Na man I love the fact that I no longer have a headphone jack, my battery can't be replaced and goes bad in a year, my processor runs super beefy and drains my battery faster, but I can charge it wirelessly. Yeah I'm with you the new era of phones are just bullshit. It feels like they're running out of cool things to make them do and change about them so they're just doing stupid stuff to try to find something that accidentally works.

I picked up a Nokia 6.1 (2018 version) about a month ago when my Pixel 1 stopped charging (the USB-C port failed) for £200.

It's a rock solid phone, runs stock android (Android One), no notch, decent enough camera, plenty of storage (for me).

I was planning on getting the Pixel 3 and keep the Nokia as a spare but I have no need to spend a grand on a phone which ostensibly doen't do anything more for me.

The current generation of flagship phones (and last years') have made absolutely staggering advances in the quality of photos taken. It's no contest whatsoever, at least for me.

Yeah. Last phone I bought was in 2015, and I haven't felt a compelling need to upgrade since then.

I have a 6S that, while it's running fine, I would like to upgrade for a better camera. But, I want to keep the same size. So, my options are to get a year old 8 or a XS. The XR and XS Max are too large. I really don't want to spend $1000 on a phone. That's absurd to me. I'll probably end up waiting another year.

I've ruled out Android out of personal preference. Not an endorsement of iOS or a condemnation of Android. Just preference.

Yeah, this specific year has been quite underwhelming.

The s8, iphone x, etc where great jumps ahead (or at least they seemed to be, due to the different form factor and all). It is understandable that the year after that feels underwhelming, but it's weird that they chose this specific moment to increase prices.

Perhaps there's a big jump coming in the following years and they're trying to make the price increase for those features more palatable through gradual increases?

I think if you were to have a really old phone (say 5 years) it would be more of an impressive jump than from one year to the next. I think it's harder to notice some of the incremental improvements being made. They can feel kind of lackluster because they're not as big as the initial innovation that smartphones brought.

if it has Qualcomm inside, the answer is definitely "yes"