You Know Who is Making Your Next Phone

A couple of 12 months in the past I shared an opinion I had concerning the state of Android smartphones and the way so lots of you appeared tired of any gadget not made by Samsung. The title was “You Dislike Every Phone Unless Samsung Makes It,” and it ran by way of all the issues that different telephone makers proceed to cope with and the way they’re primarily in charge for placing us on this place the place their telephones are simply ignored or forgotten about whereas Samsung pushes out unimaginable telephone after unimaginable telephone.

The title may need seemed like a damaging Samsung piece, nevertheless it was in actual fact an inventory of explanation why OnePlus and Motorola and Google Pixel telephones are both solid apart or shortly cancelled due to points. The conclusion was that you just dislike each telephone as a result of Samsung appears to do it proper many times, whereas the others preserve stumbling.

As we cruise deeper into 2023, it’s time to examine again in on this subject. And the rationale we’re doing so is as a result of Samsung simply launched the Galaxy S23 line, OnePlus simply launched the OnePlus 11, and Google’s Pixel 7 line took home our phone of the year honors to complete out 2022. The opposite motive, I’d argue, is as a result of Samsung’s launch appears snoozier than common whereas the Pixel 7 was (and I believe nonetheless is) largely liked from the minute it launched and even the OnePlus 11 took dwelling reward from most reviewers.

Are we seeing the beginning of a shift or am I drunk? If somebody have been to ask me which telephone to purchase right this moment, I’d most likely level first to the Pixel 7 or Pixel 7 Professional, then to Samsung’s Galaxy S23+, then the S23 Extremely, after which I’d inform them to learn each factor they presumably might concerning the OnePlus 11 to be taught its quirks. However that’s me.

So the place are you right this moment? When you have been shopping for a telephone, who makes it? Are we nonetheless going Samsung virtually each time or has Google lastly nailed it with the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional? Did OnePlus creep again into your coronary heart with the OnePlus 11? Are you trying towards the long run and a Nothing Telephone (2) powered by an actual premium chipset?