[Swordmaker]

I’d rather use a Google Pixel phone if I’m on Android.

It would be a better choice than one of these two makes. It's design and software additions are controlled by Google, not the Chinese Government.

[Red Badger]

I get e-mails from people that say at teh bottom:

‘Sent from my Huawei’ phone.......or ZTE as applicable.

Now I think these may be loaded with spy-ware...................

[Garth Tater]

"It would be a better choice than one of these two makes. It's design and software additions are controlled by Google, not the Chinese Government. "

Huawei is the number one hardware platform for open source phone development. The company makes unlocking their phones a breeze via their website, they provide top-notch technical support to the developers at xda-developers.com (the place to be for phone devs) AND they provide serious hardware at great prices.

As to worrying about using a phone designed and built in China - I would much rather trust something that has been torn apart, examined and put back together by a world wide community of open source software and hardware developers than I would anything coming in a locked down package from Google.

My Huawei Honor 5x has been flashed with so many flavors of linux running every Android version since Kitkat that I can't keep count. It currently drops down from Android Mashmallow into a nuke hardened selinux which lets me hang out in unsafe spaces while my Honor 8 drops into Debian GNU/Linux and lets me do dev work in my home environment.

Can you tell I'm a big fan of Huawei phones?