Samsung S21. I’m not too invested in it, to be honest. But I don’t really have much against it either. “It’s alright” is as much praise a phone cane get from me these days - It does what I need it to do.
Context: early last year (I think. Maybe it was 2023) I was out and about doing field work as part of my job. My phone (S8 at the time) was severely beaten after years of abuse, and parts of the screen had stopped accepting touch input. One day I woke up in my hotel room and I noticed that my phone hadn’t charged. In addition to being really hard to unlock, no amount of cleaning and troubleshooting allowed me to get it to accept charge.
My S8 used its final burst of compliance for allowing me to call a coworker who handles the “normal” IT in our company. (I’m in charge of the “abnormal” IT), as my employer is contractually obligated to make sure I have a phone. He directed me to a store where I could pick up a handset and they’d be billed.
I went into the store and I was informed what they had available, and landed on an S21, as that was basically what they had as a newer equivalent of my S8. As my coworker had to approve it, I ended up just putting it in speakerphone so I could leave with the new phone with the seller knowing he’d actually be paid.
In all honesty, I stopped caring that much about phones around 2012 - As long as it’sAndroid it’sprobably OK. My Note 2 was excellent and I loved it. But the newer Note versions have a cheap plastic stylus that feels like a bendy toothpick, so I avoid them. So barring a proper Note phone, I find that they’re all the same. I stay with Samsung because that’s what I’m used to - Transfer everything from old to new, and I’m set. Just need to do some USB debugging to remove bloatware, that’s all.
For the record, I had an iPhone in 2009. I fucking hated it. Locked down and underpowered piece of shit that made me feel I didn’t truly own my phone. I’m not a big fan of android either, but at least it’s easy to have it bend to my will.
I also had an Openmoko (Neo Freerunner) in 2007 which was amazing (First production batch!) but as smartphones weren’t really common back then, it needed some polishing. According to Wikipedia, the release date was 2008, but I’m sure I had mine in late 2007.
EDIT: I just realized that the words that I wrote made it seem like I don’t really care about phones, while the length of my comment makes it seem like I absolutely do. Well, I used to. I just don’t care much about the current state of what’s available.
Samsung S21. I’m not too invested in it, to be honest. But I don’t really have much against it either. “It’s alright” is as much praise a phone cane get from me these days - It does what I need it to do.
Context: early last year (I think. Maybe it was 2023) I was out and about doing field work as part of my job. My phone (S8 at the time) was severely beaten after years of abuse, and parts of the screen had stopped accepting touch input. One day I woke up in my hotel room and I noticed that my phone hadn’t charged. In addition to being really hard to unlock, no amount of cleaning and troubleshooting allowed me to get it to accept charge.
My S8 used its final burst of compliance for allowing me to call a coworker who handles the “normal” IT in our company. (I’m in charge of the “abnormal” IT), as my employer is contractually obligated to make sure I have a phone. He directed me to a store where I could pick up a handset and they’d be billed.
I went into the store and I was informed what they had available, and landed on an S21, as that was basically what they had as a newer equivalent of my S8. As my coworker had to approve it, I ended up just putting it in speakerphone so I could leave with the new phone with the seller knowing he’d actually be paid.
In all honesty, I stopped caring that much about phones around 2012 - As long as it’sAndroid it’sprobably OK. My Note 2 was excellent and I loved it. But the newer Note versions have a cheap plastic stylus that feels like a bendy toothpick, so I avoid them. So barring a proper Note phone, I find that they’re all the same. I stay with Samsung because that’s what I’m used to - Transfer everything from old to new, and I’m set. Just need to do some USB debugging to remove bloatware, that’s all.
For the record, I had an iPhone in 2009. I fucking hated it. Locked down and underpowered piece of shit that made me feel I didn’t truly own my phone. I’m not a big fan of android either, but at least it’s easy to have it bend to my will.
I also had an Openmoko (Neo Freerunner) in 2007 which was amazing (First production batch!) but as smartphones weren’t really common back then, it needed some polishing. According to Wikipedia, the release date was 2008, but I’m sure I had mine in late 2007.
EDIT: I just realized that the words that I wrote made it seem like I don’t really care about phones, while the length of my comment makes it seem like I absolutely do. Well, I used to. I just don’t care much about the current state of what’s available.