Motorola. Mind you this is my experience with a single product, but it's the first time I've been this disappointed/flabbergasted by a mobile phone. I recently bought a used Motorola Moto G100 for a bargain price and in mint condition. The technical specifications seemed like a decent upgrade to my old budget chinkphone that I was using since 2016, but as more time passed, the more I realized that this phone was an epitome of a brand either not knowing how to manage their product, or maliciously sabotaging it.
The first major hint was a friend complaining of poor call clarity. I checked what was up and found out that VoLTE was not working, even though it was enabled. I started digging into it, finding barely any information on it online, except some mentions of it being iffy on XDA forums. Another thing I noticed while reading the forum is that supposedly before Motorola pushed an update to upgrade the phone to Android 12 it also had 5G support, which went away after the update - quite strange. At this point I thought to myself "screw it, let's try installing Lineage OS and see if that fixes it". Long story short it did not, as the phone was still refusing to connect to a call using VoLTE, something even my budget, 80-dollar-new-from-aliexpress chinkphone from 2016 could do (this phone costs $350 new, mind you).
But there was ANOTHER thing. The phone has a notification light. You might think "well that's nothing special, it's just a simple notification light" and I would agree with you, but this hardware feature was never mentioned anywhere, or even available to use through the stock android ROM supplied with the phone. I only found out about it's existence when I installed Lineage OS and saw a small light shine at the corner of the screen. And the best part after all of this? I flashed the original stock ROM back onto the phone, only to find that even the option titled "Enable 4G calls" was not present on the phone anymore, ratifying the fact that I won't be getting clear voice calls out of this phone, ever.
This has been the most mind boggling phone I've ever had the displeasure of acquiring: features that were advertised and then taken away with updates, hardware features that are present but not accessible by default, essential functionality that refuses to work... oh, and also a dedicated physical "Google Assistant" button that cannot be rebound to anything else, aside from completely disabling it by force-disabling the Assistant app, making the button nothing more than a glorified fidget toy.
