My personal phone is a rooted Motorola G5 Plus. It’ a midrange phone (read: not as expensive) purchased unlocked from Amazon, and Motorola runs pretty much stock Android. They also have a factory-provided bootloader unlock if you want to root your phone. I think most of the problems people have with Androids (especially my parents
) is they use carrier-provided phones with bloatware on top of manufacturer “skins”. Stick to a basic android implementation and get good apps, not the crappy carrier- or manufacturer-developed ones.
I also have an iphone 8 provided by work. Good hardware, but suffers from the typical Apple attitude of “you will only do the things we will let you do, the way we let you do them”. FFS, could they at least provide an option of “go back to mailbox” after deleting an email, like every other mail client ever, instead of just defaulting to “advance to next message” and not giving you a choice?
I prefer most things about the android, one major reason being that I can automate a lot of things via Tasker. Vibrate mode turns on or off based on location, for example. Can’t do that on an iphone; you
have to set this manually each time through the stock interface. I really wish I could set “do not disturb” on the iphone via a more complex schedule than just fixed hours each day; I’d disable notifications on my days off.
A lot of the fancy sync-across-devices features are disabled by my employer’s security stuff so I can’t benefit from them anyway. I do use that phone for a lot of stuff but only because it has unlimited data and I share a 2GB plan with my wife on the personal phone.