Your current and next phone. - Smartphone general

[Miller]

Isn't it just some hyped influencer phone that others haven't been able to get their hands on?
I do like the back cover style though.

I'm kinda interested as my oneplus 6 is starting to wear out. Seems like a good balance of features/price and my monkey brain likes the lights. I'm trying to avoid buying anything chinese though

Yeah I like the lights in the back too, the gimmick reminds me of my old Nexus 5. I wish more phones had that feature.

 

[0ctober lust]

My current phone as of now is a walmart straight talk phone, it's decent and perfect for $95. I've had it for about 4 years, it's starting to die so I'm just going to buy another walmart phone for the future. I don't have the money to throw around for a expensive flagship phone.

 

[Turd Cow]

My current phone is a Motorola G7 Power, which wasn't even what I wanted vecayse Verizon didn't have the G6. Probably should have went with the E6 but I ended up picking this one on a whim to move on from my LG K20 Plus. After 3 years of use this phone still works and the battery hasn't remarkably blown up yet. But, this is supposedly "Stock Android" which at the time was the reason I bought the phone. It didn't have any Verizon bloat but there was no generic apps, and instead all of the basics we're covered by our friend Google. There's no default notes app installed nor is there a default music player. Or anything that isn't tangibly connected to Google one way or another. Now I did installed the apps I wanted to replace those pesky Gapps invading my privacy. I even used the adb tool to "delete" the bloatware, because I couldn't root the phone. I don't really think adb deletes the apps but it at least prevents the apps I don't want from running in the background. Still, android likes to chew up my 3 gb of ram like it's nothing.

For the next phone I contemplating on getting a Kyrocera Duraxv extreme ir the Sonim xp3+, depending if stay on Verizon or move to T mobile. I know both phones are expensive but the cheaper options are kinda shit tbh. I bought an Alcatel flipphone from a garage sale and it feels cheap as hell, and the hing was a cracked a quarter way.

 

[1996 Toyota Camry]

Current phone: iPhone XS Max, very happy with it, only intend to replace it when it completely dies.
Next phone: iPhone 12 Pro Max, dont plan to ever buy in to the current generation iPhone, ill go with what i know is at least half decent from a year or 2 of testimonials online

As for phones i bring across international borders, whatever i can find for sale locally and i can easily restore on the way to the airport

 

[January Cyst]

Currently using a Poco X3 NFC, bought it almost 2 years ago for less than $200.
The hardware (SD732G, 1080p 120hz display, 6 GB Ram, very good cam, large 5100 mAh battery with 33W fast charging) is still very quick for browsing even with a lot of tabs open and running other things in the background.
The only real downside was MIUI which is not only bloated and slow but has plentyful CHICOM spyware embedden.
, but this was easily remedied by installing a custom Rom (Like Lineageos with MicroG or Pixel Experience if you're into the Google).

 

[Zookerton]

I'm still using an Samsung S10E. I haven't really seen anything with smartphones that makes upgrading beyond it that lucrative. Smartphones these days just all seem the same. I do want to get a Pixel phone so I can install calyx OS or something less spooky.

 

[Basil Julep]

I do want to get a Pixel phone so I can install calyx OS or something less spooky.

Take a look at GrapheneOS. It's way more secure than Calyx and you can run multiple profiles. You can set up a profile with absolutely no google anything and another profile that has google framework/services if you need it for a particular app.

There is some tweet by Snowden where he endorses it. "If I were configuring a smartphone today, I'd use @DanielMicay's @GrapheneOS as the base operating system. "

 

[The Last Stand]

I had a Google Pixel 2XL. Battery began to degrade after three years so I wanted the new Pixel 6.

Verizon talked me into getting a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra with trade-in. Camera is much more impressive than Google's offering. Screen is bigger, cleaner and sharper. Battery life, questionable.

 

[spastic_bag]

Galaxy S20 Ultra currently, to be replaced by the Galaxy S24 Ultra unless the S20 dies early.

