This year ASUS bowed out of the smartphone race and was added to the list of dead Android brands. In the next few years I wonder if we will still have OnePlus, Nothing, or Motorola. But for right now, what dead brand do you miss the most?
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What Android brand do you miss most?
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I would say that Blackberry. They made some good keyboard looking phones back then. Now there are a couple of really good options to come, Click Phone and Uni hertz Elite.
Also, I miss those extravagant designs from Sony as the Xperia U and the Sola (always loved the red one).
I like their phones now but they are just to expensive and just don't offer a plus to buy them over a Pixel for example.
Also, I miss those extravagant designs from Sony as the Xperia U and the Sola (always loved the red one).
I like their phones now but they are just to expensive and just don't offer a plus to buy them over a Pixel for example.
Motorola will probably survive. Their niche is budget smartphones and Lenovo purchased IBM's business so they are safe from Trump. OnePlus is 60/40 at this point.
Tough one. LG and HTC put out some great devices. I really miss Nokia but that’s more related to S60 and windows phone devices and the N900 which is one of my favorite all time devices. Beautiful hardware and software. It’s a shame Nokia didn’t put more resources into the development of the Maemo and devices like the N900. I still miss that keyboard.
Agreed. Sony might stop first, seeing as how they just outsourced their TV business to TCL.
Yes, how quickly we forgot about the Essential phone. I see the look of the Pixel 9a in that photo.
The first Android phone I ever owned was from HTC. That thing was pretty slow at the end, but the company itself wasn't bad.
I had 1 of these or the m7 when they announced the iPhone 6 Plus - the first big iPhone. I sold the HTC and ordered the new iPhone as soon as I could. We’d been waiting for a big iPhone for what felt like forever
None. I had a few Android phones for a while -- a couple Samsungs and another one I forget which brand it was -- but all were cheap phones and generally not great to use. Once I switched to iPhone with the iPhone 7 I haven't gone back.
