[fred cook]

After doing lots of online reading and talking to the phone store reps a couple of times, I think that the wife and I narrowed the choice down to either an iPhone 8 and 8 Plus or a Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. She gets the bigger one! Since I am currently a Verizon customer, I can buy one iPhone and (eventually) get the other one for free. The downside here is that the iPhone 8 has a relatively small battery. The Pixels have much larger batteries, but I have to pay for both phones! I just learned that the Pixel 3 is supposed to come out in October so I/we might wait until then and maybe pick up Pixel 2 phones at fire sale rates. Who knew this would get so complicated? The search goes on!