What Phone do you guys use?

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iPhone 15 here. I gave up on android because Google seemed obsessed with borrowing the most annoying UI features from iOS and just doing them poorly.

Now I’m on the other side and don’t like it here either.

Next phone will be a dumb phone, I think. If my toys always make me angry they’re not good toys for me.

I use Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 4 with Nextcloud backup (self hosted).

You got me, I have GrapheneOS on a pixel 8a. Seems like Android's only getting worse, so I'm going to do my best to never go back now. I've had it for nearly a year and I'm super happy with it, everything works just the way I want it. My only concern is the small battery meaning it often only has 30% charge left by the end of the night.

I have GrapheneOS on a Pixel 9a with everything backed up over NextCloud on a headless Ubuntu rackmount server.

You were waaaaay off 😆

/e/os on Fairphone 4

Just switched to Graphene on a refurbished 10 Pro XL
Prior to that was a RedMagic 10 Pro

Samsung Galaxy S9+

I'm unwilling to get a more modern phone because of all the AI bullshit being shoved into them nowadays. Unlike most of Lemmy, I'm not smart enough to install and fully configure GrapheneOS to work without hiccups. So I remain with this old phone until it quits on me.

Pixel 9 with Graphene OS. I don't really bother with backups besides my personal photos since there's nothing critical on my phone. But I use immich for photos hosted on my unraid server.

I do have two backup Raspberry Pis, one at my house and one at a friend's, that my photos and other critical data is backed up to daily.

I keep buying motorolas because they're rugged as fuck. I get a new one every 3-5 years. They're all the same-ish these days, and rarely come with any sort of incentive or discount, so it doesn't make sense to refesh too often. I try to get my money's worth from my devices.

Can't tell you how many samsungs my kids have broken, but both of their motos still work.

/e/os on Fairphone 6

Motorola with their nearly-stock Android.

Excited about upcoming Motos with Graphene, though =]

Graphene on a Pixel 8a. One of the few currently viable options, in my eyes.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6a

Sony Xperia 1 IV. Their naming scheme is terrible.

Main reason is because I wanted a future-proof, flagship phone with a headphone jack and micro SD card slot. Both have proven very useful, and I am still kind of in shock that most manufacturers have dropped them.

Stock android. Still using the NoVa launcher because I haven't had the free time to try out others, plus my pi-hole seems to block the ads they have been introducing for now.

The Xperia has a weirdly narrow screen. I like it in a vacuum better than todays phablets, but I think the occasional webpage scales weirdly.

Fairphone 6 with Android. Waiting for Motorola+GrapheneOS phone.

I wish. Using a pixel 6 here, not looking forward to when I need to replace it.

Fairphone 6 with e/OS

Lineage OS on a pixel 8

iPhone with plans to switch to GrapheneOS on a pixel soon.

iPhone 14 Pro

Librem 5.

Cons: Storage and RAM small. Battery so-so.

Pros: I haven't seen a single other phone I would rather own. Android and iOS are dumb as hell. Terrible OSes, in my opinion.

I want a Liberty Phone but can't justify the money. This works well enough for me. I will almost certainly be buying the L5 successor.

GrapheneOS on a refurbished pixel 10 from ebay

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a, Google apps in a separate profile, local backup to a separate drive using rsync, notes/calendar/notes synced to nextcloud running on hetzner VPS. So pretty much same as everyone else here.

I need an SD slot and headphone jack so I'm on a Motorola g 25. I got it a couple months ago. It's pretty good so far. I chad an LG v20 prior to that.

S24 Ultra. Will be my last Android with the way things are going.

Being on an iPhone for 11 years and then going to Android was a jaw dropping experience.

But now no more sideloading and Nova Launcher went to shit with ads after the owners sold (out).

I have a pixel 6 pro running the stock OS. I will run it until it is on its last legs and decide where to go next. To use banking and government apps here, I'm somewhat limited in my choices.

S24 FE. I hate all the recent changes Samsung has been doing but this phone should last me until 2030 at least, probably more. I'm also the only person on Lemmy who likes OneUI, and I'm OK with that now that all alternative launchers are enshittifying.

By the time I need to replace it, the market will probably be in an entirely different place and maybe even some Linux versions could be more viable.

I use Immich, bitwarden, mega, and Tuta. Which covers the backup of everything.

