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Moi? I use currently a NOTE 20 ultra 5g. Probably my second best phone, I only hate the fact it's so massive (I miss being able to use just one hand for my phone) and the mediocre battery life for someone like me that watches a lot of videos. But the S pen is so handy those few times you need it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Some motorola g30-something.

Great value for money. I don't care for anything extravagant when it comes to phones.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The OnePlus 7t back when it was on oxygen os 10. Great hardware, perfect software. It was the first phone I got where I didn't need or want to flash a custom rom. Unfortunately, every software update that it got since then felt like a downgrad. After oxygen os 10, oxygen os and Oppo's color os have been going through something of a merge. The result is that oxygen os is no longer as stock-like as it used to be and lots of small convenience features have disappeared in favor of flashy yet useless-to-me features. I have an 8t now and it's fine but I don't think that I'll get another OnePlus.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Currently using a OnePlus 9 Pro. Best phone I've used? The OnePlus 5t, hands down. Slightly wider aspect ratio in portrait orientation, great screen, camera and fingerprint reader for its day and fantastic 3rd party ROM selection.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Seconded! My 5T was the best phone I've ever carried. I carry the OP11 5G these days and I've been really happy with it, but overall I prefer the size and weight of the 5T.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

This cherry phone with a physical keyboard from the Philippines that allowed you to watch television using an antenna in the top right. However it sadly stopped booting for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Currently using a Galaxy A52s 5G w/ LineageOS... Best phone I've ever used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Huawei nova 3 was the best one I had, Second best one I had was iPhone 6s plus because it was handed down to my mom from my dad and then handed down to me and i still had software updates and was still smooth compared flagship samsung trash i owned that slowed down after 4 years. I might have put iphone6s as the best if sideloading was easier.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max. It's a nice phone. I like IOS better than I thought I would. I do think the Galaxy I had before it was pretty good though, too. If I didn't struggle so much with the iPhone keyboard, I guess this would be my favorite, but I use my phone so much and the swipe typing is so rough, it's hard to give a full endorsement.

That said, I am probably overestimating how gos typing on Android was. I remember lots of autocorrect issues, but iOS has a bunch of keyboard bugs that make correcting errors even more frustrating than making them in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I’ve been using Apple phones since like 2008 I think. The keyboard used to be great. This last year I would be tearing my hair out if I had any hair. I don’t know what happened, but it has gone to absolute shirt. I am really hoping the more I type the better Apple AI and hopefully-smarter-Siri will get at figuring out what I’m trying to say. I’m really hoping because it’s endlessly frustrating and maddening for me.

Fun side note: I have very fond memories of my bright yellow Windows phone that I was given long ago when I worked at the AT&T store back in maybe 2014. I think it was a Nokia. They also gave me a Samsung back then at some point too. I have zero memories of any kind about that phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I also loved my windows phone. The seamless continuation moving from phone to laptop was something that only now is sort of coming back. The phone just needed apps but the os and the design was really fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

My exact same analysis. The OS was terrific, attractive, and fun to use. And there were edges and corners, which you just don’t get with Apple.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am so glad someone else has noticed this too. Typing a search term in safari is the most frustrating experience ever.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I miss my Galaxy S4. After that, things just got worse and worse... Shoutout to my Nexus 6 for the screen size and ratio, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Current phone: OnePlus 9 Pro

Best phone ever: Nokia N900

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

iPhone 12 Mini. I loved my 5S and first gen SE and I still can’t understand why phone manufacturers these days insist on making tablets and calling them phones. I just want something that fits in my pocket. I would probably have switched to Android years ago but I haven’t found a single Android phone with a small form factor, decent performance and decent camera.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

12 mini for me too, for the same reason. Hopefully the trend will reverse and smaller phones will become more popular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I miss my note20. I'm a behemoth, with massive hands, so it was just the right one-hand size for me hah. It was also just a quality phone that survived a lot of abuse. Contrast to my pixel 7 pro, that I bought for one feature, and whose screen has had numerous issues in the year I've had it... Not happy with that switch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I've been a fan of the Pixels. I'm on a 7 now, no complaints.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Currently a Galaxy S9+. Battery life isn't the best anymore, and I'm running low on internal storage, but it's still serving me well. I'm not even sure what I'd upgrade to, I really need the SD slot that almost nothing new has anymore.

