So, I thought I’d kick things off here with some community building.

Quote this post with answers to the below!

What phone are you using?

Are you happy with it? What are its best and worst qualities?

Which phones have you had previously? Which were the best and worst of the lot?

How often do you upgrade to a new phone?

What other Android ecosystem devices do you have? Watches, headphones/earbuds, etc.

Do you also use any Apple products, or are you Android all the way? (And/or Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, etc.)

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    Pixel 7 Pro.

    I’m generally happy with it, but the battery has been rather bad in that I have issues getting a full day out of it. I’ve also finding overheating issues when in 80+ degree F weather.

  • bobaduk@lemmy.world
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    Asus ZenFone 8.

    I love it, it’s a nice bit of kit, and the few gimmicks it has are useful: scheduled charging for better battery life, digital well being stuff to stop me being glued to my phone.

    Battery would be a problem for a super power user, but lasts me all day with commuting, reading the web etc. Camera is not on a par with flagships but I rarely take pictures.

    Prior to this I had a Huawei until the battery died on me. I upgrade when I have to, I hate consumer upgrade cycles.

    I have zero android ecosystem products.

    I’m Android/Linux all the way unless work force me to use a Mac, which happens periodically, as part of the great cycle of life.

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    I use the Pixel 7 Pro

    I love it. The cameras are unparalleled, the software is excellent, and the experience is pure. Battery life isn’t nearly as bad as people say, but it could be better.

    Last few phones: iPhone 5c, Galaxy S5, Nexus 6P, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 5, Pixel 6 Pro

    Worst was the 6P, because it bricked itself (though I got a few hundred dollars back in the class action lawsuit), but it was excellent aside from that. iPhone got a dead pixel within a month, but they replaced it, Galaxy was sturdy but software was awful. Best was Pixel 2 XL, I still use it as a backup sometimes.

    I get a new phone every year if the trade-in deals are good.

    I have the Pixel Watch and Pixel Buds. I mainly use the Sony XMs though for headphones.

    I have a 14" MacBook Pro M1 Pro. Got it for the insane battery life, but I’m mostly a Windows/Linux user still.I have an iPad, it isn’t bad, but I miss the affordable Android tablets of old (Nexus 7 rocked). I don’t have any desire to move to iOS.

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    What phone are you using? Huawei P50 Pro

    Are you happy with it? What are its best and worst qualities? Absolutely love the phone, I’m not big on voice assistants or ecosystems so I don’t need Google to be connected across all devices and have everything linked together.

    As a phone it started out rough, loss of connection very frequently, dropping calls every day. After a few months these issues resolved on there own, which may have been a carrier issue and not the phone itself. Browsing and interacting with it is seamless, games run fast, apps rarely shutdown. The Camera is spectacular, the only rival is my gfs Iphone 13 but both are amazing. The only limiting factor is small amount of unavailable apps due to the lack G.P.S. but I’m not effected I just go to the mobile site instead.

    Which phones have you had previously? Which were the best and worst of the lot? Huawei Nexus 6P Huawei P20 Pro

    How often do you upgrade to a new phone? Every 3 - 4 years

    What other Android ecosystem devices do you have? Watches, headphones/earbuds, etc. Not sure if they count but I have a TicWatch Pro 3 and EVA Earbuds

    Do you also use any Apple products, or are you Android all the way? (And/or Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, etc.) Nope, no apple for me, Windows 10.

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    Samsung galaxy S21. I really enjoy it and has worked perfectly. I like Samsung rendition of Android, I feel like it gives me a larger overview of settings and so forth. I’ve had an iphone 6 and Huawei Mate 20 lite. My problem with the iphone was that i didn’t really understand it, and the app library was limited. The Huawei became slow fast, but that might just be because of it being the lite edition. In edition to the Samsung S21 i also own a Samsung galaxy watch 5 and a pair Samsung buds 2. Both these works great, and i really enjoy Samsungs health app wich is how the watch connects to the phone. The buds are even compatible with my windows computer :)

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      @MrCenny the mate 20 life’s processor just hasn’t held up particularly well, my smol huawei tablet has a similar setup and modern apps just make it choke. It can do one thing at a time okay, but multi tasking is a no go.

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        Yeah, it just got slower and slower by the years. At some point i couldnt even load up my emails, and that was when I had to switch phones. BUT it did actually last 3 years!

