William Park via Talk wrote on 2025-06-20 15:16:
Anyone here with Samsung Axx phones? How would you compare it against Sxx quality?
I can't speak to that, but...
I know Axx is for budget and Sxx is for premium flagship. I want this purchase to be my last.
Samsung phones sold in North America cannot be rooted and have other firmware installed. If phone longevity is a consideration, iPhones or Pixels are the way to go. As said earlier, my Pixel4a from ~2020 was out of Google support for almost 2 years now. Yet with LineageOS it got boosted to the latest Android 15, gets weekly updates, and was turned from ewaste (Thanks, Google) back into a perfectly fine phone. Samsung uses Exynos chips on their international phones and those can be unlocked and have firmware installed. Not a Qualcomm vs Exynos difference, just that they lock phones sold in NA for some reason.