested in acquiring Zynga before it was sold to Take-Two Interactive Software.
• Microsoft was also seriously planning to buy out some of over a hundred developers and nine publishers, and also considered Sega, Square Enix, and IO Interactive in an April 2021 slideshow given out this year's ruling by the FTC on ActivBliz.
• Lionsgate was planning for as long as into the next year to buy STX.

2022:

• Fox Corporation and News Corp were going to merge, only to get called off.
• There were the marathonical rumors of Apple, Disney, and even Amazon buying out Electronic Arts.
• The Washington Post was looking to buy Wordle before The New York Times Company became the buyer.

2023:

• Playtika tried to buy Rovio for $813 million before Sega Sammy took the helm.
• Comcast was speculated to buy out World Wrestling Entertainment before Endeavor Group came in.
  • They were also rumored to buy the remaining 67% of Hulu from The Walt Disney Company, until it became the other way around.
• Legendary, Fremantle, and GoDigital Media Group were bidding to buy Entertainment One from Hasbro until Lionsgate won the bidding.
• In the finale of the Simon and Schuster sale, the other bidder besides Kohlberg Kravis and Roberts was News Corp's HarperCollins.
• Paramount Global planned to sell BET to people including Byron Allen, Shaquille O'Neal, and 50 Cent, until deciding that the networks were a core asset.

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Disclaimer: Keep in mind that even though there are reliability issues with the Galaxy Note7 and the Galaxy Fold (2019) and I did experience some very minor bugs/issues with my Samsung Galaxy products, I have not experienced any major issues over the 11 years using various Samsung Galaxy devices, even the Note7, which was recalled due to the fact that numerous Note7s were exploding, and due to the recall, I had to abruptly switch over to the S7 Edge.
I did try my best to have as comprehensive of a review as possible, and therefore, the post was very long, and therefore, I did have a TL;DR section on the bottom. Even though Samsung does several things better than iPhone such as the reasons listed below, there are many things Apple does better than Samsung such as more consistent and longer software/security updates, standby times, battery life (mostly in the first 1-2 years of usage), third party apps (namely social media integration), performance, etc. Also, I typically use my iPhones for medium usage such as hotspot, listen to music, take photos/short videos, browse, etc, and my Samsung products are used for much heavier tasks like create and edit YouTube tech review videos/vlogs, use Reddit/Discord, browse extensively, watch videos, play Fortnite and other extensive games, join several Zoom meetings when I am out and about, and video chat with some friends and I am no Samsung sheep who hates on Apple users as I do like both platforms as both have their benefits and weaknesses.
Also, this post is biased towards higher end Samsung Galaxy phones (S/Note) and not representative towards Android as a whole due to the fact that all my Android daily drivers have been higher end Samsung Galaxy phones (as seen in the bottom), and that the vast majority of Android users use lower end/mid-range phones as opposed to the vast majority of iPhones, which are premium. That said, I do buy phones from other Android vendors (LG, HTC, Sony, Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, Realme, Oneplus, Nothing, Google Pixel, Meizu, Vivo, Asus, Lenovo, Motorola, Blu, ZTE, Alcatel, Nokia, etc) as well as mid-range and budget phones (like the Galaxy A51, Galaxy A11, A03s, Moto E6, Moto G Power 2022, etc), but all of them were either review units that have been returned, or are kept in the drawer as collection units (most phones in my collection are older Android flagships (mostly pre-2018 and bought on eBay or Swappa for a low price) or budget/mid-range units I buy from Walmart).

Introduction

I (21M) have been using Samsung Galaxy devices for 11 years, with my first Android/Samsung Galaxy device being the Samsung Galaxy Nexus (got the Galaxy Nexus in January of 2012) and with me currently daily driving the S22 Ultra (since May 2022).
I have been using iPhones for more than 12 years, with my first iPhone being the iPhone 4 (got the iPhone 4 in December of 2010 as a 9-year-old boy studying in Russia due to my passions with technology as well as programming/app development) and with me currently daily driving the iPhone 14 Pro Max (since September 2022) and the iPhone SE (2020) as a secondary iPhone for iOS development (since March 2022).
Here is my daily driver history:
Android:

