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Motorola One Action. Close to stock Android, good enough for what i need, and it was cheap. That last one was the real reason to get it, if I'm honest...
Edit: Seeing mentions of the fairphone, i looked into that but when i needed a new phone, the existing version (2?) Was quite outdated. It's a contender for my next phone, though. Hopefully not for a while.
Still rocking my Oneplus 7Pro but thinking I might want to upgrade to the new Google Pixel 8 when it comes out. I like stock Android and Google phones have been pretty nice from what I've seen and from the little amount of time I've used and played with them in stores. I like the ability to install a privacy focused rom like GrapheneOS too. But the only thing now holding me back from deciding on the Pixel 8 is the temperature reader like that's something I know I won't be using and I don't want to be paying for that when I know I won't be using that feature.
Android. Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
iPhone 14 pro max.
Upgrade from iPhone X that I bought 4 years ago? I want my phone to be stupidly simple and iPhone has always done that for me. I use my phone for everything and barely use my computer anymore so I went all in on it.
Samsung galaxy s9. Secure Folder let's me put my ms exchange work email on without my employer being able to remote wipe my phone
Poco X3 NFC with LineageOS.
200,-โฌ 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.
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.
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)
Still rocking the galaxy S9+.
My original one died a year ago and I tried the pixel 6, s22+, Asus Zenfone 9, and ROG phone 2, but nothing came close to being as nice to use, (no headphone jack, buggy software, little customization) so I got another s9+!
Oneplus 6T with Ubuntu Touch/LineageOS Dualboot
Samsung zfold 4, because I fell in love with the fold the moment I saw it. I'm a bit sad that my favourite launcher doesn't know what to do with the fold, but even with the crappy Samsung launcher, it's still an amazing phone.
Poco X3 NFC with a custom ROM, i bought it because it is cheap and it's great for buildbotting.
iOS, iPhone X currently. Still works fine so haven't felt much pressure to upgrade. Battery still great, performance is good. I don't use my phone for pictures so haven't needed a better camera.
I have considered changing brands when I next upgrade, I would sorta like to get a Huawei phone. I am just so used to iOS at this point, I am worried about the learning curve. I struggle to use other phone OS the same way I struggle to use non-Nikon cameras, my brain just refuses to work right. Throw me down in front of a new desktop OS and I will usually grasp it instantly. It's weird.
pixel 6 pro in order to use graphene os
Been using pixels since the first one, and I liked the 6 so much I bought a second one just for GrapheneOS
Poco X3 pro with stock because it is a lot of phone for the money.
Bought it to install Lineageos, then never got round to it.
Pixel4a running CalyxOS
Galaxy S23+ here, had the S10 and S7 before that. Great cameras (it matters to me) and very durable phones once you put them in a good case. The S23+ is easier on my old eyes and I easily get 3+ days battery life out of it. Samsung has also done a nice job slimming down the UI but I use the Nova launcher anyway.
Poco F2 Pro (lmi) with the custom ROM Paranoid Android CAF based A13.
I liked MIUI, but nothing beats the Pixel like experience!
Fairphone 4 because I like the idea of a repairable, sustainable phone. Microg LineageOS because want to avoid google as much as I can (within reason).
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.
Android (stock, for now) on a Pixel 6. As for why, I'm the "weirdo" in the peer group that uses Linux and Lemmy, so why wouldn't it track that I'd be the one messing up video quality on group texts with my green bubble?
Lol people still use SMS/iMessage? I mean aren't people these days using discord for grouo chat?
It's everywhere in the US. People really care about this, and this is why iPhones have 90% market share in both my high school and at my university.
OnePlus 11. Previous phone was the OnePlus 6 which I loved a tonne, but it eventually became a bit too slow for me. I almost picked a Pixel phone as I don't agree with OnePlus moving away from the stock android look in favour of Oxygen OS and the overall cost of their latest flagships, but it was good to see a shift back in the right direction with the OP11. Love this phone even if it isn't completely the same as stock.
iPhone 12 Pro.
I don't own it because it's a great experience, I own it for the ecosystem. I use a Mac as my daily driver and an iPad as a reader/tablet. Then I bought AirPods, because they switch easily between all my devices. Then I subscribed to the Apple Music Family Plan where they support spatial audio on said AirPods. The list goes on.
The best phone I ever owned was a OnePlus 7 Pro, but as a Mac user, it was just too much of a hassle.
I have a Motorola Moto G Power 2021 that I use for software testing that I LOVE, but it will never be my primary phone.
All of my mobile devices use some Linux based operating system. I have a PinePhone running Mobian, a moto g7 play running LineageOS, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab s6e also running LineageOS.
I would prefer a GNU/Linux operating system like Debian to Android as I feel I have more freedom and power with a traditional GNU/Linux system, although I have come to accept that ungoogled Android operating systems can be just as good if the proprietary Google services and proprietary apps are avoided. I'd like to give the PinePhone another try as daily driver especially since Debian 12 has been released.
Edit: As for Apple, being locked out of installing your own apps from outside the Apple market is reason enough to avoid iOS. As a free software user I don't think any perceived security or privacy benefits justify the massive decrease in freedom. I also would not say Apple is merely "mildly annoying" https://stallman.org/apple.html
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.