Greetings, Android aficionados! 📱👋
Today, let’s take a moment to get to know each other better. We’d love to know:
- Which Android devices are you currently using?
- What do you love most about them?
- What do you dislike?
Whether you’re rocking the latest flagship or cherishing a reliable budget device, we want to hear about your experiences. Share the brand, model, and any standout features that make your phone shine. Who knows, you might inspire someone to discover their next Android companion! 🌟💬
Remember, let’s keep the conversation friendly and inclusive. Everyone’s perspective is valuable, no matter the device they use. We’re here to celebrate the diversity within the Android ecosystem and learn from each other.
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Pixel 7a
Vanilla Androie experience, fast updates and I like the visor astetic
Would love faster wireless charging
Samsung Galaxy A31, running Android 12. Its far from the latest or most high end tech but its a tough old bird, and does all I ask of it without complaint. Good screen even with a few cracks, 128Gb memory which I’ve supplemented with a 500Gb SD card for all the music I have downloaded from Deezer. Battery usually lasts two days or more at a stretch. Camera is frankly better than I need. And best of all its got a headphone jack, an absolute necessity. Only downsides are that it wont upgrade to Android 13, 12 is as far as it’ll go, and the USB-C socket is getting a bit knackered. Not bad for an almost three year old phone, hope to get another couple of years out of it
I also have a small budget phone I bought overseas to use as a Wifi hotspot, thing called a Dash L4 LTE. I’m now going to press it into service as a music player when swimming. Its small and light, but grossly underpowered, and only runs Android 7, doubt it’d be capable of more. I’ve put a 64Gb SD card in it again for music, it’ll do the job, but i certainly wouldnt want to use it as my primary phone
Galaxy s21 (the smallest model)
I love that its not gigantic
I dislike the fingerprint reader. I prefer the one on the rear of the phone, like my previous phone had
Me too, it is so hard to find a flagship phone with rear finger print reader. The on screen readers dont register all the time and when they do there is a slight delay. bought after having a pixel phone the touchui is not as good as the pixel one .On the plus side i like how little Samsung s21 weighs.
Samsung M51
Bought it mainly for the 7000 mah battery and this thing can go on for days and charge other devices as well. Overall decent specs for the pric and the long aspect ratio is nice for scrolling lemmy and fits well in hand.
But the biggest problem is its a Samsung bloatware infested mess with minimal user control. I did remove a few really annoying ones with adb commands but I really want to root it or run a custom rom soon. They made the rooting as difficult as possible and formatting everything with backups to root is a tedious task. Samsung isn’t what it used to be, I miss the good old days of early galaxy ones I had.
Currently using Pixel 6a
Likes Price to features especially with the high trade in value of a pixel 3a
Dislikes Fingerprint reader doesn’t work with a glass screen protector
Cell phone reception seems weaker than it should be.
Rocking a Pixel 7 and a Galaxy Watch5.
Loving my Pixel in general and have loved them, mostly, since the 2XL. The Pixel features, like call screening, are useful. Plus it has a great camera. The Watch5 is just a generally nice smart watch, with smooth operation.
I dislike how slippery the Pixel is. I’m otherwise neutral on everything else. The Watch5 has too much Samsung bloat.
Picked up a Motorola Edge+ (2022) somewhat a month-ish ago after giving a Galaxy S23 a go for almost a month before. I just prefer Moto’s experience more, even if updates are sparse and camera quality isn’t as great.
Sure, it’s notably bigger that what I’ve long-term used before (Xiaomi Mi 9 and the 2020 Motorola Edge), but the screen is pretty good and even though the Snapdragon 8 gen 1 is meh foe battery life, I’m not too intense on it and it charges pretty quick when I need a top-off.
The Galaxy S23 just wasn’t my cup of tea. OneUI’s launcher wasn’t tunable the way I wanted, using a custom launcher to get my experience back broke gestures (as expected, but still), and it wasn’t meaningfully smaller width-wise than the Mi 9, which I went back to for a while after I gave my fiancé my Moto Edge (2020).
It’s also pretty damn hard to pass up a brand-new last-gen flagship for $500 plus manufacturer accidental protection 24 months and an extra year extended warranty.
I’ve been eyeing a Lenovo P11 Pro Gen 2 or whatever to replace my HP x2 Chromebook I got a couple years ago. Just don’t need the productivity of ChromeOS anymore, a straightforward media consumption device that I can also use for pen note taking for TTRPGs is all I really need these days, and it looks like it’ll fit the bill.
also because OneNote for Android isn’t available for ChromeOS (at least it hasn’t been afaik) and the app I’ve been using, Squid, is just kinda ok at the task.
This got me wondering what I’m using … apparently it’s a Moto G5s with Android 7?