• Samsung Galaxy Nexus (bought in January 2012, traded the phone in October 2013)
• Samsung Galaxy Note3 (bought in October 2013, traded the phone in October 2014)
• Samsung Galaxy Note4 (bought in October 2014, traded the phone in September 2015)
• Samsung Galaxy Note5 (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's son (16M) in August 2016)
• Samsung Galaxy Note7 (bought in August 2016, recalled in October 2016, traded in for S7 Edge)
• Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (bought in October 2016, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in April 2017 after he broke his iPhone 6 Plus)
• Samsung Galaxy S8+ (bought in April 2017, sold to my cousin's son in Vietnam (29M) in April 2018)
• Samsung Galaxy S9+ (bought in April 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (40M) in March 2019, with him giving me his S7 Edge)
• Samsung Galaxy S10+ (bought in March 2019, gave to my sister (21F) in March 2020 via mail, making the A50 as her secondary phone)
• Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra (bought in March 2020, traded the phone in February 2021)
• Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra (bought in February 2021, gave to my sister (21F) in May 2022 via mail due to her cracking her S10+ with the front suffering some cracks, got the S10+ back)
• Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra (bought in May 2022, still using it now)

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Primary iPhone:

• iPhone 4 (bought in December 2010, sold to Vietnam's used market in October 2011)
• iPhone 4S (bought in October 2011, traded the phone in September 2012)
• iPhone 5 (bought in September 2012 right after moving to the US, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2013)
• iPhone 5S (bought in September 2013, sold to my cousin (39F) in September 2014)
• iPhone 6 (bought in September 2014, sold the phone on eBay in September 2015)
• iPhone 6S (bought in September 2015, sold to my cousin's daughter (17F) in October 2016)
• iPhone 7 Plus (bought in September 2016, sold the phone on eBay in November 2017)
• iPhone X (bought in November 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in September 2018)
• iPhone XS Max (bought in September 2018, sold to my cousin's husband (55M) in October 2019 with him giving me his iPhone X to help use that towards my iPhone 11 Pro Max)
• iPhone 11 Pro Max (bought in October 2019, sold to my cousin (53F) in November 2020 with her giving me her iPhone 7 Plus to use as a spare device)
• iPhone 12 Pro Max (bought in November 2020, device started breaking down, so I traded the phone in December 2021, initially planned to keep it for longer)
• iPhone 13 Pro Max (bought in December 2021, sold to my cousin (53F) in September 2022 after complaints that her iPhone 11 Pro Max has poor battery and several bugs, with her giving me her iPhone 11 Pro Max)
• iPhone 14 Pro Max (bought in September 2022, still using it now)

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Secondary iPhone (mostly for iOS app development, listening to music, not including any iPhone/smartphones I bought on eBay for a collection):

• iPhone 5 (September 2015-November 2017): my cousin's husband (55M) upgraded from an iPhone 6 to a Galaxy S6 Edge+ and decided to give his iPhone 6 to my cousin (53F) due to him preferring Android over iOS (he kept the S6 Edge+ until May 2020 when he bought the S20+ and then he gave his S6 Edge+ to me in May 2020 via mail, but between 2017-2020, this acted as his 2nd phone as he was daily driving the iPhone X/XS Max mentioned above)
• iPhone 6S (November 2017-November 2020): my cousin's daughter (17F) upgraded from the 6S to the 7 Plus, along with both her parents (55M, 53F) not only due to the family switching from T-mobile to Verizon but also due to her cracking my old iPhone 6S, which caused her parents not only to replace the screen but also the battery)
• iPhone 7 Plus (November 2020-March 2022): my cousin (53F) received my iPhone 11 Pro Max, but since the iPhone 6S fell off my bike mount a month before, it cracked, and since the battery is so horrendous on the 6S, my cousin (53F) decided to give me her iPhone 7 Plus and I decided to take the 6S to the Apple Store in Cambridge MA to recycle it
• iPhone SE (2020) (since March 2022): Even though my cousin, and later I took very good care of the iPhone 7 Plus, the phone started breaking down on several fronts: the silent switch, charging port pins, and even battery started to die hard, and plus, since the phone is getting unsupported, I started deciding on the iPhone SE. After finding out the iPhone SE 3 was $429 and finding out I could get a prepaid iPhone SE 2 on AT&T for $150 ($50 plan+$15 activation fee but I cancelled auto pay immediately after buying the phone), I got the brand-new SE 2 instead. Nowadays, the battery started to fall apart (even though the battery is currently at 93% capacity) and even though this phone is not in a beta, there are a lot of bugs even on 16.4.

