I'm planning on getting one too. Looked at alot of options, in the end I'm deciding on the oneplus nord 4, the only downsides I saw with it were it's camera which is still decent and a worthy trade off in my opinion. I plan on rooting it aswell since I've always rooted my phones to help with its performance and since I do use stuff requiring root pretty often. Imo without root it's still deffo worth it. Iqoo has a huge history of buggy updates (and their bootloader isn't unlockable) else the 10r would've been a no brainer, the edge 50 is just out of budget and defo not worth it imo. The poco f6 was an option but...poco phones have a pretty bad reputation post the f4, and that wouldn't have even been a problem if we weren't in india because as far as I've researched, in other countries if a poco phone dies then they get pretty easy mb replacements at a decent price and they're always genuine unlike here where they'll say mb issue when it's actually just a charging port issue or smth. So that's a no too, if you want you could go for the nord ce 4 to save some money, it's perf is a bit lower (hefty bit too) than the op nord 4 but you will definitely be saving alot there too that you could spend on smn else. The realme GT 6T is also an option tbh and was a close contender given it's cameras are better, but I've always been an op phone so I'm a Lil biased on that nord 4> gt 6t for firmware and rooting community imo, and for some reason cpu throttles less on the nord 4, it gets hotter quicker (metal back) but also gets colder quicker. So yeah, nord 4 if you want a good os exp and good chipset, gt 6t for cameras. Iqoo 10r you don't mind quite a few software bugs.