OnePlus 11 Pro, highly customised UI, rooted, and propped up security.
Will never touch an iPhone with their clumsy unintuitive OS, nor an Android where I can't get root access to remove all the unnecessary clutter and harden the OS.
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Motorola Moto G8 Power Lite. It was β¬130, good battery, no bloatware, does all the things I need from a smartphone even if the touchscreen is starting to freak out from time to time. Probably need to change the display but I'm broke atm
iPhone 13 Pro Max. Switched over from android (Galaxy S6) when the iPhone X came out, used that for 4 years, decided I liked it better than android due to iMessage, upgraded when it was time. I mostly use my phone for texting and browsing Reddit (RIP Apollo)
Poco F3 Using degoogled Crdroid. It works fine and I am getting monthly security aptches om the air.
Oneplus 6T with Ubuntu Touch/LineageOS Dualboot
Recently got a refurbished S20 ultra for the 5g.
This thing is great. 12 gb of ram, 128 gb internal storage, microsd slot up to 1tb, 108 MP camera...
I worked in a refurbishing warehouse of Cisco products, so I know they're good to go, so I always buy refurbished electronics when I can. Got the phone for $350, learned later that it retailed for like $1200 or something when it was released.
This thing is tits.
Samsung Galaxy A52 5G, no custom rom so I'm on One UI, Nova Launcher.
My last phone's charging port had gotten loose, and didn't consistently charge unless held at a specific angle, and at the time the A52 seemed to hit a sweet spot of power vs price. It also still has a microsd card slot and a headphone jack, which were must haves for me.
Historically: My first "Smart Device" was an iTouch around a year after they first came out. I was already into "jailbreaking" things from my Wii and PSP, my main media player was an iPod nano with rockbox on it, and in college I bought a cheap router then installed DD-wrt on it so it performed above its price range. I was all about controlling and tweaking my stuff. Then I got a hand me down Android when my dad upgraded his phone and haven't looked back.
Still haven't rooted any Androids yet. Not too much I've wanted to do that required it. The few times I have wanted to root, the method has always been too cumbersome to follow up on.
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Fold4.
My S9 died a month ago and I really couldn't find another phone that I was excited about. Nothing really had any "cool" factors about them. Many of them felt almost like downgrades compared to my S9. Lack of headphones jack, SD card reader etc...
The Fold4 was above my price range but i found one on eBay for $750 so i grabbed it.
So far I am liking it. It is bigger then I would have liked but the foldings screen is super nice you can have apps side by side. Great for multitasking. I also do a lot of remote access to my desktop and a large screen is perfect for that.
Poco X3 NFC with LineageOS.
200,-β¬ price, excellent photo quality if paired with fitting GCAM mod (AGC) plus config. Powerful enough as daily driver, privacy-frieendly enough after some simple changes, runs everything I need & if it drops & breaks (2 kids at home...) it's an affordable loss (I'm diligent about backups).
OnePlus 8 Pro but I'm thinking about switching to Pixel 7 Pro, or 8 if I wait long enough.
Does anyone have any experience with Pixels? Are they worth it?
I adore my Pixel. I jumped on a Pixel 3a many years ago, and it was an incredible phone. There was a brief switch to an iPhone 11 when the Pixel 3a finally bit the dust (I am an abusive phone owner... it had been stepped on, dropped a half dozen or more times sans case, dropped in a lake, skittered across rocks, etc. It finally died because I applied a little pressure to a crack in the screen like an idiot...) but that didn't last long. I jumped right back to the Pixel 6 within a year of having the iPhone.
My main reasons for use are the incredible support, getting constant updates to the OS from Google, and the camera. It is a smooth and pleasant experience all around. I don't think I'll ever own another android phone. If I did switch to a different manufacturer, I'd almost definitely run some kind of custom ROM on it.
I've used Pixels (and the Nexus line before that) for nearly 9 years and overall they've been great phones. Pixel 4 was really the only dud for me, but I haven't used them all, generally buy a used one every 2 years or so.
Right now I'm using a Pixel 5 which I like, and Mrs tomatobeard has a Pixel 6 which I'm a tad jealous of. Pixels have great Android support/updates, and also have good support in the custom ROM and modding community. My favorite phone ever was a Pixel 2 XL, and when Google stopped supporting it, I switched to Lineage os and kept rocking it for a year or more after.
Android. Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
iPhone 14 Pro Max. I know, I know, but the battery life canβt be beat. Great speaker, screen and camera too. Used to have a Huawei P30 Pro that was awesome though
Stock Android, Galaxy S21.
I wanted a smaller footprint phone with wireless charging, if not for the last part I'd go for Asus Zenfone 8.
I'm planning to switch to Zenfone 10 when it comes out this summer.
I've got an oppo reno8. Before I got this phone I promised myself I'd do a bunch of research to find a phone that was better than what I had, and that I could root.
In the end life got in the way and I just got a higher number phone (went from oppo reno 4 to 8) because I knew the phone was OK. Kinda regret it now
Samsung s10+ and I bought it so I could flash lineageOS on it. I only exclusively buy phones that can handle Lineage now. I'll rock this one until it dies or the battery gets too degraded and then buy another lineage comparable phone and continue the cycle. Each phone usually lasts around 4-5 years.
Galaxy S23, because I use Android for 13 years now (no Apple devices for me) and it is one of the few smaller devices. Also great battery life, performance (finally Snapdragon in Europe) and very long update support.
Nice!
I run a oneplus one, with lineageOS 18 and magisk. I am able to do banking, UPI(a quick form of banking in my country), document management(digilocker, for official govt issued documents), social media, etc.
It's slow sometimes but if you can ensure it doesn't heat up, it's a really good setup.
It's a hand-me-down, one of the best handmedowns anyone could want
Xiaomi Mi10 Lite with stock firmware. Xiaomi QIN22F as a second phone. I've tried some third-party Android variations, but none of them, including LineageOS, I liked to use. Or rather I liked LineageOS when it was still CyanogwenMod, and then, as usual, everything went wrong.
I got an S20FE because the screen on my s8+ was smashed to hell. I like the size, flat screen, it was relatively cheap at the time ~$500, it has expandable storage, a high end chipset, and 120hz screen. Overall, I love this phone, have no regrets buying it. Hoping I can hold onto it for a few more years haha
S tier phone, my only complaint is that the bootloader is locked down and downward facing speaker. Next phone I buy will be able to be de-googled.
The battery life is head and shoulders above 99% of the market, oled is a killer feature, so is 120 hz.
I have a Poco x3 NFC because it's cheap for the hardware it delivers and I have no money to buy a Pixel Phone ..it runs Lineage OS with microg to degoogle it
Nothing Phone 1. Using it because looks amazing
s8+ cuz i loved the curves, /e/OS cuz that was the only one fully functional with my model
Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ because refurbished it's affordable, has 256GB standard storage and a micro SD slot. Oh and 12GB of RAM. I also have a Tab s7+ and buds 2 and like how they work together. I'm not opposed to iOS, in fact I use a MacBook pro daily, but if those stingy fucks won't start offering decent storage on base model phones, I'm not interested.