LG G2 (2013) running LineageOS!
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Pixel 9a running grapheneOS. It's pretty good, no complaints. I even dropped it a couple times and it's still in one piece.
Pixel 8a with GrapheneOS. Considering getting a secondary older one to run postmarketOS.
banana phone
Similar, I have a 13 Mini, that I really hope lasts me enough until Apple tries their hand at another smallish form factor phone
Same. I hope to get a few more years with it too.
I haven’t noticed any slowdown issues with any updates yet, but it was the battery of my last one that pushed me to upgrade.
Currently using a Pixel 7. Not sure what I'm going to do in a few months when Google locks the OS down. Probably, I'll finally have to get around to seriously investigating Graphene :(
I currently figure my next phone will be either another Motorola (my Moto X was favorite phone ever) or something by Fairphone. More likely, Fairphone. Motorola hasn't really appealed to me since Google carved all the interesting tech patents out them and discarded the rest of the company. I suppose it depends on whether I like Graphene and whether Motorola follows through with their promise to support it. Anyway, I'll cross that bridge when my 7 dies.
Pixel 9 Pro XL.
I like the OS. Pretty good camera. Amazing management of spam calls, I literally do not get any.
Unihertz Titan 2. Great conversation starter :) I needed to rethink my relationship to smartphone and move away from doomscrolling. The drastic change in form factor helped a lot while maintaining the possibilities open (it's no dumb phone). It doesn't have support for custom firmwares / OS sadly, but it's possible to debloat and work around limitations
A pixel that a wonderful friend gifted me so that I could have a device with graphene.
Going against the stream here as another iPhone user, iPhone 16.
Nothing with AI forcefully integrated. That seems like an obvious dividing point.
iPhone SE. I’ve refused to go larger.
there's a new browser called Reynard which is a full Firefox (Gecko) fork for iOS, also supports uBlock Origin.
Not on the appstore but you can still install it without jailbreaking. (in fact, it's impossible to jailbreak that phone atm..)
Orion lets you install firefox extensions, or you can get uBlock Origin Lite on the App Store for safari.
Pixel 10 Pro XL running GrapheneOS. Very glad to have switched, but the OS is kind of bare bones. I previously had a Samsung and miss having some of the features that OneUI had (such as notification reminders and the sound picker).
I have a pixel 6 pro and will continue using it until I can't anymore. My next phone won't be a google nor apple one, but I don't know what I want (edit: I'm also not keen on Samsung).
I don't want a dumbphone (I use maps for navigation and frequently look up things to do when traveling and the like), but it needs felica support and to work with Japanese government apps (as well as transportation cards, though Japan may eventually finally roll out tapping a normal credit/debit card by the time my phone gives up the ghost).
I have very few complaints with the phone itself now (there were issues around launch and that persisted quite a while), but I'm also slowly (mostly) de-googling my life.
Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. I'm switching to a Fairphone when Google locks Android.
CMF Phone 1. Pretty basic in 2026, but it does everything I need it to. I'd like to get a Fairphone in the future (or maybe a Linux one), but hopefully this phone will keep me going for another few years.
The phone I have plays Balatro perfectly, which is about as intensive an app/game as I ever use on mobile. I'm glued to my PC all day every day so the only time I need my phone is when I'm taking a dump or going to bed.
My brother is a gadget-head, the phone he has now is one of those crazy folding ones that can become phone-sized or spread out to be a small tablet. There's no ballsack seam at the fold point, unlike with earlier models. Pretty kewl. Nothing I'd ever need, though.
Slop phone is Unihertz Jellystar. Only used for govt apps and banks. Main phone is OnePlus 6 with Iode OS (Lineage)
Pixel 7
Unfortunately the support period is ending next fall, so I'm looking at either a pixel 11 once the 12 comes out or the new Motorola phones with the Graphene collab
Pixel 6a running Graphene. Considering getting a 10... or until this phone completely breaks. Advices/recs are welcome btw!