Nothing Phone 1, one of the best phones I've ever used, utilise the glyph system often and hope to upgrade at some point to a Nothing Phone 3.

Plus it's not from the US, so perfect for me.

Pixel 6 pro with Graphene OS

Refurbished pixel 7.

I originally wanted to install graphene, but I like the stock firmware enough to stick with it.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 6a. Technically have a few Google apps, but they are only banking/governmental stuff and one gacha game (which I primarily play on a tablet anyway). Too lazy to set up Nextcloud myself, but I do have a VPS I rent... and I used to have a local RasPi running PiHole

I am apparently a bit too uncomfortably close to the exact stereotype OP listed

I honestly don't know. When my phone dies I go to the nearest phone store and ask for the cheapest android phone they have in stock. They ask me what brand I want, what features are important to me--cheapest. They warn me that the camera isn't as good as OtherPhone's--cheapest. And the battery...--cheapest.

If I had to venture a guess I'd say it's a Redmi? And I suppose it's bad.
It was 150€ 4 years ago. I can't fathom sinking 500€ on a phone.

Pixel 9, GrapheneOS

Pixel 8 stock, haven't gotten around to Graphene OS yet and a little worried it won't work with my bank/credit card apps. I think I can revert to stock if things don't work for me so I might try soon.

I really miss my LG G8 though.

iPhone 17

Switched from an iPhone Air to a Pixel 9a with grapheneOS.

Way cheaper, safer, I have learned a ton about security and self hosting and learned to love computers again.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8a

LG G2 (2013) with LineageOS

imma use it till 2038, i even have spares

GrapheneOS on a pixel 8

Pixel 6a stock

I just finished a clean reflash of LineageOS on my Nothing Phone 1 without any closed source apps except for minecraft android (played with a clip on controller). If i find a reliable way to play actual java versions i will remove my google account from my phone and go full open source.

Galaxy S24 ultra here

Nokia n gauge

GrapheneOS on a pixel 8 pro I got second hand a few months back.

Still have an iPhone 12 mini. Will upgrade to like the iPhone 18 pro or something. I'm waiting until this stops getting software updates first.

/e/os/ on a Motorola One 5G Ace.

Galaxy xcover 6 pro. Still have both 3.5mm jack and replaceable battery.

I'm on a Z Flip 😅 so nah you're not the only one on stock Android. I want to grab a Pixel and switch to GrapheneOS, but I'll have to wait until I can afford a new phone and when this one bites the dust since I only got it about a year ago. I unfortunately only found out about Android ROMs and got into cybersecurity shortly after I bought it

uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?

Hey now, it's a Pixel 8 and Raspbian.

Two google apps in a separate profile with a different pin

Oppo Reno 12, running on Android - via Oppo's "ColorOS", which is ok.

Pixel9a with GrapheneOS installed

I use stock android but hate smartphones and only own it because of a previous job that required one but gave a monthly comp so you had to get one. I keep minimal apps on it. have it shutoff most times. I use it for phone calls and camera mostly with maybe maps and calendar. I have f-droid to avoid google apps but the stock camera works better than my alternate app so I use that for photos more.

I use a Samsung S23 with the standard Android system.

iPhone 13 mini, which I will stick with until Apple ships another one-handed phone.

Nothing Phone 2

Don't really like the newer models because the glyphs have decreased loads.

RGB glyphs would be pretty cool, ones you could program yourself

Fairphone4

Im jelly of people who can run GrapheneOS, I can lead others to water but can not drink...

Well google just renabled automatic app updates and it broke a bunch of my apps because I get the pre adware/spyware/buyout version of apps. So ive been in the market the last week for a graphene phone. Seems pretty likely ill get a stock android phone thats supported by grapheneOS and flash it myself, im uncomfortable with buying a pre used $200 phone.

Xiaomi 13t, 1TB storage, Leica camera, bought used.

It's very good, except the insanely aggressive clean up policy; you watch youtube on FF, switch out to check something and back, youtube is gone...

With 8(+8) GB RAM i could probably use it as a daily Linux driver but there is no linux for it. Will switch to like graphene when I can.

/Sorry infodump

stock android on a fairphone 4 - I do use Syncthing for syncing, though

my Raspberry Pis are all resting atm, but I really should set one up with pihole and syncthing again...

Currently using a samsung, looking to jump ship

Stock Pixel 7 here.

