Favorite devices ever used?

[gray2018]

I was just curious if anyone has a list of favorite devices they have ever used?

I'd say my list would be something like this....

5. Note 9
4. Galaxy S5
3. LG V30
2. S21 Ultra
1. Note 10+

I am personally only counting devices I've actually owned and kept long term. There are several devices, which I had for a short period of time, say a month or so, that I didn't keep and wouldn't consider them among this list, a few of them being the LG V60 and the S20 Ultra.

 

[SeeBeeEss]

1. BlackBerry Passport
2. Google Pixel 8 Pro
3. OnePlus 6

Unfortunately, my list of "least favourite" devices would be longer. Yeah, I sure know how to pick 'em.

 

[monsieurms]

I was just curious if anyone has a list of favorite devices they have ever used?
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I go back a long way and was an early adopter. If you remember that Seinfeld episode where he gives his father a smart device and his father just uses it to calculate tips, you really had to work to expand the possibilities in those days. I had smartphone type things before they were really smartphones.

But I have to give a special pat on the back to Palm treo. Over various versions, possibilities opened up, including things like reading ebooks on phones. To this day, it is my favorite use of a smartphone.

Treos were primitive and too small compared to later faves like the mature Samsung Note series, but they laid the groundwork.

 

[gray2018]

1. BlackBerry Passport
2. Google Pixel 8 Pro
3. OnePlus 6

Unfortunately, my list of "least favourite" devices would be longer. Yeah, I sure know how to pick 'em.

Oh man... Crackberry! I was a user back when they were all the rage. I remember having a Blackberry Curve 8330, 8520, Blackberry Bold and also a Blackberry Style, the flippable style phone.

I've used many android phones as well. I've used Samsung, LG, Oneplus, HTC, and I may have had Motorola android device at some point. Not entirely sure.
That said, I've always leaned more towards Samsung and LG. Honestly, most of the time after I had the Galaxy S5, I preferred LG. I straight up skipped from the S5 up until the Note 9. LG had made some fantastic devices back in the day, but also some real duds, like the LG G6. Straight up one of the worst devices I've had.

 

[SeeBeeEss]

I go back a long way and was an early adopter. If you remember that Seinfeld episode where he gives his father a smart device and his father just uses it to calculate tips, you really had to work to expand the possibilities in those days. I had smartphone type things before they were really smartphones.

But I have to give a special pat on the back to Palm treo. Over various versions, possibilities opened up, including things like reading ebooks on phones. To this day, it is my favorite use of a smartphone.

Treos were primitive and too small compared to later faves like the mature Samsung Note series, but they laid the groundwork.

I cut my teeth on a Palm Treo. And, just like the ex, it was so long ago that I don't really remember how I felt about it, anymore.

 

[B. Diddy]

1. Pixel 7 Pro
2. Pixel Tablet
3. Nexus 7 2013
4. Nexus 5
5. Creative Zen Vision: M

 

[SeeBeeEss]

1. Pixel 7 Pro
2. Pixel Tablet
3. Nexus 7 2013
4. Nexus 5
5. Creative Zen Vision: M

I forgot all about my Creative Zen Vision M. Man, I loved that player - and my Microsoft Zune, as well. Although I don't use it anymore, the Zen works just as well today as it did on the day I brought it home 20 years ago. Wish my phones lasted that long.

 

[B. Diddy]

I forgot all about my Creative Zen Vision M. Man, I loved that player - and my Microsoft Zune, as well. Although I don't use it anymore, the Zen works just as well today as it did on the day I brought it home 20 years ago. Wish my phones lasted that long.

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I had the Cambridge Soundworks speaker dock as well! I think I found it on eBay. Great sound! Unfortunately, the last time I tried powering on the Zen, nothing happened even after letting it charge for a while, so I think the battery finally died.

 

[monsieurms]

I cut my teeth on a Palm Treo. And, just like the ex, it was so long ago that I don't really remember how I felt about it, anymore.

I agree with that observation for the most part, but I do remember how small the screen was. That was the hardest part.

 

[VidJunky]

1. LG Voyager
2. HTC Incredible
3. Samsung S10+

I know some of you will look at my list as a bunch of relics but each signifies a point in time when I was really excited about a device. #1 was my first touch screen device. It also had the physical keyboard and a pull out antenna that picked up TV shows. This was when I became a true phone person. #2 was the first phone I got excited enough about to pre-order and pay extra for. The red accents were epic. #3 was the first phone I got truly excited about after the death of HTC. Sure I've liked some devices here and there but true excitement...