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Things my Samsung Galaxy does better than my iPhone

There are many things that Samsung Galaxy phones and other Android phones do better than iPhones, including the fact that on Android:

• notifications are not cluttered in the lock-screen unlike on iOS. However, iOS notifications are always delivered at least 1-2 minutes earlier than Android
• Android is more customisable than iOS and Android is an open-source mobile operating system
• Many new features such as reverse wireless charging, in screen fingerprints, foldable phones, 5G, triple camera setup, phablet size phones,
• there is a real back button on Android
• No need to use iTunes; you could just transfer music and photos/videos between your computer and phone without the hassle of iTunes
• Some Samsung Galaxy phones (S1-S20 excluding the S6/Note5) have microSD and older Samsung Galaxy phones have removable batteries
• Some Samsung Galaxy phones in certain markets have dual sim support, but since e-SIM was introduced, first with the Pixel 2, and later with the iPhone XS, dual sim is less of an advantage
• There are a lot of options, including the M/J series for budget conscious buyers, the A series for the average folk in many countries, the S/Note series for power-users, business users for extra productivity (mostly the Note series) and phone enthusiasts (like me), and the Z series for certain business users for extra productivity and for Flexers
• On my Samsung Galaxy devices, I could share the Wi-Fi password to other phones using the QR code; on iPhones, I could only share the Wi-Fi connection with other iPhones
• Samsung Galaxy devices support split screen view and pop up view, but these two features are restricted to the iPad, and iPhones only support picture in picture video

However, there are many lesser-known things that my Samsung Galaxy phones do better than my iPhones (based on my experience over the past 11 years), and some might be controversial:
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• iPhone batteries start to massively degrade after a new iPhone and iOS version comes out

Even though the iPhone batteries are mostly very good during the first year or two of usage and have extremely good standby compared to Android phones due to software optimisation, by around July 2016, my iPhone 6S's battery is starting to fail, and I did need to rely on battery packs for my iPhones to survive as the iPhone 6S's battery would go from 100-0 after 4-6 hours of heavy use. My cousins did replace the iPhone 6S battery in October of 2017, but by October 2020 (please note according to battery health, IIRC, the 6S stands at 85%), on iOS 14, the iPhone 6S would drain from 90 to 35 in as little as 10 minutes and sometimes, during cold weather, the iPhone 6S's battery (on iOS 14) would die at 30%. Turns out this is not only an issue on my 6S as I bought a 6S on eBay in 2021 for my smartphone collection and that phone (with 80% capacity) also behaved the same, draining from 80 to 25 in around 10 minutes. The iPhones before the 6S also had a poor battery life after a year in my experience, and even though the iPhone 7 Plus, X, XS Max, and 11 Pro Max's battery holds better than the 6S due to the batteries being bigger, the batteries still started to become bad after 1-2 years.
My iPhone 12 Pro Max (I got rid of it in December of 2021 after it accidentally fell out from my nightstand drawer and the back cracked a month before) started seeing its battery fail sometime in September 2021, when the 13 Pro Max came out. Say I leave the house at 10:00 and were to return home at 19:00. By 17:00, with medium usage + hotspot, the iPhone's battery would have depleted to around 20 percent. Plus, my iPhones typically consume more battery if devices are connected to hotspot than my Samsung Galaxies are.
Also, I did receive the Galaxy S7 Edge (2019), Samsung Galaxy S9+ (earlier this month as my cousin's husband upgraded to the S23+), and the Samsung Galaxy S10+ (last year), and given that I would sell these phones on the second hand market, I would test the phones for a week or two to see the phone's condition before assessing it and selling it on the second hand market. What I found is that even though the S10+ cracked and therefore, I donated it rather than sold it, all three phones seem to have solid battery, considering their ages. The S7 Edge with its 3600 mAh battery under heavy use after 3 years would go about for 6-8 hours before needing a recharge, and my S9+ would go about for around 5-6 hours as well before hitting down to 20% of battery (that is after 5 years and given the fact my cousin's husband is a power user), and even though the S10 cracked, it would go for 8-10 hours under heavy usage before draining to around 20%. I also got back my Note5 from 2015 once my cousin's son upgraded to my cousin (50M)'s S8 Active in 2019 once my cousin upgraded to the Note10+, and even on that phone, the battery is still very good considering its age and its 3000 mAh size, doing around 4-6 hours going down from 100-20.
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• My Samsung devices have proven more reliable as a whole than many of my iPhones