Grapheneos on my pixel 9, perfectly complements my PC with Arch :3

iphone 8 😀

Stock Android on Samsung S23 because it was $400 at the time (JB-Hi-Fi had a steal of a deal), and current phone at the time was dead, so I needed something. Otherwise, I'm not sure where I would have gone, but definitely not Apple. All of my workplaces use iPhones and I hate it.

GrapheneOS on Pixel 7.

Love GrapheneOS, not so impressed with the HW quality of the Pixel for the price I paid. I feel my previous Huawei P20 was more durable, and it was a good 200€ cheaper at time of purchase.

Moto G 7 power from 2019. Since it's quite old there are limited options for alternative OSs, so I'm using e/OS. It has its issues but it runs perfectly well.

Redmi note 13pro 5g with cdroid without google services or gapps

iPhone 16 pro…

I mean work gives it to me… and I’m too cheap to buy a personal phone

Using a one plus nord n30 5g with lineage os. It's a super budget phone. Looks like us one plus users are in the minority here.

Rooted Pixel 8 on lineageOS with mindtheGApps, I unfortunately still use some Google stuff, I am slowly de-googling. But I at least get slightly more privacy this way.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7

How do you know???

iPhone 15 pro max

Galaxy A14, which was the only new phone I could afford for 140 Euros (+ 50 Euros for the 512 GB microsd card) that offered the longest security updates.

Thought of getting an used Pixel 2XL and install (now defunct) divestos on it, but then the battery would be certainly dead and didn't want to risk replacing it myself.

Unihertz Jelly Star with its stock Android. Fantastic phone :)

I'm using a Samsung with an android os. I wanted an android phone but couldn't get my hands on one at the time, so this was the next best option.

Old-ish iPhone. Will be getting replaced with a FairPhone, I think.

everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7

Wrong, I use it on a Pixel 6 Pro

and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?

Also wrong, my nextcloud and headless Debian is running on a Proxmox VM

Fairphone 5 with android, I'm contemplating moving to e/os but I need to take the time you do it.

Samsung Z Fold7

iPhone 13 Pro. Planning on replacing the battery if it ever gets too bad, then maybe replacing it with a Fairphone a few years after.

Phone? I largely use my tablet while I'm at home. Don't ask what phone I use when traveling, it's about a joke of a thing that barely works and probably isn't even worth $5 as is, working. But it makes and receives calls and text at least.

Anyways, my tablet is a Maxwest Astro 8R. Also not all that much to brag on, but it's powerful enough to emulate a PSP almost seamlessly. Camera sucks though and doesn't have all that many sensors, not even a compass sensor.

Its running stock Android 11 that came with it, but I've never signed into Google and ive disabled practically all Google apps, including specifically Google Play and related services. F-Droid and sideloaded apps for me, I don't even use the GBoard keyboard, Futo Keyboard for the win!

I'm a scrub using stock Android also. Well, technically stock Samsung, whatever flavor of Android they call that nowadays. In my defense, saying that I "use" my phone at all is generous. I avoid the digital ball-and-chain like the plague, only touch it when I have to (like when some foolish family member calls me). None of my important data, passwords, or accounts will ever touch it unless they give me literally no other choice.

Xiomi. Sue me.

iPhone. Don’t know the model number but it has four cameras and is huge.

Company buys me a pimped up iPhone every two years. I’m due for an upgrade this fall again.

Can’t be arsed to buy a separate one, would buy a GrapheneOS supported one if that didn’t involve giving money to Google

Nothing phone 2a. I like the lights on the back :)

Realme GT 7 Pro

I've been quite happy with it, the package price is great while the software is much less neutered than the Xiaomis I've used before. Fast processor, gargantuan battery and the fast charging up to 120W without heating up the phone much is insane.

Samsung. It's not US nor Chinese.

I have a ZenFone 8 with stock. I love the form factor but I'm mildly annoyed that I can't uninstall certain apps and the QA is poor, never have I been forced to repair a phone this much.

I backup photos via immich, passwords vid bitwarden and run calendar, contacts, notes via nextcloud

I had three straight Pixel phones die from random hardware failures on me in the span of less than two years, so I have high hopes for this Motorola/GrapheneOS collab.

Currently using a Razr foldable. Which has lasted longer than two of the three Pixels put together. Stock Android. Would love to put LineageOS on it instead. Currently no rom for it and I'm not a developer.

