Not sure if this is even worthy of a post, but I'm in the market for a new phone now and I only see Huawei, Google (specifically the Pixel, because you can't avoid Android really) and Apple on my boycott list. No gimmicky "privacy" phones (Librem etc), I need something fairly normie.
Recommend apps too if you have any suggestions, I use Microsoft everything currently.
Samsung, and LG are fine. Plus, they are Korean brands that, last I checked, don't use slave labor to make them, unlike Apple, Huawei (or anything Chinese phone for that matter), or the Pixel. I've heard good things about the Sony Xperia too, but you might wanna avoid them because...ya know...Sony.