Loved my Droid with the slide out keyboard. After that I went to LG and had those for a while I liked being able to easily unlock the bootloader to root, plus the knock code unlock was really nice. Anymore rooting is to much of a pain and custom roms tend to break online banking. With the discount I get on the phones my carrier provides I’ve been using Samsung because of the software update policy.
If someone was to have something similar to the S26 Ultra with a slide out keyboard and similar specs and support for around 650 I would switch.
Even when I had a physical audio jack I used Bluetooth so not a huge deal to me and hasn’t been for years. MicroSD card support would be nice but I’ve got like 200GB of storage available and when I was in Mexico I transferred video to my 4TB hdd anyway. Not to mention that I could have just left the video on the MicroSD in my camera if I had one large enough but the cost wasn’t worth it.
For the junk software I just remove it via adb or Canta with Shizuku. I don’t use windows or Microsoft services so those things just go away.
Loved my Droid with the slide out keyboard. After that I went to LG and had those for a while I liked being able to easily unlock the bootloader to root, plus the knock code unlock was really nice. Anymore rooting is to much of a pain and custom roms tend to break online banking. With the discount I get on the phones my carrier provides I’ve been using Samsung because of the software update policy.
If someone was to have something similar to the S26 Ultra with a slide out keyboard and similar specs and support for around 650 I would switch.
Even when I had a physical audio jack I used Bluetooth so not a huge deal to me and hasn’t been for years. MicroSD card support would be nice but I’ve got like 200GB of storage available and when I was in Mexico I transferred video to my 4TB hdd anyway. Not to mention that I could have just left the video on the MicroSD in my camera if I had one large enough but the cost wasn’t worth it.
For the junk software I just remove it via adb or Canta with Shizuku. I don’t use windows or Microsoft services so those things just go away.
I don’t really have any brand loyalty.