Best was my old Motorola Droid 2, I miss slide-out keyboards so damn badly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

iPhone 15 pro currently. Blackberry passport was the GOAT though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm currently using a Samsung s21 ultra, and it's kinda meh. The compass is not bad, it's horrendous. It used to be offset by say 90 degrees, but nowadays it seems more likely that it's a random number generator from 0 to 360 degrees, making any maps app bacically unusable unless you look at road markings, and other buildings to guess which way you're facing. The main camera has over time developed a hardware issue that makes all pictures always out of focus, unless you hit the phone on a hard surface to dislodge the focusing mechanism. From a software standpoint it's a good device. No major bugs, and it's pretty stabile.

My favorite phone was a used Samsung s6 as it felt kinda "flawless". Battery was good, camera was great (for the time), and hardware was pretty awesome. It was a great phone while it was still getting updates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Pixel 2 XL was my favorite phone and still works. I'm still on a Pixel 5 because of the physical fingerprint sensor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Same, 2XL was just a great phone all around, I really wish Google stuck with the panda colour scheme and not following trends like the notch or hole-punch, I'm on the 4a after my 5a shit itself, love the rear fingerprint reader!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I miss my LG Alias 2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Pixel 4a. I'm too lazy to get a new phone that often. Though, I don't get any proper updates anymore, that sucks. Best phone has always been the current one I use at the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

iPhone 14 Pro. Got it deeply discounted from my carrier when the 15 line came out.

It's ok, but it's a modern smartphone like any other so I have too many dislikes to say it's the best. The phone I think of most fondly was probably my LG Keybo 2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I've owned a total of 3 smartphones in my life. The very first one I got was an Alcatel Evolve. I got that in 2017 I want to say. It was a budget phone, just enough to get the job done and had it for roughly 5 years. I ended up smashing it in 2021 because by that point, it's performance has slowed to a crawl and it's battery life was poor to the point where it could not be used anymore for daily use.

To replace it I got a Samsung Galaxy A02s, another budget-line phone and it is still around me today. Not quite as good as it was the first year I had it for and it's only purpose is to give me entertainment during breaks and meal times at work.

Alongside it, my current and best phone that's my primary is the Samsung Galaxy A32-5G. Because of how much I spent on it, I gave that phone an Otterbox protection and it has done wonders since there were times because of my stupid coat pockets, it'd fall about a couple feet from the pocket to the concrete flooring at work. It is used for everything, almost.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Probably 1+ 6t (that's before it was merged). No bloat nice phone.

Or my old BlackBerry before they stopped bothering to test anything and rested on their laurels. I miss the one place portal everything posted its notifications etc. Android is awful for that.

I like my Pixel 7 Pro (current phone) but I have to have a launcher on it because their home screen sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Currently on a CMF phone 1.

Best phone is a tie between Nokia E70 or the HTC Dream. Suitable form factors and physical keyboards <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

iPhone 16 pro. Too early to tell but this might be my favorite ever.

Previous ones I also really enjoyed were all nexus or pixels but they all inevitably shit themselves after a couple years of use. Most recent one pixel 7 just decided it was gonna drain 6% battery per hour while idling out of nowhere. And nothing I tried fixed it. And I tried a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Current: S24U, Moto Razor 2023+, Pixel 8 Pro.

Best phone: Probably the LG V20 or V30. Can't remember which.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

iPhone 15 Pro and Pixel 6 for work. They’re both fine. Does phone things. Wish the battery life on the iPhone were better though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Cheap android phone with custom rom support.

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