Even though all the 4 Samsung Galaxy S phones I have repossessed were slightly slow compared to when they were first purchased, all of them, apart from the front cracks on the S10+, are still highly reliable, and according to my usage as well as from the 4 people who have used my phones, they have commented that the phones I gave to them gave them minimal issues and they JUST WORK. Fun fact: during my ownership, I have never experienced any major problems with any of my Samsung phones. However, the only issues are minor bugs that could be fixed with a software update and if they couldn't be fixed, they either are caused by the third party app or the phone OEM, but have no impact on the usability of the phone. For example, starting around November, my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra had a minor bug of which every few hours, the speaker (not headphone) volume would go down itself from full to about 70-80% without me even touching the phone and without telling me (I don't know if it is to prevent deafness or if it is a bug), and even with numerous updates, this still remains (it is sort of inconvenient but I typically fix it by raising the phone's speaker volume to full).
Fun fact, my cousin (28M) switched from the iPhone 7 Plus to the Samsung Galaxy S10+ in March of 2019 and is now currently using a Galaxy S23 Ultra. From his 4-year long experience using just the Galaxy S10+ (he bought the ceramic colour with 512GB of storage and currently his father is using the S10+), even though he is a power user with him customising the phone with themes, being a heavy user, and having cracked his S10+ last year, the phone was still extremely reliable, working fully as intended, apart from the battery, which has been shortened to 6 hours of heavy usage before dying.
My iPhones however, were not so bright. Even though pre-2015 iPhones, iPads, and Macs are rock solid during my time using it and will probably last a long time (> 12 years), since the 6S, there have been some phones which have showed issues here and there, sometimes within the first year of ownership. As for the iPhone 6S, it is basically only the battery, which has been extremely bad after a year and the fact it would sometimes shut off at 30% during cold weather.
Starting with the iPhone 7 Plus however, and there started to be a lot of problems. Even though my iPhone 7 Plus didn't show any problems during my ownership (I sold mine on eBay and don't know how it fares) and even though my cousin took good care of her 7 Plus, when I got her 7 Plus in November of 2020 (she got the phone brand new at Verizon in November 2017), the silent switch started to wear down during my ownership and get stuck, meaning it is hard to turn on silent switch, the charging port pins started to wear, making it very hard to charge the phone or connect the phone to the computer, and the battery started to struggle real hard.
Starting with the iPhone XS Max and there started to be real struggles. Even though I didn't see any problems with either the iPhone XS Max and 11 Pro Max during my ownership and took good care of these two phones, when these two phones got passed to their second owners, problems started to arise. For the XS Max, in May of 2020, it got bricked, and it wouldn't turn on even if he plugged it in the charging cable or through iTunes, and my cousin's husband had to bring it to service, and that got him to purchase an S20+ (he currently uses the S22+ by the way) given he prefers Android over iOS, and after fixing the XS Max, he gave it to his daughter (17F), who is his only child. For the 11 Pro Max however, the phone's battery drained fast (typically from 90 during the morning at 7:00 to about 10 by 14:30 under medium to heavy usage as she is not much of a power user) and my cousin always had to rely on the charger, and plus, there are issues of connecting Bluetooth devices as well as with calls and volume whilst connected to Bluetooth devices, and my cousin always complained about these issues and even though I did attempt to fix, the issues didn't get resolved (I am tech savvy by the way, so I could get through a lot of issues, such as reset my bricked iPad using iTunes, etc.).
And now onto my iPad Pro 9.7. I bought the iPad in June of 2016, and even though I used it mostly for watching YouTube videos, Udemy and edX courses, the iPad started having a bricking issue in November of 2017. What happened was that I was charging and overnight, the iPad just shut itself off and never powered on again. I tried connecting it to iTunes and even though iTunes could recognise the device, whenever I reset it, errors like Error 9 keep on popping up on iTunes and it is impossible to reset, even after performing a lot of troubleshooting steps. I tried bringing it to the Apple Store, but they couldn't reset it either and they suggested that I replace the iPad Pro 9.7 with an iPad Mini 4 for $300. Then, I started taking matters into my own hands and finally resetted the iPad Pro successfully after multiple attempts in January of 2018. Six months later (in July 2018), the iPad bricked again, and I had to do the same process, and it took until September of 2018 after at least 5-10 tries for it to work again. And then in August 2020, whilst charging overnight, the iPad turned off and I thought it was toast. Turned out it was, as after countless times diagnosing the issues on iTunes, the iPad would keep on bricking after multiple reset attempts and after more than 2 years. Then, there was a miracle. In November of 2022, I finally got my iPad working again and I felt like I was very lucky, because I thought that the iPad was bricked forever and wouldn't go back on, ever.
Then, finally, it is my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I bought the phone on 20 November 2020, and by mid-September 2021, things started to go south for this phone. The top speaker started to fail and even though I cleaned it, the speaker was so muffled that I could barely hear anything from the top speaker. I brought it to the Apple Store, and they said it is a digitiser issue and they couldn't even clean it for me, and around that same time, the touchscreen started to act up. With a lot of ghost touches, it started to become very hard to use the iPhone (and keep in mind, I have never replaced the screen since I never cracked the front screen). In October 2021, the phone started to have lose cellular signal when I enter the MBTA train and still didn't recognise cellular signal for minutes after I exited the MBTA and was at least a mile from that station on my bike, but luckily, resetting network settings did fix the issue with the cellular signal however. By the time the phone accidentally fell to the ground and the back did suffer some cracks in November, I started to give up on the iPhone 12 Pro Max and in December, I upgraded to the 13 Pro Max.
Even though my Galaxy Buds and my cousin (28M)'s Galaxy Buds did not show any issues (he bought the Galaxy Buds in March 2019 and after heavy usage, it still held up very well and he even gave it to his father), all 4 of my AirPods, even the AirPods Pro 2, have shown issues and bugs here and there. My first AirPods (January 2017-July 2018) basically stopped working, and hence, I bought another pair of AirPods in July 2018 and used it until February 2022, when I dropped it in the toilet. Even though I was using the 2nd pair of AirPods half the time (July 2018-January 2020, December 2020-April 2021, November 2021-February 2022), by late 2021, the AirPods started showing major problems. First off, the battery drains so fast even indoors that it only lasted about an hour. Then, once I am outside, the right side would disconnect after only 5 minutes of usage and the left side would keep soldering on. Once it fell to the toilet, it was game over (however, I still kept the AirPods, it is just in the nightstand sitting there, and I did clean it as well). I bought the AirPods 2 in February 2022, and after 2 months, at least once every week or two, the right side would discharge, even in the case (the case is clean by the way), until it went out of battery. I tried resetting the case and putting the case to charge again, but to no avail, and it took several reset attempts for it to return to normal. The same exact scenario happened to the AirPods Pro 2, which I got in October as my cousin wanted to gift me the AirPods Pro 2, in exchange for my AirPods 2. Except that sometimes, my iPhone 14 Pro Max couldn't even connect to the AirPods Pro 2 or even recognise it. Luckily, in the past month, a lot of the issues have been alieviated, as resetting the AirPods Pro 2 did help 'charge' the other side of the AirPods and later versions of iOS 16 might have improved these bugs.
Fun fact: My sister (21F)'s first phone was a Moto G (my sister bought that phone in Christmas of 2013), and after a while, her parents decided to give her the Honor 5x in August 2016 (despite the fact my parents both use flagship iPhones/Galaxy and my oldest sister (currently 33) also uses flagship iPhones/Galaxy), and she used that as her main phone (she bought a Moto E5 in September 2018 to switch over to Cricket but used the Moto E5 as her secondary phone whilst her primary phone is the Honor 5X) all the way until July 2019 (I warned her in May that Huawei was banned in the US and that I advise her to upgrade, but the phone still worked well regardless) when she got the A50, and then in March 2020, when she got my S10+ whilst I upgrade over to the S20 Ultra, she uses an A50 as her secondary phone up until today. All in all, Her Moto G 2013, Honor 5x, A50, and Moto E5 Cruise all served her well up until the day she basically stopped using it as she upgraded to a new phone, and only shown minor bugs/issues, given the phone's price and market position, unlike some of my iPhones (ironically).
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• Hotspot doesn't always work on my iPhones, but always does on my Galaxy

