Well, I don't have this experience. My son has years Xiaomi Mi3 and it was a very good phone at that time, with a huge battery, now he uses iPhone. I have one of the first Samsung phones but it was really crap. Then I have five years Asus Zenphone it was great! You can check my older posts on Steemit, all photos and videos were recorded with it. Then I broke the glass and change the phone to LG G7ThinQ. It's a little bit old now but photos and videos are good. I bought my wife Samsung S52 and it works well, so I'm thinking about the same. But the latest Xiaomi's have good critics if you check GSM arena.
I agree with you about Huawei, I wouldn't buy it just because it no longer has Android support, not to mention other things ...
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