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These are strange times in the smartphone world. For as long as I can remember, recommending a new smartphone was fairly simple. If you wanted a premium smartphone without spending over a thousand dollars, an Android phone was almost always the better bet. While the absolute top-end of the market remains up for debate, Samsung, Google, and a plethora of Chinese OEMs competed on price and value to make Android phones the obvious choice in that sweet $700–$800 segment.

That’s no longer true.