I currently have two phone plans: my main Verizon phone plan with my iPhone 14 Pro Max and my secondary MetroPCS phone plan with my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. I do carry a third phone with me (without a phone plan), which is the iPhone SE 2020. Due to me not having a phone plan on my iPhone SE 2020, I do have to rely on hotspot when I am outside. For my iPhone SE 2020, I primarily use it for music streaming and to test my mobile applications, whilst my two other phones are used for more intense purposes, with me spending the most time on my Samsung.
For my iPhone 14 Pro Max and previous iPhones (iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro Max, etc), personal hotspot is very buggy. My Samsung connects just fine to the iPhone hotspot, but my iPhones don't. To preserve the battery, after several minutes, the iPhone SE would get disconnected from the iPhone 14 Pro Max hotspot (which is acceptable), but it gets worse. Even if I am currently streaming Apple Music on my iPhone SE with the screen on as well, the iPhone would disconnect from the iPhone 14 Pro Max, and it is very hard to connect it to hotspot. Sometimes, the iPhone SE would say 'Unable to join network' and others, it said 'Personal Hotspot Failure', which would force me to restart both the iPhone SE and 14 Pro Max. Now the Remote Hotspot Failure started happening since I got the 11 Pro Max in 2019, and at the time, my 16:9 phone was the iPhone 6S, and even then, there were hotspot failure problems. I restarted the 11 Pro Max, but the hotspot failure would return after a week or two. Even after resetting network settings in 2021 right before my 13 Pro Max because my iPhone 12 Pro Max would lose cellular connectivity even after I exited the MBTA tunnel and I am outside a mile from the MBTA station, once I got my 13 Pro Max, the remote hotspot failure still appears. My Samsung Galaxy over the years connects to the iPhone hotspot without any issues and would stay connected even if I am not using the phone until I basically turn off hotspot on my iPhone.
Now due to the fact connecting my iPhone SE to the iPhone hotspot is so bad, I would typically use the Samsung hotspot as a backup (keep in mind my iPhone plan gives unlimited hotspot whilst Metro only gives 5 GB). Both iPhones connect to the Samsung hotspot flawlessly, without any issues.
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• On my Samsung Galaxy phones, I can disable Wi-Fi using the Quick Settings (swipe down) menu, but for iPhones, it is less consistent

