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

JalleR said:
SGS 20+ really happy with it, but i have ordered a SGZ Flip 3
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Hope it lasts since it's gen 3 now.... Does samsung still put out a number of folds it should handle in the warranty? :laugh:
 
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Note 20 ultra..... I swap phones every two years to whatever catches my eye.
 
Oppo A72 the only thing that pisses me off about it is the so called USB type C port yes it's it a type c connector but it's backed up by a shitty USB2.0 controller so plugging it into a PC's type c port won't get you 18W charging nor will it get you USB3.1 gen 1 or 2 speeds but other than that the phone works great nothing I've run on it to date has bogged it down or made it freeze up needing to reboot the phone and it's just had an update to Android 11 so yay
 
iPhone 11
forever!
 
I've had a Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra since last October and it's the best phone/camera I've ever had, but with further Galaxy Note phones in doubt, I'll be hanging onto it for a while longer. The Spigen Tough Armour case, 256Gb of storage, 8GB of RAM, 108 Megapixel camera and an SD card slot really sealed the deal for me.
The only aspect that would make me change is 5G, but I can't see that arriving in Argentina for quite some time.
 

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I might upgrade to last years phone in 6 months or so if my carrier has any certified preowned models on discount. I bought my XS Max 256 for literally half price, and I swear it was a brand new phone. I haven't let it go dead, but I have worked it pretty hard with Mario Kart during my 10 months off, and the dam battery is still over 92%. I'm going to have to drop it or something to get a new one lol.. but its a tough phone, regular drops don't seem to work lol.. That money I paid for Apple Care is the same as a replacement phone.. We still have our 4S, 5S and 7.. and a few iPads. I did have an S3 once.. I stuck an Anker 4400mah battery in it and charged it once a week.. it was great! But the hardware sucked. But you could run utorrent.. so not bad I guess..
 
Blackview A80Pro. I had the phone for over a year now. I paid only 122 eur for it. I'm surprised that there is even an official upgrade to Android 10 considering how cheap was the phone in the first place.
 
iPhone 6S. Recently replaced the battery for $50 so the battery lasts 2 days instead of 2 hours.
It is the 16GB version which is annoying since I have to play The App Shuffle with offloading and installing apps every so often, but it doesn't bother me all that much (and the phone was free so I ain't complaining). The heaviest thing I run on it is Ingress which is a battery-muncher, but it lasts more than 4 hours now which is plenty and no slowdowns unless I'm feeling crazy and play a very graphically-heavy GD level.
 
lynx29 said:
lovely. shame companies don't do replaceable batteries more easily and through official channels to boot.

if they actually cared about climate change and not short term greed they would. but eh.
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Not this argument again. Many people only keep their phones for 2-3 years. There's really no point for replaceable anything in phones. They are just cheap electronic devices with limited usable lifespan. I have kept my previous phone for 5 and half years and battery was still kinda okay. Surely not as good as when it was new, but adequate nonetheless. Batteries don't really degrade that much over years.
 
tl;dr - Nokia 808 PureView. Daily driver for about 5 years now. Pretty much useless as a smartphone these days, but it answers calls and shoots pics like a motherclucker :D

The 808. The Legend. The last of the Mohicans. Took the other players the better part of a decade to catch up to its camera.

Ever since it lauched I wanted one. Then in late 2016 I finally looked around. Got it crazy cheap second hand (about $50, when good ones were fetching about $240), then replaced the cracked digitizer myself and since early 2017 I've been using it as a daily driver.

