When I worked at one of the US’s major wireless carriers as a manager, I snagged an HTC phone when it was one of the first Android phones. It was small but very cool. I’d been using an iPhone 3G at the time and as soon as I played around with the Android, I knew I had to have it, and never looked back! That was 2009 I think.

Like me! My very first cellphone was a Sony Ericcson. It was a GSM bar phone, in 2004. Got it free with the AT&T employee plan. It saved me once. I was in a car wreck on the freeway and my gf was using AOL (ha) on the only phone line at my house so I used my tiny Sony Ericsson to contact a co worker friend on msn messenger (this is seriously making me sound old) and told her to IM my gf to get off the computer/phone so I could call about my car accident and get help. It wasn’t a smartphone, either, but it did the trick there.

Then I got one of those Sony Walkman phones a year later, it was excellent for music.

I, too, am using the Motorola One 5G, and really aside from updates, I have no complaints, except the phone trips out once in a while or has weird screen glitches on occasion. Great phone though. Hoping to upgrade to one of the Edge series soon.

I have a Motorola, and I like it a lot.

I started Lemmy with Jerboa, switched to Sync, tried Eternity (Infinity), un-installed immediately, and am now very happy using Voyager.

So for me personally, Boost is a little late.

I don’t even understand what Android Auto is.

The family car is a 99 Toyota rav 4. We stick a cassette in the player with a cord attached, and plug that in to the phone for music lol

I worked at AT&T when iphones first were a thing. Everything was proprietary (still is) with them, and employees weren’t allowed to own phones for the first few years on employee accounts for some unknown reason. When I became a case manager for the executive response team, I finally got to have an iPhone. And… It was boring. I couldn’t customize it (granted this was the iPhone 3G in 2008) and it just really didn’t excite me. Then I got an Android phone on a whim, and fell in love. All the options!! The things you can do or choose not to do! Amazing! And still to this day whenever I play with an iPhone… It bores me to death.

I’m in the US and my thought is that it’s easier to use sms because not everyone uses Signal, not everyone uses Telegram, and those types. If they did… One person would prefer Snapchat, the other would prefer Signal… Too many choices. With SMS, it’s just your phone number, and everyone has a phone number.

Otherwise you gotta get usernames for different people for different apps… It’s too complicated.

I agree. Long ago, mobile Hotspot just came with my plans. Now it’s extra, which is stupid. Just another way for them to make $$

That’s one of the reasons why I love Midjourney lol… Sometimes it’s nothing near what you wanted but it turns out great anyway!

I have Sync and Jerboa, and I must say, Sync is polished and smooth and makes it more simple to use. I haven’t tried the Infinity for Lemmy but I might test that one out, too.

I liked Spark, and right now I use E-mail by Edison. Clunky name, but good solid email app. Nice UI, multiple accounts.

Just realized I’d made an unintentional pun there 😁

My gf wanted one because the flips fold down small, but if you ever go on eBay, you’ll see the screens are pretty shitty still. Maybe we’ll get her one in a few years from now when they’ve had time to really, truly iron out all the kinks.

Oh for Pete’s sakes. Art is art.

Wow it’s your first time using Midjourney? That’s pretty good!

Customization. That’s my #1 reason I love Android.