> My partner got the Moto G Stylus 2025 after we swore off Samsung last year.

I've been wanting to get away from Samsung for years, but keep coming back because of the s-pen. I've yet to find another manufacturer that makes a decent phone with a proper stylus. As in, a stylus which the device recognises as being something different to your finger. Most styluses use the same technology as the cheap ones you can buy on Amazon and use on any phone: all they do is imitate the finger. As far as I know, the Moto stylus phones are like that, right? That makes them very awkward to use for many things e.g.:

S-pen -> scroll down a PDF with my finger -> highlight with the pen

Regular stylus -> scroll down a PDF with my finger -> select highlight option in app -> highlight with stylus, being very careful not to touch the screen anywhere with my finger -> select browse option in app

With the latter, you have to specifically tell the app every time you are switching to/from finger and stylus. With the former, the app knows the difference.

If you give me a high end phone with a proper stylus and GrapheneOS, I'd probably never look back.