Pros:
+ camera (duh) with an actual xenon flash
+ small compared to most modern phones
+ can be used with one hand
+ actually comfortable and safe to hold (because it's so thicc)
+ pretty good AMOLED display (even if low res)
+ hardware buttons for screen lock, calls and menu, camera, even LED flashlight (ridiculously useful!)
+ offline GPS with pretty good maps
+ 3.5 mm port
+ microSD slot
+ replaceable battery
+ FM radio
+ FM transmitter (never seen this on any other phone)
+ the alarms ring even if the phone is off

Cons:
- Viber/WhatsApp/fb/skype/etc. support was naturally dropped ages ago
- modern web pages are so heavy that the browser sometimes makes the phone hang
- the GPS no longer syncs for some reason
- the 2-stage camera button won't do stage 1 anymore, so I have to manually tap on the display to focus, pretty annoying
- something's constantly filling up the system storage and for the life of me I can't figure out what
- the 3.5 mm port rarely works anymore, possibly because the whole thing is in dire need of a teardown and cleanup :D

Still, it does calls and awesome photos, especially if you know what you're doing, which is most of what I expect a phone to do (I'm no power user). And I still love it very much! Such a cute chunky boy! :)

I'm gonna have to replace it eventually, and it's probably gonna be for some phone from a smaller Chinese brand, because none of the big players make smaller phones anymore. A 4" screen is my upper limit. In that regard, I think Apple had it right with the iPhone 4/5. Now, I know I'm in the minority here, but I absolutely hate the modern glass slab monstrosities they dare call phones nowadays, which you can neither operate properly with one hand, nor comfortably fit in a pocket.
 
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Samsung S8 - going on year 4 with it once December gets here.

Battery still holds a decent charge. I'm not on it much so usually by the end of the day it's still around 65%+
 
Samsung Galaxy A50. Bought in 2019, hopefully it will last another 2-3 years. Pretty decent mid range phone.
 
The red spirit said:
Not this argument again. Many people only keep their phones for 2-3 years. There's really no point for replaceable anything in phones. They are just cheap electronic devices with limited usable lifespan. I have kept my previous phone for 5 and half years and battery was still kinda okay. Surely not as good as when it was new, but adequate nonetheless. Batteries don't really degrade that much over years.
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My Pixel 3 that I gave my daughter was still amazing. Battery was shot after me using it for 2 1/2 years. Would had been nice to be able to replace it easily.
 
iPhone XS
 
jayjr1105 said:
My Pixel 3 that I gave my daughter was still amazing. Battery was shot after me using it for 2 1/2 years. Would had been nice to be able to replace it easily.
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I find it hard to believe. It didn't have a good battery life when it was new, it was passable at best. It only took some degradation to make acceptable battery life into unacceptable one.
 
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Note 4 until it died 2 months ago... :fear: I now daily drive the LG V20 H910 flashed US996 to it, used ADB to remove bloatware and use OpenGL Skia :D

Removeable batteries :respect:

I normally kept my phones for 6-8 years a bit less than my laptop's 8-10 years
 
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Mussels said:
Secondary phone is a samsung A21s, which has horrible performance and a crap LCD but amazing AMAZING battery life - we're talking 5 days of regular use, 2 days of non stop video, or multiple weeks without a SIM (as i use it)... it's the perfect spare, in other words
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If by awful LCD you mean that screen has high temperature (way above 6500K kelvins), you can fix that. Go to eye comfort shield and adjust it to what seems decent. All it does is reducing kelvins. Cheap Galaxies tend to have Kelvins cranked up to wazoo. Or you can use vivid screen mode and adjust kelvins that way, there's also advanced mode to adjust each color brightness, but only use it if you have some odd tint. Adjusting kelvins in vivid mode is exactly the same as using basic mode with eye filter.
 
iphone XS and battery still lasts me around 5-6 days
 
iPhone 2020 SE
 
I'm using a LG G4 t mobile Model just bc I can ha. I miss how phones were easy to take apart. That and battery removal. I have batteries to last me a life time *Yes a joke but thanks to a guy who sold a TQTHL 10K Battery for 20$. I have also a 6k from company Perfine in which I used in the past

I just wish ROMs didn't have crappy drivers for the camera
 
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Motorola G7 Power
 
The red spirit said:
I love it when phone was worth 150 USD new and replacement battery is 33 USD /s

That's why no one should buy batteries from iFixit
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No No iFixit at least gives the model of the battery
 
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