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Poll: What smartphone do you use?
Just a quick survey I'm doing
- qodeninja 12y agoNexus
- hammock 12y agoBlackberry Curve
- sreidnw 12y agoMoto X
- mankyd 12y agoIndeed. The Moto X is the most overlooked, but not under-rated, phone in recent history. The reviewers loved it. It is a truly awesome phone. They just failed to drum up sales to match. I recently used a Nexus 5 for a week. While a nice piece of hardware, I found myself consistently wanting the little extras that the Moto X comes with.
- ForHackernews 12y agoIt's a really great phone, and I like that it's pretty small, so it fits well in my pocket + hand.
- chetanahuja 12y agoCurrently carrying both a Nexus 4 and a MotoX (the small one from 2013). The No Touch features of Moto X are unique to this date I believe.
- WorldWideWayne 12y agoMoto G I voted Other. I love the cheap Android phones with a no-contract plan!
- ewzimm 12y agoIt makes other phones seem like such a bad deal. You can get it online for under $60 new, and the warranty is great. I use one with no plan, just WiFi, and usually carry a hotspot. Data-only plans are so much cheaper than voice for whatever reason. You can even find free ones with monthly limits that give you more than enough for voice/text. I've often been in the no phone camp, just checking messages on my computer when I'm around it, so if you're inclined toward that style, I definitely recommend a cheap Android phone with no plan.
- brortao 12y agoFairphone[1] [1]: http://fairphone.com/ http://fairphone.com/
- tbrownaw 12y agoNexus 5... the Google flagship line is "Other"?
- srathi 12y agoAnother vote for Nexus 5.
- chetanahuja 12y agoHeh.. clearly a poll created by an iPhone user.
- baddox 12y agoLG is a pretty big option to omit.
- 51Cards 12y agoNexus 5 as well
- EliRivers 12y agoYou left out the options for "I use a dumbphone" and "I don't carry a phone at all". This being HN, I suspect we've got a significant proportion in those categories.
- arenaninja 12y agoNexus 5.. crapware free.. except for Google's crapware (Drive, Hangouts)
- georgiecasey 12y agoDrive is fantastic, probably my most productive app
- arenaninja 12y agoI consider my phone entertainment; I mostly use it for reading HN and watching Netflix while in bed. It's great that it's free, it's not great that I can't remove it (I can 'disable' it, I think, but can't get rid of it)
- kachnuv_ocasek 12y agoOr you can just flash another ROM and gapps-minimal.
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- lallysingh 12y agoOutside of phone-app developers, does it matter much anymore? The top two major platforms seemed to have hit feature parity and plateau, and they cover the vast majority of the smartphone market. I haven't been excited, or even very interested, in a new smartphone feature in a few years.
- Spoom 12y agoDroid Razr, but I will be switching to a no-contract MVNO shortly to save about $1500 / year over Verizon, once they get the new Moto X. Both would count as "other".
- ilkkas 12y agoOnePlus One
- mhurron 12y agoI'm switching to an iPhone in a couple of weeks I don't know what to choose
- Avalaxy 12y agoRare species here. Big Windows Phone fan :)
- danijelb 12y agoLG G2
- brotoss 12y agoOnly use iPhone beacuse iMessage
- LeoPanthera 12y agoiMessage isn't the only reason I stick with iPhone, but it's a big one. It would be nice to see them open it up, though I doubt it will ever happen.
- godgod 12y agoTitle correction: What NSA spy device do you use?
- thaumaturgy 12y agoOther - no smart phone. Often no phone at all. I own a flip phone with a usable tactile keyboard (for texting), but I try to leave it at home as often as possible and I discourage people from contacting me too much on it. There are a lot of good arguments in favor of all the wonderful things smartphones do for people. I'm not going to argue against any of them. But I'm also old enough to remember how people used to socialize before smart phones (or even cell phones), and I miss that. I don't mind getting lost sometimes, and I already have too many distractions in my life. I'm not terribly social to begin with, and I don't get to get away often enough, so when I do, I definitely don't want to stay connected to the internet and family and all that. I've gone hiking with people that stopped in the middle of the hike to tweet something and I don't like it. I keep wishing someone would come along and develop a modular phone system -- something like phonebloks, but with basic one-button functionality to answer a call and bluetooth for pairing with other devices, so that it can be used with a laptop or a 5" tablet or whatever. Probably not much of a market for that though.
