What phone you use as your daily driver? And, a discussion of them.

[AugeK]

S7 active, ATT version unlocked for use with my national carrier.
Replaced my S6 active which replaced my S5 active which replaced my S4 active.
Some major signs of wear, but the S8 active is not an option as they are lacking the physical buttons.

 

[wheresmycar]

S7 active, ATT version unlocked for use with my national carrier.
Replaced my S6 active which replaced my S5 active which replaced my S4 active.
Some major signs of wear, but the S8 active is not an option as they are lacking the physical buttons.

I was a bit hesitatant going for an upgrade without the physical buttons too. Ended up upgrading to S8 PLUS anyway after trying it out. Felt a bit weird at first but within a couple of days I got used to it.

 

[Totally]

Galaxy S20FE

 

[AugeK]

I was a bit hesitatant going for an upgrade without the physical buttons too. Ended up upgrading to S8 PLUS anyway after trying it out. Felt a bit weird at first but within a couple of days I got used to it.

Being an oldtimer i simply don't want to lose the physical buttons.
You may call it a matter of age, but that's how it is.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

I did a stupid thing today, left my phone on the roof of the car and drove off, wasn't until I was doing 100kph down the duel carriageway and I heard something hit the back of the car then 30 seconds after looking in the rear view mirror and see something bounce down the road and hit other cars I realized.
I did a U-turn to go look for it but by the time I got there someone had already snatched it, after persistent ringing someone finally answered and we went to pick it up. To my surprise it's totally fine, casing has some slight road rash but other than that it's totally fine, gorilla glass ftw.

 

[BlackSun59]

Moto G Play (2021) using MVNO Tello (=T-Mobile).

 

[R-T-B]

I actually have a last-gen socalled "flagship": The motorola edge+.

I got it for a steal because aparently they did not sell terribly well, but I find the phone snappy and good. Unlike many motorolas I've had the camera is decent, too. Motorola is still supporting it with updates as well. Someday I'll probably unlock it's bootloader too as motos tend to have good open source support.

The old phone (a lowly moto one) hit the tile floor at high speed (I had it in my shirt pocket, it escaped. The screen did not).

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

I did a stupid thing today, left my phone on the roof of the car and drove off, wasn't until I was doing 100kph down the duel carriageway and I heard something hit the back of the car then 30 seconds after looking in the rear view mirror and see something bounce down the road and hit other cars I realized.
I did a U-turn to go look for it but by the time I got there someone had already snatched it, after persistent ringing someone finally answered and we went to pick it up. To my surprise it's totally fine, casing has some slight road rash but other than that it's totally fine, gorilla glass ftw.

I've actually driven over my phone without killing it. DOH , glad it was saved lucky that.

 

[1freedude]

I actually have a last-gen socalled "flagship": The motorola edge+.

I got it for a steal because aparently they did not sell terribly well, but I find the phone snappy and good. Unlike many motorolas I've had the camera is decent, too. Motorola is still supporting it with updates as well. Someday I'll probably unlock it's bootloader too as motos tend to have good open source support.

The old phone (a lowly moto one) hit the tile floor at high speed (I had it in my shirt pocket, it escaped. The screen did not).

The lesson here? Frogs shouldn't wear shirts...

 

[xrobwx71]

Pixel 6 Pro. I had the Note 20 Ultra for a while but I hate the Samsung software. I've owned the Pixel 2 XL and the Pixel 4 XL I loved them.

The Pixel 6 Pro had a few bugs, 1. Dropping calls after 40 seconds or so when connected to my Trucks (Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro 2019) BlueTooth. 2. The fingerprint reader could be better. (It si better than the Samsung Note 20 Ultra).

These mentioned bugs seem to have been fixed with the latest OTA update. I talked to my Mom tonight in my truck for 30 minutes without issue. The fingerprint reader is faster and as long as my finger is clean, never misses.

All mentioned phones are carrier unlocked and USA based.