Sometimes, I don't want my main iPhone 14 Pro Max to connect to the Samsung hotspot due to it having its own data. I would turn off Wi-Fi on the control centre and after 5-10 minutes, it would reconnect the Wi-Fi, therefore wasting hotspot data on my Samsung metroPCS plan and making me mildly angry. iPhone does say turning off until tomorrow but in reality, Wi-Fi is turned on after 5-10 minutes. For Samsung, I turn off Wi-Fi on the quick settings until I turn it back on or I flick on airplane mode, which seems more intuitive in my case. However, when I am at home without any hotspot devices, whenever I use quick settings for iPhone, nearby Wi-Fi does disconnect until tomorrow
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• Connecting to Bluetooth devices is better on my Samsung Galaxy phones than my iPhones

Pretend I have two Bluetooth devices (AirPods Pro, JBL Clip 4), and I wanted to connect to the JBL speaker. On the Samsung, if I accidentally clicked on the AirPods Pro, I could click JBL Clip 4 immediately and within 5 seconds, I would be connected to the JBL Clip 4 speaker. For the iPhone however, things are not so bright, as if I were to accidentally click the AirPods Pro, I had to wait 15 seconds for Apple to search for the AirPods Pro, and then once it says it couldn't find the AirPods Pro because I left my AirPods Pro at home, that is when I could click on JBL Clip 4 and connect it. That turns a 5 second process into something like a 15-20 second process.
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• Apple Pay sometimes doesn't work on my iPhone (2 percent of the time)

On several occasions since 2021, my iPhones would sometimes not pay using Apple Pay and would fail to pay (98% of the time, Apple Pay works). Sometimes, the iPhone couldn't even detect a reader even though the reader does work. Once I use Samsung Pay on my Samsung Galaxy devices as a backup, the payment did go through and it finally worked.
Last week, I was at the MBTA station, and I was attempting to pay for the Monthly pass. Ironically, even though the reader did work, the iPhone 14 Pro Max kept on saying 'Hold near Reader', and even though I held it near the mobile payment reader for 10-15 seconds, it still didn't do anything. Fed up, after the second time, I repaid the MBTA ticket and used my S22 Ultra and the payment did go through. However, at the restaurant around 1 hour later, even though I didn't restart the iPhone, Apple Pay finally worked again as I was able to pay my meal using Apple Pay.
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• In the last several months, Automatic updates are better on my Galaxies than my iPhones

