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Comment by RonanTheGrey | Hacker News Reader

How are you finding it? I'm planning to make the leap off iPhone once my current phone is out of warranty (2 months left) and am in the market for a high quality but not obscenely priced Android phone. Google phones seem to be the least weighed down by manufacturer crapware. The 4a is the one I'm looking at.

I do plan to flash either Lineage or some other custom ROM though.

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If you think Google's phone has less crapware, you're wrong. Try Samsung's phone and you will find Google's default apps are the crapware.

Crappy design with minimal feature set. Home app alone is unbearably uncustomizable as well.

> I do plan to flash either Lineage or some other custom ROM though.

If you get a Pixel don't do this. You'll just get worse battery life, more bugs etc.

Google clean Android is great.

One plus Nord is pretty sweet.

Yeah was just looking at the OnePlus phones for the first time today... look pretty amazing. Definitely a price premium but if it gets the job done without a Bixby button hey.. could be a winner.

I was in a need of new phone and waited for P5 announcement with my final decision.

P5 is underwhelming if not disappointing.

In the end I am a happy owner of OnePlus Nord. Shame it lack slot for expandable memory but i got a bit over 200GB on it so it should last a while. And on paper it beats every Pixel in bang for money category.

Highly recommend it.

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