What is your main phone? And, what's the best you've owned?

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The land line is pretty good but of course I can't use it very far from the house. I haven't got a working mobile phone right now.

Best mobile phone was a Samsung pay-as-you-go UK dumbphone. It lasted over a decade. All I had to do was go to an ATM and top it up with credit when it was low. It even worked in some parts of the USA. It had a feature for blocking any individual phone numbers I wanted to block. Since it stopped working I've not been able to find anything half as good. The last one (dumbphone) had a worse user interface, unstoppable texts from the provider advertising stupid deals, the ATMs had stopped doing the top-up thing, topping it up online wasn't easy, and the service provider had a rule that if I didn't use the phone at least once every 6 months for something that cost money, they'd permanently stop supporting that number. So after 8 months in the USA where it didn't work at all, it became completely useless. Most of my mobile phone problems come from bad service providers. I just don't need to use a mobile phone often enough to justify paying a monthly fee, but the pay-as-you-go contracts all seem to be rubbish.

Sometimes I feel tempted to get a smartphone, but apart from the expense there's the issue of being tracked. I don't know how to fix that.

I have had a Galaxy S20 for about 3 1/2 years, and just started using the fingerprint unlock feature which is amazing. Probably the best phone I've owned, but a very pedestrian choice, I suppose.

Redmi Note 10 5G，
I got it after I passed the college entrance examination, and it was advertised for its durability and high cost performance. It is indeed true, it is still useful after three years, as long as I don't rely on it to play games.

I personally like smaller phones. Too bad they don't make many of them anymore.
My favourite phone so far has been iPhone 6s. I bought one for cheap in October 2022 and used it for about 6 months. No sideloading was a huge downside. I mainly like it for its size - which is a perfect size for a phone IMO. For that old of a phone the photos were decent. And another huge plus - it has a headphone jack.
Now I use Sony Xperia 10 V. I like its design and size, it has no camera cutout, also has a headphone jack (wich is a must for me even though I use ANC Bluetooth headphones most of the time), takes nice photos, and the lilac clolor is nice. Seriously, why don't more phones come in purple/lilac. I even recommended this phone to a friend who has similar requirements for a phone. Sony makes pretty good phones, but they have almost no marketing compared to juggernauts of the phone market like Samsung or Apple.

My last phone was a Blackview BV9800 I selected for its thermal camera.
It may have been clunky, but the battery lasted 5 days in a low service area.
Despite having a gorillaglass protector, the screen smashed after falling off the car seat
It now lives in the car for use in a bushfire for seeing through smoke.

I followed that with a Blackview BL8800, whose battery lasts a week. It has an IR blaster so I can use it as a remote.
These phones are really for ringing out. The only incoming calls are solar panel spam and scams.

An OPPO A31.

Only I can claim mine and still currently owned for the last 4 or so years now.

Brought it on my 25th birthday.
I pray that it will lasts for another 5 or 6 years.

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