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.
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You can get the battery replaced
Pixel 9a running grapheneOS. It's pretty good, no complaints. I even dropped it a couple times and it's still in one piece.
Got a 9 pro, already forgot what the differences are 😅 I really wish it was smaller, my previous phone was an iPhone 13 Mini and I really miss how convenient the size was...
Same
Fairphone 6 with e/os
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.
Pixel 8a with GrapheneOS. Considering getting a secondary older one to run postmarketOS.
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.
You really can't go wrong with GrapheneOS. You can use it completly degoogled, or you can install all the google crap and it still is more private oriented than any other Android phone, because GrapheneOS sandboxes the google crap.
Using a Pixel and not using GrapheneOS is the worst of all the worlds.
Fairphone 3+ with LineageOS
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).
Pixel 6a running Graphene. Considering getting a 10... or until this phone completely breaks. Advices/recs are welcome btw!
I upgraded from a 6 Pro to a 9 Pro when that came out and honestly, I'd be still fine using my 6 Pro. It's not that much of a performance jump if you ignore the cameras.
Looks like the Pixel 6 range is still in support for at least another year.
iPhone SE. I’ve refused to go larger.
I had the SE and the SE 2 and I miss that size phone
Was really hoping iPhone 16e would have continued the smaller size.
A pixel that a wonderful friend gifted me so that I could have a device with graphene.
unihertz titan
banana phone
Who was phone?
Raffi called. I forget about what. Call him back I guess.
iPhone 13. Hoping to get at least 1-2 more years out of it
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.
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The only one with a removable battery and a headphone jack.
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
Pixel 9 Pro XL.
I like the OS. Pretty good camera. Amazing management of spam calls, I literally do not get any.
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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
Slop phone is Unihertz Jellystar. Only used for govt apps and banks. Main phone is OnePlus 6 with Iode OS (Lineage)
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.
Xperia 5 II with LinageOS, but soon will be switching to Jolla Phone 2 running SailfishOS
A moto G42 with LineageOS. I buy used phones for about 200€ every 3 years and I am super happy with those.
Nothing with AI forcefully integrated. That seems like an obvious dividing point.
Had a Pixel 8a and dropped it today. Got $360 for a trade in and now pay $9 less a month for the iPhone 17e.
I will miss ad block on Firefox, but will enjoy FaceTime and iMessages
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.
You can add extensions to safari including adguard
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.
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. I'm switching to a Fairphone when Google locks Android.
iPhone 12 from 2020 and a surface pro 3 from 2013(?)
Going against the stream here as another iPhone user, iPhone 16.
Pixel 10
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