not really into high end smartphones as i don’t have a usecase for those. don’t need an above average camera, if any at all. currently i am using a motorola edge 20 as my daily workhorse and overall i am not unhappy with it. Just sometimes it seriously hangs and occasionally reboots. also probably sooner or later updates will cease, i would assume.
if i was to look for a replacement in the … let’s say 400 - 600 eur/usd price range … what kind of phone would make sense to purchase? i rarely use any apps other than a browser, really. no gaming intended.
I’d say pixel. I think my next phone will be a mid range pixel. I went with a top of the range oppo last time and it’s a frustrating experience with after market products - they just don’t exist. the fast charging is brilliant but you can’t buy like a 3rd party power brick which will do VOOC fast charging. I can’t even buy an OPPO 80w charger in Australia. Want a nice case for it? no chance. So I’m going to try pixel next for the ecosystem. I had samsung previously and just couldn’t get over the blandness of them!
I’d also tend towards a Pixel, 7a probably, like @neoNgEcho mentioned. Are there any blatant cons to such a decision? What about realworld battery life?
FWIW, I can easily get a full day out of my pixel 6a. The only down-side that I perceived, having upgraded from a pixel 3a was the loss of the headphone jack (RIP) and the in-screen fingerprint reader being finicky/sub-par (which I believe is also true of the 7a)
Have you tried the setting “display > screen protector mode” this increases the sensitivity of the screen including fingerprint. Now it works in all but the brightest sunshine.