 

[Ben Affleck]

I have an S21 but I hate the phone so im probably going back to Sony and getting an Xperia 1 IV or III I haven't decided yet.

 

[Kabobs]

I have an S21 but I hate the phone so im probably going back to Sony and getting an Xperia 1 IV or III I haven't decided yet.

I'd choose a Sony as they're the only high-end phones that still retain the headphone jack and the microSD card slot AFAIK.

 

[Newman's Lovechild]

My best phone was a Samsung Galaxy Note 4. The s pen turned it into a convenient sketchpad, among other things. I could pop the back off and replace the battery when that inevitably started turning funky, the last Note phone that allowed you to do that. I did that until the phone itself started going weird.

Phones I've had since then are low to mid stopgaps. The Nokia one was absolute shit. I get these consoomery feelings when I look at the Z Fold but they quickly dissolve because holy shit the price.

 

[Dreamland]

I have a dented and cracked android (mi 9t) that has seen a few makeshift repairs.
I'm not sure what phone i would want if this thing falls apart.

Apple won't let me use the right applications (syncthing, termux, waterfox, mpv),
Android has gone to absolute shit after the last two updates with the introduction of SAF lag, removal of pull-down toggles and a UI designed by chimps.

 

[Ahriman]

Google Pixel 7 review: The most refined Pixel yet

The Pixel 7 stays true to Google’s new design language

www.androidpolice.com

On Oct 6th the Pixel 7 comes along... coming from an old cheap-ass phone, I look forward to installing GrapheneOS on one of these bad boys.

 

[F-35 Lightning II]

Galaxy S20 Ultra currently, to be replaced by the Galaxy S24 Ultra unless the S20 dies early.

Similar, every couple years I'll get a flagship Samsung and it lasts a while, and I get new tech. S5, s8+, and now the s21u.

 

[DrNow]

I want to migrate from iphone, but given I'm a brokie so I want to know exactly what I'm getting into before I commit to a new phone. The main things I want are something with a headphone jack, something that'll last at least four or five years, and something I can make more secure than an iphone, degoogling etc. I'm leaning towards Samsung as I guess you can install new OS's on those phones, unlike iphone?

 

[Basil Julep]

I want to migrate from iphone, but given I'm a brokie so I want to know exactly what I'm getting into before I commit to a new phone. The main things I want are something with a headphone jack, something that'll last at least four or five years, and something I can make more secure than an iphone, degoogling etc. I'm leaning towards Samsung as I guess you can install new OS's on those phones, unlike iphone?

Android phones rarely get patches for five years. I think Pixel 6, 6a, 7 have support that long. If you are wanting secure, GrapheneOS is the way to go, but that is only on Pixel.

I think the Pixel 5A was the last one with a headphone jack but you are only going to have two years of support with 5a.

 

[Broken Printer]

Currently got Nokia 8 (Android 9) and was thinking of getting Nokia G60, since I haven't been getting security updates in over 2 years now, and been recently having some weird issues with my phone (app icons disappearing from home menu and login screen sometimes switches off when trying to login, requiring restart for example). Not expensive and runs regular Android so seems good enough for me. Though I'm completely clueless if there are better options out there, N8 worked just fine for me these years. Had it since 2018. G60 seems like a good phone (back plate looks like shit but whatever). Either that or G11 if I decide to go with a really cheap option.

 

[batigol]

iPhone 10 at the moment. Next phone will likely be what Graphene is running on which will be whatever the newest Pixel is.

 

[El Goblina]

Current phone is a Moto G Play I picked up for $200CAD at Costco, with a 256GB uSD for my music. Recently bought a 1TB for an upgrade. This will be my last Android phone, hopefully. Android is worse today than iOS used to be years ago.

My future phone (which is currently sitting around waiting for me to actually get on with it, too busy) is a Pine64 PinePhone. Runs straight Linux.

The way off the Android plantation is to stop aiming for compatibility.