 

[mustang7757]

Samsung s4
Samsung S/Note 24u
Samsung Note 20
Samsung Note 3~4
Samsung Note 9
Pixel 2xl
Pixel 9 pro XL
Pixel 4 XL
Pixel 5
Pixel Fold Gen1
Fold 3~6 enjoy them all Samsung
HTC M8
Nexus 6P
iPhone 4~6

 

[Laura Knotek]

1. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
2. LG V20
3. Moto X OG
4. Nexus 7 2013
5. Samsung Galaxy S10+

 

[gray2018]

1. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra
2. LG V20
3. Moto X OG
4. Nexus 7 2013
5. Samsung Galaxy S10+

The S10 series and Note 10+ was peak Samsung IMO. I still have an S10e that I use on the side.

 

[VidJunky]

It's simultaneously funny and interesting to me how many people have held on to and claim to turn on some of these old devices. A while back I turned on an old device and managed to get it connected to wifi and couldn't get over how slow it was. Could it have been that slow when I used it all of the time? It has that memory of something I once enjoyed but an unfamiliar feel that doesn't match the memory.

 

[SeeBeeEss]

It's simultaneously funny and interesting to me how many people have held on to and claim to turn on some of these old devices. A while back I turned on an old device and managed to get it connected to wifi and couldn't get over how slow it was. Could it have been that slow when I used it all of the time? It has that memory of something I once enjoyed but an unfamiliar feel that doesn't match the memory.

While I get and mostly agree with your observation, that isn't the way it always works. Case in point, my fairly new (6 year old) Sony Walkman MW-A45 takes far longer to turn on and actually start playing music than my 20 year old Creative Zen Vision M. I guess Sony thinks that if you have to wait forever in anticipation to hear your music, you'll love it that much more.

 

[Bkdodger1]

Wow I'm loving some of these phones I have so many but I'm going to just name a few that are a little special to me

Droid x because it was the first phone that got me really interested into modding

Note 2 it was my first note of many to come and I also had it rooted and a lot of different mods

Samsung Nexus some really fun times on the forums with rooting also and so many mods that phone had like the worst battery but I didn't care lol

HTC M8 another great phone just love the build quality at all around awesome phone

Blackberry a few of them including the Curve, I was all into that BBM and all that ecosystem

Palm Treo 650 I love that little screen phone with the little stylus until I dropped it on the sidewalk manhole and crack the screen

Motorola StarTak what can I say lol that phone is a classic

Samsung S10 Plus love loved the way it curved into the screen I had a nice vibrant blue I should have kept that phone

Current phone to Pixel 9 Pro XL which I think it's the best phone Google has ever made and my iPhone clone lol

Z Fold had a few of them and this one right now is my favorite the z-fold 6

 

[monsieurms]

..and managed to get it connected to wifi and couldn't get over how slow it was. Could it have been that slow when I used it all of the time? It has that memory of something I once enjoyed but an unfamiliar feel that doesn't match the memory.

Hah. At least connected to Wi-Fi. Do you remember dial-up modems?

 

[Walter Wagenleithner]

Nokia Lumia 730

That was a really beautiful smartphone in orange, with dual sim capabilities and it made quite good photos for a mid ranger

Nokia Lumia 950XL

A quite big phone but with incredible photo quality

Samsung Galaxy S7

I imported the dual sim variant from Asia, very beautiful and relatively compact phone with very good camera

Samsung Galaxy Note 10

I loved the smaller Note variant with not much of a difference to its bigger brother

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

I love how Samsung refined the Ultra Line, I just wish there was a smaller variant with the same storage and cameras

 

[Laura Knotek]

Wow I'm loving some of these phones I have so many but I'm going to just name a few that are a little special to me

Droid x because it was the first phone that got me really interested into modding

Note 2 it was my first note of many to come and I also had it rooted and a lot of different mods

Samsung Nexus some really fun times on the forums with rooting also and so many mods that phone had like the worst battery but I didn't care lol

HTC M8 another great phone just love the build quality at all around awesome phone

Blackberry a few of them including the Curve, I was all into that BBM and all that ecosystem

Palm Treo 650 I love that little screen phone with the little stylus until I dropped it on the sidewalk manhole and crack the screen

Motorola StarTak what can I say lol that phone is a classic

Samsung S10 Plus love loved the way it curved into the screen I had a nice vibrant blue I should have kept that phone

Current phone to Pixel 9 Pro XL which I think it's the best phone Google has ever made and my iPhone clone lol

Z Fold had a few of them and this one right now is my favorite the z-fold 6

I also had the blue S10+.

 

[Laura Knotek]

It's simultaneously funny and interesting to me how many people have held on to and claim to turn on some of these old devices. A while back I turned on an old device and managed to get it connected to wifi and couldn't get over how slow it was. Could it have been that slow when I used it all of the time? It has that memory of something I once enjoyed but an unfamiliar feel that doesn't match the memory.

The thing that made me leave BlackBerry was when I tried to search for something using the BlackBerry browser on my 9700. It was so slow I had to pull the battery. Then it took so long to reboot that I felt like throwing it across the room.