My Samsung automatic updates are set overnight, and even with airplane mode turned on during the night, my Samsungs are always up to date without ever having to go to the settings app to update the firmware to Android 13. As for iPhone, they did schedule automatic updates between 4-5 am, but in reality, automatic updates keep failing even with Wi-Fi turned on overnight. If I wanted to update my iPhones, I would typically have to manually update via settings
Update: I upgraded from 16.3.1 to 16.4 last week on my 14 Pro Max and even though I manually downloaded 16.4, overnight (even with Airplane Mode turned on, albeit Wi-Fi is also turned on), iOS 16.4 ended up being downloaded overnight automatically, so I assume 16.3.1 might have fixed the automatic update bug I have been experienced for several months.
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• Wi-Fi is far better on my Samsung Galaxy/Android phones than my iPhones, iPads, or Macs

I attended university between 2018 and 2022, and in late 2021, at university (I majored in CS by the way), my iPhones, iPads, and Macs would often struggle with Wi-Fi. My iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone 7 Plus (as of November 2021) would sometimes even outright refuse to connect to Wi-Fi and same goes with the MacBook 15' Core i9 (2019) (I have since upgraded to the M1 MBP 16 since the logic board on the MBP 2019 failed in November 2021), and if connected, at some parts of the university, they are extremely slow, and sometimes, borderline unusable. My S21 Ultra however, at the same place, worked far better and was able to load websites. Even my Windows laptop was able to load websites as well as my Galaxy A51 (I brought an A51 one day to MIT to see if the Wi-Fi issues only occurred on Apple products).
Fun fact: the Galaxy S21 Ultra was the first phone to offer Wi-Fi 6E and not even the iPhone 14 Pro Max supports this feature
Then in July 2022, during a flight from Dallas back to Boston, my iPhone 13 Pro Max and iPhone SE 2 would fail to connect to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network several times and if connected, the Wi-Fi was painfully slow and near unusable whilst my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra connected to JetBlue's Wi-Fi network just fine and worked as expected, with websites loading reasonably quick, just like at my university with the S21 Ultra.
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• USB C lasts longer than lightning connector

Finally, one thing Samsung and Android OEMs do better than Apple is the fact that many Android devices, including Samsung Galaxy devices, come with USB-C which is the future compared to Apple's ancient lightning connector (frankly, Apple now uses USB-C on most of their iPads except for the entry level iPad 9). It allows for faster charging and transfer speeds and USB-C is basically superior to lightning, which is a relic from a bygone era. Plus, USB-C seems to last longer. Whilst my lightning connectors generally worn out between 6-18 months before having inconsistent connections or connectivity issues, my USB-C connectors would keep soldering on for at least 5 years before breaking down like the lightning connectors.
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TL;DR: Even though there are many benefits to owning an iPhone over an Android device, based on my user experience, after over 11 years of using various Samsung Galaxy phones, two Samsung Galaxy Tabs, and one Galaxy Bud and after over 12 years of using various iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and AirPods, I could safely assure that there are a lot of benefits to using Samsung and Android products over iPhones, namely due to the fact that notifications, customisation, features, options, Wi-Fi, multitasking, batteries, hotspot, Bluetooth, mobile payment, etc., are better on Samsung and Android products than on iPhones, based on my user experience.

I wasn't planning to upgrade, but it was finally time. Verizon offered $1000 for my S10e, so I did a bunch of research and upgraded to the new S23+. I suggest you jump on this deal if you can. I did it directly through their site last night. The S10e has been the best phone I've owned and I never had any issues with it since purchasing it new in mid 2019. I threw my usual Nova Launcher on it and never looked back. The battery was the only real annoyance lately. It needed to be charged constantly.. like 2-3 times a day. Otherwise the phone worked great these past few years and through multiple international hiking trips. Never had a screen protector and not a single scratch or crack ever thanks to my trusty Spigen Armor case. I had one on my S7 and just ordered one for my S23+ too. Really looking forward to the upgraded processor, cameras, and bigger battery. So yeah, it's been great guys and it's crazy thinking back to all the Android phones I've had since my very first HTC Eris (before the Reddit days even)! Thanks for being an awesome community.