I used the LG V-series until they stopped making phones. They never dropped the headphone jack or micro sd slot. Great flagship phones, imo. Sad they gave up on the market.

For my latest phone I went with an Asus ROG phone for the headphone jack, extra USB port, and bigger battery. But Asus is exiting the phone market too.

Which brand do you guys want me to kill next?

I have a nothing phone 1. Had it for almost 4 years. I like their design and the OS is pretty bloat free.

Fairphone with e/OS is probably gonna be my next phone

Fairphone A lot of people want graphene but E/OS is there for the fairphone…

Or any of the other alternative is.

Actually I wonder why the graphene people don’t develop for FP. Seems like a better Plattform than to throw google some money for their pixels

none. its so frustrating that we have such a neat technology that is so dystopic now.

OnePlus is still my favorite, even though they’re nearly impossible to get in the US. I broke the screen on my 9 Pro (I fell and smashed it between my hip and a rock) and had to replace it with a Samsung. Two of my friends got 9 Pros and love them. Another friend got a 7 Pro in 2019 and is still happy with it. That something like 84 in phone years. :-)

I started out with Motorola phones and I suspect I’ll be going back the next time I buy. Unless I figure out a way to get a OnePlus at a reasonable cost.

Fuck Google, but I have a Pixel for GrapheneOS.

Basic ass answer, but I really enjoy my iPhone. I can’t quite make the switch to a pixel running graphene, so it works really good for me.

Data points ya’ll

One that doesn’t take away bootloader unlocking

Loved my Droid with the slide out keyboard. After that I went to LG and had those for a while I liked being able to easily unlock the bootloader to root, plus the knock code unlock was really nice. Anymore rooting is to much of a pain and custom roms tend to break online banking. With the discount I get on the phones my carrier provides I’ve been using Samsung because of the software update policy.

If someone was to have something similar to the S26 Ultra with a slide out keyboard and similar specs and support for around 650 I would switch.

Even when I had a physical audio jack I used Bluetooth so not a huge deal to me and hasn’t been for years. MicroSD card support would be nice but I’ve got like 200GB of storage available and when I was in Mexico I transferred video to my 4TB hdd anyway. Not to mention that I could have just left the video on the MicroSD in my camera if I had one large enough but the cost wasn’t worth it.

For the junk software I just remove it via adb or Canta with Shizuku. I don’t use windows or Microsoft services so those things just go away.

I don’t really have any brand loyalty.

I love Sony phones. But Sony doesn’t love me (exited the North American market, expensive AF).

I’m clinging to my Xperia 5 IV as long as I can.

My s10 is super old, but if offers

• qi
• reverse qi
• 3.5mm jack

That’s my list.

What’s my favourite brand? Whichever offers those three in a model.

I miss the Nexus line of phones.

I love Motorola. I miss droids, specifically, but that’s a bygone era unfortunately. I’ve tried all sorts of different brands and haven’t found another that uses gesture controls like Moto does. Chop chop for flashlight, wiggle wiggle for camera? So damn handy. I’ve had a Samsung for the last while and while you can (kinda) program the buttons, it’s such a lame imitations.

Just give me a new droid that is smaller than 5.5", please.

I’ve had nothing but Pixels since the first one launched.