EDIT: For backups, I do it the old fashioned way. Periodic device dumps into 3 different desktop/laptop computers. Not optimal, don't have the time or budget to do better right now. Again, I'm not a developer and frankly most of my life is not digital. The parts that are digital aren't a huge deal to me if they aren't airtight secure.

As politics go, I WANT people to know that I'm for trans rights and body autonomy and that I think all republicans deserve the gulag. Please record my full name and details with my convictions on those issues and display them everywhere when I'm gone. I will NOT go down in history lumped in with the masses under "Why didn't regular people fight back? Did they actually support this?" when this regime is studied in school with the scorn and ridicule it deserves. Anyway, I don't put my name out there on purpose with that stuff but if someone links me to the causes I support because there are memes about trans people in my Google account, all the better. I wear pride in public anyway, might as well wear it in private.

GrapheneOS on pixel 8 (terrible phone, hardware-wise) backed up to nextcloud (nextcloud sucks, looking to switch)

Stock pixel 10a

I'd love to be using GrapheneOS, but I refuse to lower my standards to a sub-par device, and certainly wouldn't pay the Google tax for the privilege. So I'm currently using a Galaxy Note9 with NobleROM while hoping against all logic that the Motorola + GrapheneOS partnership doesn't spit out another useless wet fart of a device.

LineageOS on a moto g42. Best phone I ever had!

Not had it for long, but a fairphone 6 (the version thats sold in the US that comes with /e/OS instead of regular android).

Stock Pixel, I do have Nextcloud and other stuff, but I usually don't want to risk bricking my phone and I'm okay with some of the tradeoffs of using Google things, not okay with being shackled to it though so I do have some alternatives setup ready to switch but for the most part I'm okay with the tradeoffs.

Yeah, but they seem to have a decent approach to AI, not slap it on everything.

Xiaomi 17 pro with Hyperos.

Using a Vivo smartphone (the Chinese ROM) for its good cameras (once you disable all the AI "enhancements" to the zoom that makes it all look like a messy oil painting). The OS spin is, in a word, pretty garbage. There's unfortunately no LineageOS support for my device it seems like.

It's got some neat features, but there's a whitelist for SMS apps, meaning I was stuck with the stock one. Additionally, it pops up a security warning whenever you install any app that isn't verified by Vivo, but it doesn't hamper my ability to install apps from F-Droid and Obtainium too much.

Using NextDNS with a few blocklists shows that it phones home to Vivo constantly, Vivo-related links are far and above blocked by NextDNS over anything else on my devices. Not very good for privacy, like at all. It also tells me off for having private DNS and assumes that it's the problem whenever there's a change in the network connection.

I am currently using the Kvaesitso launcher (and I know many like Lawnchair, but I favour the more efficient search-based interface of Kvaesitso) and for a long while it randomly switched me back to the stock launcher. The swipe up gesture also sent me to the home launcher like Kvaesitso was running as an app. It turns out that there's a hidden option in settings to disable that, but it took a lot of looking around online to figure that out. With Kvaesitso, much of the oddities of OriginOS work out better (like the advertisements and Baidu results in the global search). I also disabled the "Origin Island" since it only worked for Spotify and nothing else I used, as well as a few other bits that I didn't really need.

If you want a neat phone that is good for user privacy and all that, Chinese ROM phones aren't the way to go, but dang the camera hardware run circles around anything Apple and Samsung can produce. If you want something that supports custom ROMs, there's of course Fairphones, which are super repairable and use fair materials and labour, but there's plenty of other devices that support LineageOS, iodeOS, e/OS, etc. If you really want to become independent of Google you could also try a phone that supports mobile Linux (like the OnePlus 6)

I do have photos backed up with Immich, and it works quite well!

Pixel 8 here, still running stock Android but rooted to enable a few apps i like and won't give up.

No plans to move to Graphene or Lineage

Lineage OS on a Pixel 4.

iPhone 12 Pro

Stock? Nah.

I have something like a dozen tablets and phones stacked on my desk. I get new ones, but the old ones have enough life in them that I don't just count them as ewaste and wash my hands of them. Only two of those have current lineage available, and I can't be arsed to update what amounts to a picture frame that isn't connected to Wi-Fi. The rest get used as security cameras for very short term use.

