I’ve been using my current phone for about 7 years now and it’s well behind on updates and starting to fail in minor but foreboding ways so I’m looking to get a new one and was hoping people here could help me with my indecisiveness.

My greatest requirement is long term support, which immediately puts Google and Samsung at the top of the pack (Fairphone, I see you but you just aren’t supported well in Canada as far as I can tell).

My other biggest interests are display quality, battery life, and customizability. I like the 6.2"-6.3" screen size that both the Pixel 10 and S25 fall in.

I don’t care overly much about the camera beyond quite casual use and I don’t care about gaming on it at all. I don’t plan to use Graphene OS.

Given these preferences do people think one phone comes out over the other? I keep waffling back and forth. I’m also happy to hear about other android models too if someone thinks one fits the bill better that I’m unaware of.

  • ryan213@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    Thanks for bringing this up as those are my two choices as well. Lol

    Is there a Back button on the Pixel?

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        7·
        4 days ago

        You have to turn off gesture navigation (at least I did on my Pixel 8) but yeah button nav is available.

        • ryan213@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 days ago

          Thanks! My wife switched to Pixel 7 a couple of years back and that was a huge pain point.

          • doc@fedia.io
            3·
            4 days ago

            You can still change that.

            Settings > System > Gestures > Navigation Mode, then change to 3 button navigation.

    • MediumGray@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      31·
      4 days ago

      Good question, I assume that both OneUI and Pixel Android support the old three button navigation as well as gestures, but I’m not certain.

      edit: Upon looking into it I can confirm that android 16 (and its derivative presumably) support three button navigation.

      • Pycorax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        OneUI definitely does and allows you to swap the position of the back and recent apps button too, not sure if AOSP has that feature yet. That said I’m not a fan of the swipe from the edge to “go back” with gesture navigation that covers the entire edge of the screen. So I have it set up using Samsung’s gesture settings to have it cover only half the screen.