Pixel 5. The battery is starting to fade. Otherwise it’s fine. Not super excited about Google all the way up my arse with it, but that’s any Android.

S24 ultra and it rocks in all aspects :)

Not too happy, my main complaint is that since 2020 all phone are too big for my small hands and I hate it.

iPhone and I’m not happy anymore with all the privacy invasion from Apple. Settings are automatically enabled instead of opt-in which is pissing me off. That’s why I’m switching to GrapheneOS in a few days.

Shouldn’t have to be sticking with Android much less Apple just 'cause of the industry and capitalism. I tried LineageOS for a while when I had something that could run it and had no complaints… it just died due to lack of parts that capitalism outmoded. Vendors are making their ~~shit ~~ too expensive now for enough people that may want to port something like LineageOS onto a phone that it limits what can be flashed. I think there’s technical hurdles they’ve introduced to mitigate that as well… it’s sad really. Also they obviously just don’t sell older phones as much anymore. Lite phone seems interesting, honestly, but I would probably end up having to still use some kind of Android alongside it for situations where I can’t solely rely on SMS… which is not secure… 😒

I have a Pixel 7, and I couldn’t recommend it. I feel my Pixel 3a was much more responsive, and the bluetooth was much more reliable. The bluetooth on my P7 is frustratingly bad, it restarts randomly several times an hour. It took me almost an entire day to get the pixel 3 watch registered and configured because it kept restarting before the process could complete. I’m to the point where I may need to go back to wired headphones/cables w/ USB-C to 3.5mm adapter

5-year old(ish) Motorola One and other than wishing my battery drained slower, no complaints but I appreciate it more every time I hear how much people spend (or are manipulated into spending via financing) on the flagship phones

Note: it still gets about 6 hours under load so the battery thing isn’t that big of a deal

I’ve got an S23 Ultra, and I absolutely love it. It’s still super fast, the battery life is great, and it can take a beating. I’ve dropped it multiple times without a case (I know, risky 😅), and it’s held up like a champ—barely a scratch.

The camera is amazing too. The zoom is crazy good, and it takes super detailed photos. The screen is big and looks stunning.

I think it was around $1300 USD when I got it, but you can probably find it cheaper now with deals. Honestly, it’s been worth every penny for me!

Enough that I don’t anticipate replacing it when new ones are announced in September. But we’ll see what gets announced. My partner is up for replacement, however. Her’s is two years older.

Samsung A52 5G. Has a headphone jack and microSD card slot, both of which I use. Good storage amount and power. Can emulate Gamecube games decently when I get the itch. Overall I’ve been happy with it for years.

Not a fan of the optical under screen fingerprint reader, and I’ve only been able to have it recognize my finger probably 30 times in the multiple years I’ve had it. Lights up the whole room at night when it tries and fails.

WiFi seems a little spotty as well. Have definitely had times where I know I have a strong signal without interference or congestion and it just loaded and loaded and loaded something that came up in less than a second on a laptop in the same conditions.

The glue holding the back on has failed. Dropped it years ago, the back cracked, and through dust ingress and heating and cooling over time, I now have to tape the back on. I dropped it more recently and cracked the screen glass.

So I’m in the market for a new phone. Nothing reasonable has MicroSD anymore, so I guess I’ll just need to get something with more storage than my current combined total. Really don’t want to budge on the headphone jack, but I think I might be forced to concede there as well. Usually I buy a new phone outright, but it’s not in the budget right now. Looking like I’ll have to use my carrier’s upgrade process. Google Pixel 8 or 9 is looking decent. Would probably install GrapheneOS. Thoughts?

Samsung S21. I’m not too invested in it, to be honest. But I don’t really have much against it either. “It’s alright” is as much praise a phone cane get from me these days - It does what I need it to do.

Context: early last year (I think. Maybe it was 2023) I was out and about doing field work as part of my job. My phone (S8 at the time) was severely beaten after years of abuse, and parts of the screen had stopped accepting touch input. One day I woke up in my hotel room and I noticed that my phone hadn’t charged. In addition to being really hard to unlock, no amount of cleaning and troubleshooting allowed me to get it to accept charge.

My S8 used its final burst of compliance for allowing me to call a coworker who handles the “normal” IT in our company. (I’m in charge of the “abnormal” IT), as my employer is contractually obligated to make sure I have a phone. He directed me to a store where I could pick up a handset and they’d be billed.

I went into the store and I was informed what they had available, and landed on an S21, as that was basically what they had as a newer equivalent of my S8. As my coworker had to approve it, I ended up just putting it in speakerphone so I could leave with the new phone with the seller knowing he’d actually be paid.

In all honesty, I stopped caring that much about phones around 2012 - As long as it’sAndroid it’sprobably OK. My Note 2 was excellent and I loved it. But the newer Note versions have a cheap plastic stylus that feels like a bendy toothpick, so I avoid them. So barring a proper Note phone, I find that they’re all the same. I stay with Samsung because that’s what I’m used to - Transfer everything from old to new, and I’m set. Just need to do some USB debugging to remove bloatware, that’s all.

For the record, I had an iPhone in 2009. I fucking hated it. Locked down and underpowered piece of shit that made me feel I didn’t truly own my phone. I’m not a big fan of android either, but at least it’s easy to have it bend to my will.

I also had an Openmoko (Neo Freerunner) in 2007 which was amazing (First production batch!) but as smartphones weren’t really common back then, it needed some polishing. According to Wikipedia, the release date was 2008, but I’m sure I had mine in late 2007.

EDIT: I just realized that the words that I wrote made it seem like I don’t really care about phones, while the length of my comment makes it seem like I absolutely do. Well, I used to. I just don’t care much about the current state of what’s available.

I can never be happy with a smartphone until it can be foss both hardware and software and yet still be able to be used for what I need which is required apps from vendors. Ultimately its impossible for me to like it. I have to have one sometimes with work so I get one with sorta best sorta price per quality looking mainly at the camera.

I’m happy with my iPhone 14+ except for two things: the camera is lagging behind other phones, and swipe typing on iOS is fucking garbage. I was an android user up until about 3 years ago. Good chance I will be again if they don’t fix the typing. Everything else is pretty good, but I wouldn’t put it above Samsung, which is mostly the other phones I’ve used.

Not my current phone but the iPhone 11 was the worst phones I’ve ever had. I upgraded from an iPhone 6 and the 11 was shockingly worse

I’m now on a 12 which works as intended. Hope to some day be able to afford a Pro version… after I win the lotto 🥲

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