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    I’ve had my oneplus 8t for the last couple years and am very happy with it

    Only interest I have in switch off of it would be for a folding phone, but those are just way too expensive atm

  • Sephi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    S22+. Got an insane deal on a like new refurbished model, so it seemed like a no-brainer.

    It’s a phone. Most nondescript phone I’ve ever used. Nothing about it is amazing, but no major complaints. Even the battery is fine for me, despite a lot of people complaining about poor battery life on the S22 series.

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      Another S20FE here. I’ve had new phone fever recently, but I keep having to ask myself…what exactly am I going to gain from spending almost a grand on a new S23.

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    Motorola Edge 30 Pro (aka Motorola Edge+ 2022 for the North Americans here), which I got back in early November last year. I did research for a while before buying it (and got it with a huge discount) and I’m mostly happy with my purchase, it’s a nice phone with a clean near-stock Android experience (although I’ve since changed launcher to Kvæsitso) and it’s extremely fast, although I must say I’m not a heavy smartphone user.

    Worst things are that the Android 13 update took nearly three months long than planned to come (and here in Italy apparently we were among the first to get the update) and Motorola is not that fast with security updates; while the only really annoying thing is that sometimes it stops the internet connection usually after giving the command to download/update apps, whether from the Play Store or from F-Droid; the connection somehow is still there as it’s enough to cancel and tell do download/update again and everything works.

    This is my first Android phone: my first smartphone was a Nokia X6 running Symbian which I got in 2011 and then I used iPhones for a decade (while having been a Mac user all the time), first an iPhone 5C in 2013 and then an 8 Plus which I got in 2018. Clearly the newest was the best of the bunch as it was a quite major upgrade from the 5C, which in turn came when Symbian was an abandoned OS; the last two phones both lasted me just short of five years, and I changed back in November mainly because I could hand it down (refurbished) to my mom, otherwise I would have waited perhaps another year.

    This time I decided to leave iOS for good as I was increasingly unsatisfied and worried with Apple’s walled garden ecosystem - for the same reason I had already left macOS for Linux back in 2020 (never had any other Apple products nor subscriptions except for a few iPods over the years) - and even after the novelty has worn off I vastly prefer Android. Right now I have this Android phone and my laptop I’m writing from, which only runs Linux, specifically EndeavourOS, although my old 2009 iMac still works - thanks to a SSD swap back in '17, although it hasn’t gotten newer updates since High Sierra - and I tinker with it from time to time. At work I use Windows 10… but that’s not my choice.

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    I’m currently running the Pixel 6 Pro with Graphine OS.

    Worst thing about this phone is the curved display. Everything else is good enough for me, which is saying a lot. I’ve had many phones over years and only a few have really been awesome.

    In no particular order:

    • HTC EVO Shift, EVO 4G LTE, EVO 3D
    • Some ZTE Phone with android 2.2
    • Oneplus One, 3T, 6T
    • Pixel 4, Pixel 6 Pro
    • Nexus 4, 5, 5x, 7
    • iPhone 4, SE, 7, 12

    Edit: format and a device

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    • Current phone is Poco F2 Pro

    • I’m okay with it. Performance is nice but there is a lot of bloatware. Battery could last longer but I guess everyone wants more battery am I right? The price per hardware was very good, don’t regret buying it.

    • I had One Plus 3T, Nexus 5, Samsung Galaxy S2… I’m sure I’m forgetting one. Best one was probably the One Plus 3T, back then the One Plus prices were so nice. Sad.

    • I try spend an average of 100 euros a year on smartphones. I bought my phone for 400 euros, must last at least 4 years. Never in a rush to swap, I only do it when the battery no longer lasts me a full day.

    • No other Android devices. I constantly try to come up with use cases to justify buying a smart watch but honestly I just can’t an actual good use to justify constantly having to charge it.

    • I have a 10 year old MacBook that is on its last legs. Battery time is pretty miserable right now. Other than that I just use Windows. I dabbled with a couple of Linux distros but I’m just not into it. I like Windows.

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    Pixel 4a 5G. It’s old and overheats like crazy and my Android Auto doesn’t work half the time, but it has all my 2FA for work which is going to be a massive headache to replace when that time finally comes. Probably going with another Pixel though.

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      you should consider Aegis for 2FA, you can export all your keys to a file (encrypt able) that you can store on a USB!