Most of them still have the os they came with as, again, I can't be arsed to fiddle with the ones that I could dig up a rom for, or they couldn't be unlocked to do it in the first place. But none of them were ever stock Android. Since when I got them, I favored Samsung and LG tablets, the ui was highly altered from regular AOSP.

Now, my main phone? My absolutely amazing friend gifted me a pixel with graphene ready to go as soon s it reached me. But I do still use some play store apps on it, when I can't find something good enough that isn't (nothing touches poweramp, and I haven't had the budget to put towards a licence for it from the dev, yet. Higher priorities).

Never touched a pi unless it was a pie being shoved down my throat.

Ngl though, if I wasn't lazy as fuck, I'd likely swap to lineage on my older oneplus that's my backup phone. Just don't feel like dealing with the time it would take. So it's as stock as it was when I got it a few years ago. I doubt I'll ever do it unless I get a newer graphene device and it gets retired to the desk for infrequent uses. That's how I end up with a still working Galaxytab 2 lol. Barely still working tbh.

Fold 7, love it for blending OSRS and YouTube.

Agnostic, for development. iOS and Android.

Daily driver is iPhone, but I keep a Pixel with stock Android for staying uptodate with services and latest updates.

Used to keep a phone around to run stock AOSP, but nobody runs that.

i have an iphone and a motorola android. both are about 3 years old

I have an old Realme GT NEO 3 with the stock ROM. There was no LineageOS ROM for it when I got it but there's been one for two years now, so I may give it a try eventually.

The camera is not good but apart from that, it works. I have Google apps installed on this one and use mainly Gmail and Maps. Maps is shitty but I also use openstreetmaps on the web through Firefox. I don't have the YouTube app and watch videos in Firefox, with uBlock Origin, Sponsor Block and Video Background Play Fix. I tend to use the websites, or FOSS apps if possible through F-Droid. No weather app, I just go on the website with ads blocked. But I don't mind paying for some apps that I use if they are useful and don't have ads. Ads are the devil.

And my backups are simple, using FolderSync connecting via SSH on my headless Orange Pi.

Standardpixel, graphene didnt get my car journey or nfc payments

iPhone 16 Pro Max

GrapheneOS is a “someday” that will rely on degoogling ither aspects of my digital life and setting up self hosted solutions for others.

Graphene os on a pixel 6 for work nr and banking apps

Ubuntu touch on a volla Quintus for personal nr and self-flagellation

lineageos on Sony xperia 5 iii

CrDroid on 8 pro.

4 year old OnePlus.

It was a different time!

Fold 5. Battery is getting annoying, so decent odds I pick up the 8 when it drops in the summer. I miss the days when you could just pop a battery out. It's expensive but the larger screen is amazing and I'll probably never go back. I'm not married to having a Samsung foldable specifically, but the only really competitive options are banned in the US.

iphone 17. never used android because i grew up with ios and i really am attached to the ui. im really not interested in switching to graphene or a pixel, at least until it gets better or until iphone is shown to seriously be unsafe. stock iphone is safer than stock android and i’ll stick by my opinion, but i know almost everyone in the privacy space disagrees with me.

Pixel 8 with GrapheneOS (fully degoogled)

Stock android on a Pixel 10. I'm far too lazy to mess with installing operating systems when I don't absolutely have to.

Motorola G73 because I can't afford anything more expensive :(

I removed all the Google apps, but I can't install a custom ROM as none support this device

Moto Edge running Lineage with microG for GPS

I’d never use an iPhone if my phone were my main device—but I just want a phone/camera that I don’t have to think about beyond those specific functions, and for that my iPhone 12 mini works fine.

I have an iPhone Air after renewing my cell plan this year. Its alright

I also have a OnePlus 6T running PostmarketOS but I use it more for tinkering than as a daily driver right now

an older xiaomi with lineage. i have gapps due to compatibility issues.

Pixel 8a because I'm poor, but I do like the camera support.

I like FOSS (etc), but I'm not rabid about it.

/e/-OS on Fairphone 5.

Edit: You're right about the backup though.

The cheapest new iPhone I could buy locally.

Samsung Galaxy Duos running iodéOS.

A Moto G7 Power with LineageOS.

I thought it would be a Fairphone with a Stallman-approved FSF app set.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 10. It's easy to install if you ever want to step up from scrubland.