 

[Mussels]

Still Pixel 4 XL here, but my views have soured

Widevine security is stuck at L3, so no HD content with DRM - netflix is stuck at 720p
Google says its software, and refuses to fix it still

 

[theFOoL]

Well I throw in my rant lol I'm fine with 720p bc who's going to tell a difference on a smell screen. I say small bc you aren't going to see a difference only on 70 Inch TVs. I hate how people are complaining this and that on screen quality

 

[caroline!]

Any oldtimers using dumbs? Still rocking my Sony K790 as daily driver, I don't really need anything else and it just works, servicing is easy and I have some spare parts, 3 housings, batteries, and several charging/data ports I bought some years ago from a closing store.

Haven't got anything smart due to Google, iPhones worth a kidney in my banana republic and simply lack of use, I only make calls and send some texts, both mine and a $2000 smartphone can do it. If I want to browse the internet I've got my computer.

 

[freeagent]

I am still using an XS Max 256GB. The newer phones are nicer, but man those prices.. I just updated our plans for a bunch more data with no overage fees.. gettin with the times lol. Hopefully I can snag a 13 Pro Max on some kind of Certified Pre Owned special like I did with my current phone. The battery is still at 91% after two years.. not too bad. I will take it in for a new one soon as I paid for Apple Care lol.. hopefully they just give me a new phone like they did last time. The Apple guy was like you paid for it might as well lol..

 

[Esthirel]

I am using Realme GT master edition 128GB. 5G
Snapdragon 778G processor and 120hz display...
65w charger...charges to 80% in 19 minutes (Dual battery!) ...over 80% charging you shouldn't do (85 tops) . Wear @100% =1. Wear @80% = 0,24
It is lightyears ahead of my previous phone Huawei Psmart 2019.

The only device that may stand in its shade is Poco X3 which is 70 euros more expensive and has no 5G! The poco F3 5G is technically the most like the Realme GT but more expensive.
Buy this phone everybody! So much speed for 250 euro. It is almost similar to Samsung A52s but 150 euros cheaper. It looks better than the Samsung too..Cheers.

 

[Mussels]

Well I throw in my rant lol I'm fine with 720p bc who's going to tell a difference on a smell screen. I say small bc you aren't going to see a difference only on 70 Inch TVs. I hate how people are complaining this and that on screen quality

It's a 1440p 90Hz HDR display locked to 720 30FPS SDR.
Yeah, you can see the difference.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Iphone 8 plus. still does the job with great audio output

 

[Mr Bill]

iPhone 6S still going strong, and does everything I personally need a phone to do.

 

[GreiverBlade]

among my favorites, my previous one (i used to change every six month till that one, reselling the old one or giving them to my parent and friends ) Redmi Note 9 Pro which i did hold 9 month (Note 9 hold 9 more? coincidence?) more than the usual and the actual Poco F3 5G (why pay 4 time more for the same day to day performances )

the Poco F3 is a come back to my all time favorite when i discovered the Poco (at that time Pocophone) F1, flagship features (screen SOC and much more ) and some compromises (no uSD slot and slightly lower pixel count camera than the Note 9 Pro although not much price difference between them and the camera actually take more than decent shots, meanwhile the N9P was 64gb and the F3 was 128gb )

3 days in with the F3 and i already know it will remain strong for quite some time the SD870 is still a strong runner (although the SD8 Gen1 and the Dimensity 1XXX and 9XXX are "stomping" on it) ... and the Dolby Atmos dual speaker made me sell my BT speakers (not as bassy as a Boom 2 Le but the sound output is quite satisfactory )

sidenote
you have the right to call me a hater on Samsung and Apple (Samsung for all reason, price device, Apple only on price ... their devices are quite good and their extremely closed ecosystem are an advantage for some peoples.)

