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Favorite smartphone

2013 Moto X as it was the absolute perfect size for me and the best feeling phone I've used. Performance was and still is excellent. Probably the most well rounded phone I've used.

iPhone 4S because I loved the design and it was a great phone at the time and still holds up Ok for being a 2011 device. If it would have shipped with LTE (which it should have as a lot of phones were starting to roll out with it at the time) then it would hold up even better.

Those would have to be my top two.
 
Lots of favorite phones! No particular order, except for the Treo which will always have a special place in my heart.

1. Treo 650 - had this for 3 years
2. Sony Ericcson P900
3. Sprint HTC Mogul
4. HTC Touch Pro II
5. HTC Evo
6. Samsung Galaxy Note 3
7. Sony Xperia Z1 Compact
8. iPhone 4
9. iPhone 6/6 Plus
10. HTC One
 
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Favorite phone of 2014: I'm gonna go HTC one M8, even though I'd prefer it to have a bigger screen.

Favorite Phone Ever: Much tougher question, maybe the original Galaxy Note just because I thought it was such a great idea, and the continued success of the line proves that it was.
 
Imate SP5 ... Amazing screen for it's time and very reliable for a WM phone.
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Treo 750 ... The toughest smartphone I've owned. Even tougher than most dumb phones I've owned.
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Treo Pro ... I still have this phone. It was my last phone before I went to the iPhone 3GS.
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iPhone 4 & 4S ... My favorite iPhone design. The back glass felt good in hand.
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Samsung S4 ... Probably the longest I went without switching phones. Served me well. Now a backup phone and I plan on loading it with a Lollipop custom ROM.
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Note 4 ... Best smartphone I've ever owned thus far.
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LIVEFRMNYC said:
Imate SP5 ... Amazing screen for it's time and very reliable for a WM phone.
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Treo 750 ... The toughest smartphone I've owned. Even tougher than most dumb phones I've owned.
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Treo Pro ... I still have this phone. It was my last phone before I went to the iPhone 3GS.
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iPhone 4 & 4S ... My favorite iPhone design. The back glass felt good in hand.
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Samsung S4 ... Probably the longest I went without switching phones. Served me well. Now a backup phone and I plan on loading it with a Lollipop custom ROM.
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Note 4 ... Best smartphone I've ever owned thus far.
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Damn you...do not post that note 4! I am trying to not buy a new phone every 3 months. Whenever I see that note I feel like I "need" it.
 
Jspring86 said:
Favorite phone of 2014: I'm gonna go HTC one M8, even though I'd prefer it to have a bigger screen.

Favorite Phone Ever: Much tougher question, maybe the original Galaxy Note just because I thought it was such a great idea, and the continued success of the line proves that it was.
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How do you balance between an iPhone 6 Plus and a Note 4? Do you just change SIMs every other day?!
 
soulreaver99 said:
I do that sometimes too. iMessage makes transitioning a hassle. Apple should just make their services multiplatform like Google!
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Very true. If you forget to turn it off, it can be a nightmare. It looks like they are being sued for it though.
 
theapplefanboyj said:
My current phone, the OnePlus One. It's my first flagship I've ever bought and it just kicks ass everywhere. It's spoilt me because of the fast ram and everything and I love the smoothness of the os and the experience when reading ebooks. If only OnePlus released a tablet. =D
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It's not really a flagship, though, is it?
 
Had to bump up this old thread after reading this blog and all the comments -

http://mblog.gsmarena.com/look-personal-mobile-history-editorial/

^^ A trip down memory lane.

Made me miss my Nokia N82. It wasn't my favorite but it was my first smartphone. And you can never forget about your first. Of all the phones that I bought and sold, I had the biggest regret selling that one. The buyer who bought it from me was a really cool guy though. I also regret updating the firmware as battery and photos got worse. Mine was the silver model and I never saw anyone carry that phone. That was the phone I should've kept for the rest of my life. It came out in late-2007 but still better than the BlackBerry Storm 9530 from a year later! Nobody wants this Storm for $20 so I will end up using it as a music player. But the N82 is the one I would rather have seven years later...
 
mattopotamus said:
That is what I do with multiple phones. Get a nano Sim and use adapters if a phone has a different SIM size.
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Same here. I use my Note 4 for a couple weeks......miss my 6+. So I swap sims and use the 6+ for a while until miss the other phone. Wash rinse....repeat....
Sorry didn't see this was a year ago....
 
jamezr said:
Same here. I use my Note 4 for a couple weeks......miss my 6+. So I swap sims and use the 6+ for a while until miss the other phone. Wash rinse....repeat....
Sorry didn't see this was a year ago....
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Well I had the Note 4 and moved to the ip6 plus and now I am going back to the Note 4 instead. And I have the Nexus 6.

Looks like my older Iphones will be my go to devices for IOS cause I sold my Plus. I really do not do anything on one platform I can't on another. My iTunes library is very small.
 
AppleRobert said:
Well I had the Note 4 and moved to the ip6 plus and now I am going back to the Note 4 instead. And I have the Nexus 6.

Looks like my older Iphones will be my go to devices for IOS cause I sold my Plus. I really do not do anything on one platform I can't on another. My iTunes library is very small.
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I hate itunes.......but it does provide me a place to store my music and playlists that i can use for a multitude of devices. I can use it for my Apple devices of course. My ipad iMac and MBP. But i can also sync all of my Android phones with it as well. I do not buy music through itunes. But i can still add any music from other sources.
My 6+ is my IOS presence and my N4 Android. Looking forward to the S6 Edge in a couple of weeks.
My 2 favorites phones so far have been phablets the N4 and 6+.
 
