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For a smartphone, it helps to realise that almost all the specs pretty much don't matter, you can splurge more on a camera with bigger spec numbers if you really care about photos, but otherwise processor and gpu and memory and shit is basically irrelevant unless you're using your phone as your primary gaming device for whatever fucking reason.
So the real differentiator between phones is the OS. If you want iOS you get apple. If you want Android, you have to choose how you want to get raped by google and/or chang; chinkdroids have their own flavours, samsung does too, etc. A lot of phones come with preinstalled apps that you cannot uninstall unless you root your phone, so for me, a major factor is how easy it is to root - I simply won't buy a phone where you have to like email the manufacturer and wait six weeks to get admin access to your own device (let alone those that don't allow it at all). Again, the spec sheet numbers barely matter, so it's not like you lose much by avoiding some manufacturers.
A few years ago I bought a phone that runs grapheneOS, which sandboxes the google services so I don't have to run them at all most of the time. It's great. There's only one type of phone that's compatible (pixels) and people will tell you hurr the CPU in those is shit, but again, it does not fucking matter one single bit. These phones have an OS that doesn't run google (or apple) tracking services in the background 24/7, they're the only phones that do that, therefore to me that's the only phone on the market right now even worth considering.
If you don't care about privacy enough for this shit then almost any cheapo chinkphone will do. If you don't care about price and care a tiny bit about privacy, then apple is still somewhat better than google, so unironically just get an iphone.