I have an iPhone 13 as my phone
I also have a cheap ZTE Blade that I turned into an mp3 player because it has a microSD card slot. I just removed every app I could, installed Musicolet, and loaded a card with a lot of the music I have on my pc.
It doesn’t connect to any cell network and rarely do I connect it to my wifi. I’ve been looking for some kind of schematics so I can disconnect anything that could connect to a cell network and I’d also like to disconnect the microphone and camera too. I just want it to work as an mp3 player with an expandable card slot and only go online if I choose to connect to wifi.
Pixel 8, stock rom.
I planned to get the Pixel 10 Pro but Google had to ruin a good thing and remove the NanoSIM slot only in the US.
I haven't been able to source an international one from anywhere so I'm just sticking with this until the Motorola Graphene phone launches.
Blackview BL9000.
It's a huge cellular brick, weighing 400+g, 2cm thick, chunky boy with protective case. Doubles as a self defense device and will remain functional afterwards. Reignited my love for big and heavy things.
Normal phones are ruined forever for me now. Going from my phone to a normal one my wife has is like going from a normal phone to a credit card and pretending it's a phone.
It was rather cheap, solid hardware, most people complain about the bad camera, but i find it completely sufficient.
Main issue over software came later, about a year in they did a software update during which they started to send ads under system messages. Cant turn it off either, though at least i can turn it to once a day and silent, though they have increased it to 3in1 by now and just found out that it saved a preview picture of the ad to the devices temporary folder. Not much of a space issues, though annoying as those did came up when searching for pictures.
Similar here. I own the Power Armor 18 from Ulefone. Also a rugged phone and yes. I'm also never going back to small phones
That's a nice one as well. How's that? Any hidden issues? As the ads on my Blackview will most definitely make me avoid that brand in the future, but the overall style of the phone is rather good.
Ulefones do seem to fall under the same design.
The power button stopped working after a year and a half. Admittedly, after I dropped it, but one would expect a rugged phone to be able to take the hit without damage. I did manage to reconfigure the phone to turn the screen of with the menu button, and to activate it using the fingerprint button. Besides that, the phone works flawlessly. I have no complaints
My pixel9pro battery kerploded so I'm back to my old xperia 5 iv until I get it fixed. I love the form factor, the headphone jack, the SD card slot, the physical camera button... But damn if the pixel9 isn't just a better experience
Pixel 9 Pro running the stock ROM as my main and a Pixel 7a with Graphene for other stuff. I really wanted to get that new Unihertz Titan 2 Elite, but my Kickstarter account was suspended for whatever reason? And I'm not really sure I wanna pay $600 for it.
I've got heaps of phones lying around just for nostalgia's sake, including my Lumia 930 which I love.
I have the iPhone 14 Pro Max. It’s starting to show its age a bit with battery life but I’m going to try to stick with it as long as I can.
Pixel 8 pro. Back glass is broken and there is some expanding loss of pixels on the front but it's a good phone. Had a OnePlus 7 before this and tempted to go back to OnePlus next or another Pixel probably in the next year
Xperia 5 II with LinageOS, but soon will be switching to Jolla Phone 2 running SailfishOS
iPhone and Pixel users:

zflip 4, looking to upgrade to razr after they release GrapheneOS support.
sledge
Stop buying Apple and Google slop and get a real phone smh my face.
looking to upgrade after they release GrapheneOS support
GrapheneOS? You mean the 3rd party OS everyone else uses? The one that for a long time ONLY was for Pixel phones?
I only care because of the flip device support, not because of GrapheneOS's specific, albeit useful, out of box security features.
Otherwise I would have rolled with any decent 3rd party ROM like LineageOS years ago and opted to harden my phone manually.
And I'm too lazy to go Android spelunking to add support for my current device because its already reaching EoL in a year and the hardware is a bit dated.
Who cares? It’s a phone.
Said like a true iphone user for the past 19 years of the shitty iOS experience >:D
damn I miss the mile long sledge threads of XDA
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