Hi guys,

I'm a long-time iPhone user (since the iPhone 3G), but at this point, the Apple pricing is simply ridiculous, even I can't justify it, despite having spent a cumulative amount that could purchase a decent car or two over the years.

$2.5k+ for the OK-spec current generation phone is approaching jewellery territory for me, and given the amount my work had to spend on a replacement MacBook Pro, they're pricing themselves beyond what even our household with our pretty good disposable income feels comfortable spending, when the time comes for our laptops to go.

However, to phones.

I'm using an iPhone X at the moment, and I'm looking for some suggestions for an Android phone with similar build quality/specs, but obviously not the outrageous pricing.

It's been hard to miss the S10 marketing, but I've also seen the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, and in the flesh it doesn't look half bad.

I want to move up in screen size again, I was using the Plus sized iPhones forever, but I was on the X since the X has no Plus size.

Any suggestions for a 6-6.5" range flagship Android phone from people who have used it for a while?

Specifically looking for:

- Manufacturer support, do they stand by their phones or are you dead to them once purchased?

- Build quality

- Great design (Pixel 3 is a bit pedestrian for me)

- Decent software update cadence

- Good gaming performance

- Some form of gesture navigation would be nice too, on the iPhone X the swipe-up to go home, up and to the right to switch running apps is pretty slick and would be hard to lose, don't like the home button taking up screen space.

- Ability to unlock using fingerprint in-screen reader would be awesome, I absolutely hate Face ID it simply does not work for my use cases without trying to strategically position the phone, e.g. when lying on my side in bed :) 

- Relatively free of bloatware, or moderately easily made so (I'm pretty technical, but don't want to spend 1 month tweaking). Don't need pure Google-only Android, but also don't want tonnes of shovelware.

- Budget $1.5 to $2k ($2k at a stretch though, prefer not to spend that much).

Would appreciate any suggestions for things to check out!

Thanks!