That GSM editor really loved that Nokia N82. It ranks maybe my #6 favorite phone ever. I preferred playing Crash Team Racing and Frozen Bubble on it over most touch screens including iPhone because of its keypad. And Xenon flash which is rare even today was stronger than its spiritual successor, the N8.

Two weeks prior in owning N82, I got a $150 Sony CyberShot DSC-W55 for Christmas. I took both gadgets to San Francisco, and they actually took near identical shots since both use a Carl Zeiss sensor. The only advantage the Sony CyberShot had was optical zoom as N82 photos always looked like it was taken from far away. But N82 had other advantages being a smartphone like Wi-Fi, games, and always being with me.

A short time after my SF trip in Jan ’08, I lost the CyberShot. Couldn't find it and ended up getting a Canon PowerShot SD1100 the following year before I visited Japan. Eventually I sold the Canon in 2013 and had to live without any dedicated camera for the last 18 months.

Just last week while moving stuff to the new house, my Stepfather actually found that CyberShot. For SEVEN years I thought I had lost it. This was a longer MIA than my RAZR V3 which was lost for two years inside our home theater. It was hidden in my Stepfather's office inside a drawer. Thank goodness, I still have its charger and some PSP memory stick pro duos.

So seeing this Sony CyberShot seven years later reminds me of its old travel partner in SF, the N82. And this time, I will keep it as a reminder. Long live the N82!
 
1. My Note 4; the Display, the Battery life, the S Pen and its features, the Build Quality, the fast charge up, and the Camera, all just incredible. I took a big leap from my S4 and wasn't sure if I'd be able to deal with the size yet 6months in and I am very happy and don't feel its large size, its normal to me now.

2. My old Galaxy S3, I unfortunately broke it one crazy drunken night, but out of all phones I have owned in terms of ergonomics the S3 was the best with its curves and rounded edges it is by far the most 'palm friendly phone' I have ever had, mix that with how lite and smooth it was, such a pleasure it was to use.

3. My Nokia N80, this was my very 1st smartphone and true convergence device, it had WiFi, 3G and EDGE, a 3MP Camera, +250ppi display, and compact design, such a feature combo was extremely rare back in 2005, Nokia did a brilliant job with it and it was ultimately the phone that was the base of the famous N95. Still have my N80 but its flex cable gave in many years ago, a typical problem with slider phones.
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It's weird. With mobile technology, I am not as nostalgic. I usually feel that whatever is my current daily driver is my current favorite. Same applies to my favorite software. For a time, Jelly Bean was my favorite Android version until I moved to KitKat. And now KK is my fav until I try out Lollipop or Muffin. In other forms of entertainment, I always feel when I was younger was better. Like late-80's to early 90's had the best wrestlers and hip hop. My fav era of video game consoles was the 6th gen starting with the SEGA Dreamcast. My all-time NBA player was obviously Michael Jordan. I grew up on Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson. Favorites is usually based on nostalgia.

With mobile phones, latest is greatest to me. Maybe because with phones, I started late (1999) and generally don't keep them long enough to feel attached. It takes about 18 months and maybe I start to feel some sentimental value. By that time, battery starts degrading though. Only the Samsung Focus I had for only 5 months remained a Top 5 fav. My next favorite will probably be whatever next flagship I will get. I owned about the same amount of phones as the GSM Arena editor of 25+ phones since I was 19. I would say less than half of them I really liked. The others were just temp jobs or just awful devices to use even back then.

The ones I really liked -
Xiaomi Mi 3 (2013)
HTC One (2013)
Apple iPhone 4 (2010)
Google Nexus One (2010)
Samsung Focus (2010)
Nokia N82 (2007)
Apple iPhone 5s (2013), didn't have it long
MyPhone QTV28 (2011)
Apple iPhone (2007)
Sanyo SCP-5500 (2004)
Nokia 3360 (2001)

Everything from Motorola RAZR, BlackBerry Bold 9000, and whatever I owned I didn't really care for. Like many so-called friends, they just come and go. The most bearable phone for me to go back to is still the Xiaomi. I can't go back to the M7's camera and battery life. I can't go back to the 128 MB RAM from the og iPhone. Or any device without apps and Wi-Fi. My favorite ERA of smartphones is the current one. Maybe 10 years from now that tech has truly matured and the current jump isn't as drastic like graphics from PS2 to PS3 to PS4, I might look back at phones from 2013-2015 and say I can go back to using that! For now, most smartphones age like spoiled milk to me with laggy software with only a few gems you may find in-between and can age like fine wine...

Like from my generation who still praise Saved By The Bell. Yeah, I used to love watching that show when I was 10. I liked that Jimmy Fallon reunion where the S6/S6 edge has as many views at 28M. But would I watch it now? Hell no. Same with Full House. The superlatives mostly come from nostalgia.
 
Of the phones I'm currently using:

1) Nexus 6

2) Nexus 5

3) iPhone 6 Plus

4) iPhone 6


If Safari/Chrome/Opera/Dolphin and various Apps didn't crash daily, I'd rate my iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 8.2 higher. I really do like my iP6+ a lot, it's just a shame Apple isn't doing their best work to give us a stable reliable OS.

You'll notice I'm not complaining about a lack of features, it's just the frustration of a crash prone OS. I've had every single iPhone since the original, none have been this buggy. And believe it or not, I'm just reporting my experience.

It's not a complaint because I have these surprisingly excellent, fast, stable and ultra reliable Androids to enjoy while I wait for Apple to get serious and deliver the quality experience I paid just over $850 & $1,000 for.

I've been a loyal Apple customer / shareholder since 1991. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect Apple to ship a product as buggy as my iPhone 6 series phones.

Furthermore I give a lot of credit to Google... from Android ver. 4.2 forward they've been really terrific. Very capable and fun to use.
 
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