Even so I still think Samsung phones are getting worse for quality as each year passes the quality is rapidly declining.
My old Samsung Galaxy S2 is still going strong no screen protector, whatever OS version it is now, and the original battery.
I gave the S2 to my dad for a while then I gave him my old S3 so then my sister got the S2 and it still has no scratches on the screen still works great.
The S3 was my second one it was replaced after the screen spontaneously cracked now it's on it's third battery and the WiFi had stopped working. The screen has a scratch on it too I barely got it home before it was scratched I didn't even have time to buy a screen protector.
My S5 is failing even faster and I am also on my third battery soon to be fourth. The screen scratches far easier than the S2.
Anecdata, anecdata... My experience is quite the opposite. My current phone is Galaxy S7, and I'm very happy with it. Close to year of use without any screen protector whatsoever, and it only recently got some tiny, barely visible scratches (I think I may have accidentally put it with something sharp in the same pocket). My previous phone, S4, survived a lot of abuse, including breaking the glass twice; when I switched to S7, it was still perfectly fine, so I gave it to my brother. My SO's S3 works fine to this day; only recently I replaced her the broken glass.
The only issue my SO and I have with our phones is that, in time, they get annoyingly slow. But I can't really blame Samsung for the absurd amount of software bloat the mobile ecosystem accrues every year. Same crap is continuing to eat desktop and web anyway.
(I'm dreading the day when someone will have the brilliant idea of porting Electron to Android...)
I agree completely. I had the original Samsung Vibrant, then almost every Galaxy phone up the 7. After the 5th one, each phone was worse than the last. I'll never go back to a Samsung.
Couldn't be happier with my Nexus 6P. Not the most powerful phone out there, but it just works.
My old Samsung Galaxy S2 is still going strong no screen protector, whatever OS version it is now, and the original battery.
I gave the S2 to my dad for a while then I gave him my old S3 so then my sister got the S2 and it still has no scratches on the screen still works great.
The S3 was my second one it was replaced after the screen spontaneously cracked now it's on it's third battery and the WiFi had stopped working. The screen has a scratch on it too I barely got it home before it was scratched I didn't even have time to buy a screen protector.
My S5 is failing even faster and I am also on my third battery soon to be fourth. The screen scratches far easier than the S2.
My next phone will not be a Samsung.