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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.)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sony Xperia 1 III.

Bought it used a few months ago. It checks all the boxes I want in a phone (notification LED, headphone jack, no notch, expandable memory) so I'm satisfied with it, but it took some tinkering to get it to behave the way I wanted it to. Setting a specific notification color/pattern wasn't supported in settings so I had to use GravityBox to do that, same with swapping the back and recent buttons and a whole assortment of minor things. In particular, the physical Google Assistant button was useless to me and required even more of a workaround, but in the end I managed to make it a flashlight toggle instead.

Previously, I used a OnePlus 6. Loved the phone but its battery was on the way out. Before that was a ZTE Axon 7, which I wasn't overly fond of (only used it for a year and a half and I usually only buy new phones when forced to from battery issues) but bought as a stopgap after my beloved OnePlus 1 grew too dated and ran into battery issues. Before that was my first phone, a Galaxy SIII.