Apple

Samsung and pixel that’s pretty much it

Literally no current phone gives me that feeling, android, apple, or otherwise.

I just can't the apple ui so I don't, and I feel ill when fanglorbs praise me for having an iphone. Why does that even happen. Android is untrust so I use graphene but it has a lot of tradeoff. Pure Linux phones are still far from ready both hardware and software.

Early iphones were cool because everything actually was new. When android custom ROM devs started making cool new features that after a year or two became new iphone features praised as being never been done before I couldn't see them as the status symbol all the street thugs in my area considered them to be.

Meanwhile Android phone makers ditched microsd on all flagship level phones and massively overpriced the permanent storage to be almost if not just as bullshit as apples pricing.

At this point I just want a smallish phone I can one handedly reach my thumb over the whole screen without carpel tunnel, microsd or honestly even nvme phone thickness could be half an inch and I wouldn't mind, I don't use 3.5 jack anymore so w.e to that, some OLED variant with at least 70hz refresh, no rounded screen edges so tempered glass actually can be used, and a fingerprint reader that isn't shit. Given several of these exist on different phones it's not like it would be a big ask but all the manufacturers, or their suits at least, are irredeemably stupid and people just keep making them money anyway.

google pixel in the first place: clever marketing, excellent industrial design, great software.

OP is asking for opinions on what we THINK is a premium brand and then shitting all over that brand for not being premium enough or not having cool enough commercials 😂😂

It depends on what lens you're viewing this through. Apple only has such a strong stranglehold in the US and Canada in my experience. I moved from the states to Australia and almost nobody that I know has an iPhone here, and a lot of people seem to dislike Apple.

The Pixel and the Galaxy S series of phones would be the high end name brands on Android. Xiaomi is trying to add themselves to that group as well. We will see if they succeed.

I’ve held the new latest Sony models and they feel really premium in hand. It’s sad that Sony has been pretty understated with their marketing.

I've not considered which android phone I consider premium in over a decade. I simply haven't thought about it. Last time I did... it was an HTC phone. But that was a LOOOOONG time ago.

Sony and Samsung. HTC is also a premium brand, but then again, they aren’t focused on building Android devices anymore. The same goes with LG. Sadly, the Android market is filled with Chinese companies which I don’t consider premium.

Not Sony with their weird phone naming strategy lol

Yeah, that's one of the key reasons why i switched to iPhone. What ever the size, quality and iOS is great. One phone though is Pixel. It does mimic the quality, but whenever I download some app which is 1gb it crashes

the high end sony phones have really good build quality and they are shipped with stock android. sony overall is a premium brand.

Sony or the late Essential Phone