Weekend Open Forum: What phone are you currently using?

Keep switching my devices, though my go-to phone is the iPhone 6S Plus. Also have a Mate 9. Daily user/office use is the iPhone SE. Why? Compact size, and excellent battery life! Plus a decent shooter when you want to take some pictures.
 
Nexus 5x which I have been fairly happy with. Heck of an upgrade from my Droid Razr Max. I have eyeballed the Pixel XL, just not sure if I want to shell out that much cash....
 
Although I have only cracked 1 screen (3 years ago) in the entire 8 years of owning a smart phone, when I got the S7 edge I found myself always "worried" since it was such an expensive device. So, got rid of it and switched to a Moto G Play. Going from $1000 (cad) device to a $140 (cad) is SOOOOOO relieving. Never have to worry about the moto G play since its so cheap and offers 95% of what the s7 edge did (in my opinion)
 
Still on my old LG Optimus G (G1). Using it until it kicks the dirt or until I can find something with a great camera and no identity scanners.
 
Samsung Galaxy S6...still very happy with it. Just got my partner a Moto G4 Plus which is excellent for the money - I'd be happy to have one myself if I was in the market for another phone.
 
Lg g3, and looking forward greatly to the day where I replace it with a better phone with inferior specs.

Thing bloody throttles after 5 minutes of anything outside of messaging and notifications work intermittently.
 
I'm still with Note 4(still works great, never had problems) , I was looking forward to upgrade to Note 7 but after the battery issues I decided to stick with Note 4 and wait for Note 8(if they make one) or the upcoming Pixel.
 
iPhone 6+ 64GB.... will wait to see what the iPhone 7S/8/X or whatever they call their new one this Fall is like... I usually upgrade every 2 years, but didn't see the 7+ as that much of an upgrade...
 
yeeeeman said:
To add to my previous comment...consumers don't need devices once a year. This cadence of releasing new tech is just a way to ensure high profits for the wealthy guys that own respective companies. I do think that we, as consumers, have a lot to lose because of this frenetic pace at which devices are released. They are clearly rushed, made with a lot of compromises, employees that develop them are payed with little money for what actually is more work (compared to releasing a new product once every 2-3 years). So we, as consumers, should act wisely and not jump to buying the latest offering each and every year. Not only you get a small increase for your hard earned money, but wealthy people get more wealthy and we all know it is a vicious circle.
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Getting a new phone every year is an option. Consumers do it - wait for it - because they WANT to.
 
Samsung Galaxy S7 for one reason only - the keyboard case. If not for that I would probably have went with a PRIV, but I wasn't hearing good things at the time it first came out. Now I kind of wish I'd chanced the Blackberry, because the SG7's software is GARBAGE - even the Android 7 update was only a marginal improvement. I'm so fed up I might have to try some rooting.
 
Burty117 said:
Were you one of the rare people holding it correctly?
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And one of the rare people who's managed to drop it without shattering it into a million pieces.

What people don't know about the 4, because Apple never advertised it, is that you have to get a "good" one. If you get a "normal" iPhone 4, it just isn't as premium a product.

How do you tell which version you have?

1. Hold it normally.
2. Drop it onto some rocks.

If it works without shattering during steps (1) and (2), you've got a good one. If the device fails or cracks at any point, you shouldn't question innovation.
 
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yeeeeman said:
To add to my previous comment...consumers don't need devices once a year. This cadence of releasing new tech is just a way to ensure high profits for the wealthy guys that own respective companies. I do think that we, as consumers, have a lot to lose because of this frenetic pace at which devices are released. They are clearly rushed, made with a lot of compromises, employees that develop them are payed with little money for what actually is more work (compared to releasing a new product once every 2-3 years). So we, as consumers, should act wisely and not jump to buying the latest offering each and every year. Not only you get a small increase for your hard earned money, but wealthy people get more wealthy and we all know it is a vicious circle.
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1. If a wealthy person gets more wealthy, why the hell should any of us care? Last I checked, the growth or decline in net worth of wealthy people does not pay or decrease anyone's bills.

2. What about the millions of people who don't upgrade every cycle? Are they supposed to wait four years instead of three, five years instead of four, to facilitate "better value" for people who are compelled to have the latest and greatest?

3. Consumers operate across a large continuum of value. Why should companies (or regulators) dictate what slices of that continuum shall be served and which slices shall wait for what's "better for them?" Alternatively, why should one slice of the continuum get to dictate the values another slice is empowered to exercise?
 
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TomSEA said:
Just a plain old LG pay-as-you-go Tracphone. Even though I'm a tech guy, I find smart phones totally obnoxious. All I want is to make an occasional call and maybe a text here and there. And that Tracphone/program suits that need perfectly. PLUS...only costs me $9 a month. Ha!
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I've got a Virgin Mobile prepaid slider phone myself (I've had it more than a decade!)... got ya beat on price though. $20 every three months, for a total of $6.67 a month! The plan is no longer available, but I'm grandfathered in. I've accumulated so many minutes that I don't know what I would do with them.
 
Nexus 6P, wouldn't mind a Pixel 2 though when they are announced, my 6P is beginning to show battery issues, it will shut down as soon as battery saving mode is enabled... Apparently people are blaming the latest update on this though.
 
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