For myself, I only buy rugged phones. I have a Kyocera DuraForce Pro 2 (in the same type case I bought for the Sonim), but, after having to replace the non-replaceable battery, I moved up to a Sonim Xp8 (easily replaceable battery) inside of a rugged case (which I managed to crack and then fix with super glue).
So, my phones are bulky and I carry them in my cargo pants pocket, though these attach fairly well on the pants belt or gun belt, when under trucks, they do tend to fall off. Or worse, fall off when running a chainsaw or chipper and you have to go find it in a pile or mulch or leaves. Which is why I like having a bright colored case and skip looking cool with camo covers ...
With the big battery, if I do not watch videos I recharge every 3-5 days. I like having the house alarm.com app., followed by google maps. My "ideal" phone was the NEC Terrain, rugged with a real keyboard and replaceable battery, but, time by-passed that deal, same with the blackberry
Having replaced batteries in various Samsung phones models for people, that would be the last choice of a phone for me, I break the digitizer about 1/2 the time replacing the batteries in their various model phones. Except the Apple, that would be the dead last choice of a smart phone for me in our actor based reality. Which of course, is the phone two of my kids picked, the good news is they know I refuse to work on them
My youngest daughter destroyed her new replacement phone from AT&T, for when they dropped the 3G, I think it lasted a week before she dropped it and the whole screeen when crackle. What a terrible piece of horse poop. We had the 3G phone for almost 3 years before they obsoleted it and replaced it with this piece of "free" junk.