The only device that may stand in its shade is Poco X3 which is 70 euros more expensive and has no 5G! The poco F3 5G is technically the most like the Realme GT but more expensive.
Buy this phone everybody! So much speed for 250 euro. It is almost similar to Samsung A52s but 150 euros cheaper. It looks better than the Samsung too..Cheers.

mhhh the Realme GT Master Ed. is 329chf for me meanwhile the Poco F3 5G was 299 (outside of the discount i got for it) and SD870, stereo speaker and better build versus SD778G, for the rest yeah they are alike (storage, screen), even in battery capacity (although 220mAh more on the F3 5G ) but yes ... 65W charging is better (over the 33W )

the GT Neo 2 is actually the counterpart of the Poco F3 5G but price is around 399Eur (aka 100 more than the F3 5G ) and the GT 5G and GT2 with the SD888 are the top dog in the pack (but 400+ Eur price )

no misunderstanding i really do like Realme, they have excellent offers too.

 

[theFOoL]

I'm on my LG G4 with the TQTHL 10kMah Battery. Does what I need which is browsing, email, video, light games

Note - Do not charge a extended battery by USB otherwise it'll expand over time Hence loosing it's capacity a bit. I have two slim models batteries but they still fit just the capacity lost a bit

 

[Shou Miko]

I am still on my iPhone 12 Pro Max since more people I know is going iPhone I am staying even I secretly wants a Oppo phone again but that's in another life time.

I am staying on iOS I know that I can receive iMessages and so on.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Unless it has near flat output like my 8 plus, not interested

 

[phill]

Well for the last 5 ish years I think (might be a bit more or less) I've been with Huawei.. Got tired of Samsung phones with all the bloatware and rubbish, so I went to them. The first Huawei I had was the P10, worked really well, nice phone at the time and the camera which I prefer to have something decent, was pretty good.

I think I went over my contract for a few months and didn't do anything but then moved on the P30 Pro which I still have (as I still have the P10 as I sometimes use it for the camera.... explained below...)

Was very impressed and happy with the phone, the quality of the screen, camera and just general performance of the phone was great. Battery life wasn't too bad either and with it's about an hour or so charge to full from empty, that was a positive thing too.

Up until June ish last year, everything was going great until I had an update with the phone and it appeared to have knocked out the main camera (so 1x to 10x I think?? Might be up to 5x but still has issues with anything sometimes up to 10x zoom) which has really rendered the camera side of it pretty damn useless. As I was just getting out of my contract for my two years, I refused to pay £200+ for a repair and getting it sorted as seeing the prices they wanted for the motherboard/main camera and then labour etc. I just thought it seemed crazy to spend it on the phone when I could use the money to go to another.

I've stuck with the faulty camera after seeing a lot of people on the web on various phone sites, complaining of the same thing. Some getting it repaired and some not having the luck. Sadly though with the lack of Google on the P40 and P50 phones now I can't really stay with them as some of the apps I do use (which still grinds on me) banking or the DS File for my Synology box (phone backup basically) as an example, I need to have on a new phone.

I'm not sure I'm going to like it but the S22 models will be out in a few weeks so I'm going to get to the release date and see what they bring. I'm looking for anything Android with a decent camera, good screen, battery life that can last a day or more with a bit of use (I don't generally play games on the phone or really use it for anything that demanding... and I try to limit it to at most 2 hours screen time) so I don't have crazy requirements really. Even storage space isn't really an issue as the phone backs up to the server, I'm not very likely to fill up a 16TB drive just yet... (Bloody hope not!!)

Sorry I thought I'd be a little quicker than that explaining but my little user experience.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

The high end galaxy S phones are really good, but too many apps you will never ever use. Their screens are very good too.

 

[Space Lynx]

The high end galaxy S phones are really good, but too many apps you will never ever use. Their screens are very good too.

ya if the S22 didn't come with an unremovable facebook app, etc i would prob upgrade to a s22. as it stands I am waiting until August I think and getting a pixel 6A. or whenever the pixel 6a comes out anyway. I might go with the iphone se 2 if that comes out in april/may. I have not decided yet.