This page is meant to showcase devices I currently own, as well as those I have owned in the past. I will also try my best to provide reasons why I pick a particular device as my current daily driver. Though, expect long rants, as I had regrets for most of the devices I chose.
I carry these devices almost everywhere with me, though I am making a switch to only one device shortly.
Galaxy S23+ (rant warning)
I got this device after selling the iPhone, on the premise that I wanted to return to Android. I miss being able to just install software from any source I would prefer, which also includes Youtube Revanced, Syncthing to name a few. To be fair, it was rather cheap for a great deal (349 Euro for a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, 8/256GB and decent camera performance overall).
However, as months go by, Samsung has continued to worsen their software experience by introducing unnecessary AI features and UI elements I don’t take a liking to. The worst however, is them taking away the ability to unlock the Bootloader altogether (the option for OEM unlocking literally disappeared after the update to One UI 8).
Another aspect of this device, one I didn’t find extremely problematic until very recently, is the lack of both an SD card slot and a 3.5mm headphone jack. I still hold dear to analog audio transmission, and Bluetooth has never really served me more than a necessity for their noice cancellation or voice calling at work. I find it completely unacceptable that Samsung has been stripping even their entry-level devices (say, the Galaxy A16 or A17 series) of the headphone jack, in favor of their Bluetooth products. Who knows when they would eventually lose out on the expandable storage as well, which is made even problematic given the skyrocketing prices on RAM and NAND storage currently.
Galaxy S10e
These are devices that I currently still own, but have no or little use of them as a daily driver.
These are devices that I owned in the past. They were either broken, sold or given to other family members for continued use.
Before 2018 I had only brick phones (also known as feature phones):
After 2018 I got my very first smartphone, and I changed them rather too frequently.