- MrRage 12y agoI was thinking about driving before GPS recently and I had to go somewhere I've never been to before. So I resolved to just look at Google maps before hand and then just try to driver there and back without my GPS unit or resorting to my phone. I really enjoyed it. I had to pay attention to where I was and what direction I was going. I feel like I actually learned the area better. So I get what you're saying.
- dmix 12y agoI own a smartphone and almost never receive phone calls, my friends know to text or email me. I also never reply to texts immediately, unless it is urgent. I had information overload for many years and in the last year it's been delightful to escape this stuff. I achieved it mostly by adjusting behaviour and communicating to friends my preferences, not by abandoning tech. I still carry my phone with me everywhere. It is useful when sitting on a bus, in a bathroom, doctors office, etc where you need to kill time and don't have a book. Or for utility reasons such as GPS, weather, public transit times, and booking a Hailo/Uber. I can use the latter without sacrificing my connectedness to the present world. Do you feel that if you carry it around, you'll feel compelled to use it? Or people will start contacting you more? Is it worth the sacrifice of utility?
- robbrown451 12y agoYou should really have LG as an option (which includes Nexus 4 and 5)
- rhubarbcustard 12y agoCubot P9
- muyuu 12y agoHuawei, HTC, Blackberry Plus I have a working backup dumbphone which is Samsung but I'm not using it lately. The Blackberry is the only one I use as a phone, the others are internet devices. If the BB croaks I will go back to the dumbphone to use as a phone. They last me 1 week+ between charges (aftermarket brick battery for the BB).
- aranjedeath 12y agoMoto G!
- asciimo 12y agoLG Nexus 5
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- aidenn0 12y agoKyocera
- wnevets 12y agoLG Nexus 5
- twoddle 12y agoThe OnePlus One.
- JshWright 12y agoGalaxy S4 -and- Other - Blackphone
- fubu 12y agoZTE Open C - Firefox OS
- thallian 12y agoother - A Flame with FirefoxOS
- briandh 12y agoMotorola and LG are huge omissions for this crowd, which is probably why "other" is the second-most-voted at time of writing. OnePlus and Xiaomi might also have larger-than-typical (in the West, at least) showings here, too.
- touristtam 12y agoXiaomi indeed
- mergy 12y agoHTC One M7 with cyanogenmod
- clumsysmurf 12y agoI develop for Android and have nexus devices, but my carry device is a Lumia 521 I got for $69 USD. Small & light enough to run with, smart enough to have a decent web browser / email experience - but simple and "just works". T-Mobile wifi calling is great too. I'm bummed the successor (Lumia 530) is fatter though. I'll keep my 521 until it no longer works. At $69, this is a pretty amazing device with Here Maps & Here Drive offline mapping and navigation.
- mkawia 12y agoHuawei is other ? rabble rabble rabble
- wvh 12y agoJolla (Sailfish).
- bryal 12y agoI love being able to compile and use just about any software I could possibly need.
- M4v3R 12y agoIt's kind of surprising that while iPhone got the most points, only two of 44 comments are mentioning it. It almost contradicts the common conception that people have that iPhone owners have a need to express themselves and talk about their phones. But maybe HN is just different.
- eccp 12y agoOld LG with Cyanogenmod :-)
- h078 12y agoLG G2
- hadoukenio 12y agoHow about re-doing the poll: 1. iOS 2. Android 3. Other 4. No phone
- cornycrunch 12y agoGalaxy S3 with SlimKat 7.8 (Android 4.4.4) and gapps-minimal. Fixed the DPI to the hardware default (320). More stable than CM11.
- pmosh 12y agoNexus 4
- cheald 12y agoNexus 4 running CM11.
- bnuhero 12y agoHTC G7
- Mandatum 12y agoNexus
- steanne 12y agoSony Xperia Z1C
- temmpo 12y agoRedmi 1S.
- markwong 12y agoNokia Lumia 900(Windows Phone 7.8) and I am very disappointed.
- easyfree37 12y agoI like it. Plan to get a 6+.
- Scottn1 12y agoBlackberry Z10.