I like it because it didn’t come loaded with extra software, it was cheap (80€ in 2019) and it’s got a nice camera. In a few years I might think about replacing it, in which case I’d like something a bit smaller.
I’ve got a tablet too, which is a Lenovo that fell off the back of a lorry in Hungary and my MIL bought it for me for the equivalent of 30€. It works well too, I think it’s got Android 8 on it.
You’re running pretty old versions of Android, don’t you have issues with apps not being supported?
Not that I know of? I have Connect and Liftoff for Lemmy running fine, Tomb Raider Go and Pocket Rally work nicely, Firefox is supported, etc etc. I have a HTC with Android 1.2 on it that I use for Google Maps, which works better than the Android 7 phone, so I’m not entirely convinced that new is always better, lol
Xiaomi Poco F2 Pro (Redmi K30 Pro). I honestly only really got it because it had a wild discount on AliExpress back in 2020 and wanted to give MIUI a try. However since then I’ve put TWRP and a custom ROM on it (MIUI isn’t terrible but it seems to kill apps far too much and I’m not big on the ads within the actual OS).
I continue to use it because it still performs great and the battery life is pretty good (usually get about 2 days charge on it), and the custom ROM community around it is pretty reliable too. Plus it has a pop up camera so I definitely know when my phone is trying to look at me.
Not really found much to dislike to be honest, though I guess the camera could be a bit better. It’s definitely helped along with good software though (especially either GCam or the MIUI camera).
Have you had the connector between the battery and the charging connector fail yet? If not, it might be a good idea to stock up one one. I’ve had to replace mine once and it might be failing again just six months later.
No, I’ve honestly never heard that be a thing for this phone. Do you drop it frequently or something? Never had any charging issues.
Great, let’s hope it stays that way. The problem seems to be somewhat common from what I’ve read. I try to take care with charging it but it seems to be bend related, at least I was able to charge my phone only when it was bent a bit backwards when it was giving up.
My friend’s one broke in less than a year and for some reason they were given their money back without anyone even trying to fix it.
I’m using a pixel 6 pro.
I absolutely love the camera quality
There’s nothing I dislike really. It’s an amazing phone that checks every box for me. I suppose if I could, I would improve the battery life. On a heavy day I go to bed with about 15% battery. Which is too close for comfort for some.
I’m using a Samsung Galaxy S22 because it literally was/is the smallest flagship on the market. If there were a flagship option with a 4-5" screen I would probably snap that up immediately.
I love the full-face screen with small symmetrical bezels. Performance is good. Wireless charging. Decent fast charge. Good cameras.
Don’t love that it could be smaller. The camera module makes it rock when flat. I wish the back were not glass. Not a huge fan of the One UI stuff, but it’s not the worst either.
Man, I miss smaller phones. Still running my s10e. Got a fairphone 4 when I had to renew my contract but quickly got back to the s10e because of the camera and, more importantly, the size. With the s10e’s battery starting to really degrade, I’m now looking for a phone and they’re all too big! S22 is on my list, which is only slightly bigger than the s10e. Would have bought the Xperia 10 V, if it had a better camera and wireless charging, even though it’s sony’s low end device, just because it is kind of small. I’m even considering switching to an iPhone SE, just because I can’t seem to find higher end small android phones. What kind of hands do people think I have?
Don’t go iPhone SE, go iPhone Mini if you do switch. I will not switch, i already tried iOS again recently but there’s too many irritating things that sent me running back to Android (please no one ask me to start listing them all). But if it can fit for you, go Mini.
Right now I’m using a pink S21 unlocked and I love it.
The theming system on Samsung is one of my favourite things and I don’t know why Google hasn’t co-opted it.
The only thing I wish it had was a more flexible One UI launcher that’s closer to Nova.
@Curated_Android Samsung A52 5G. Solid phone for the price.
I’m using a OnePlus 6
It’s really fast and has a headphone jack, and you can get a second-hand one for really cheap (I got mine for ~170$). The preinstalled software sucks, but I’ve installed LineageOS on it and I’m really enjoying it
The only thing I don’t like is that the battery is non-removable
Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite running LineageOS 20 (Android 13) (official).
I feel absolutely blessed by the device maintainers that keep Lineage alive and current on this phone. It runs amazing considering its lower speced hardware.
I picked this phone because it has NFC, an IR blaster, notification LED and a 3.5mm jack!
Not sure how the flagships brands justify leaving those features out
My only complaint is the camera which is very average but I knew that before I purchased so I can’t really complain.
How does Netflix and banking apps play with LineageOS?
My phone will get its last security update this month, so I’m thinking to jump ship.
You can use Magisk to get around those restrictions of you have issues.
There are also SafetyNet fixes you can flash post Lineage install that get around that sort of thing but it is a back and forth as Google is continually patching holes in their security.
My banking apps work fine, including Google Pay.
It will make your life harder.
