Every Phone I’ve Owned Since 2010, Ranked

If you're a techie similar me, you've astir apt had a batch of phones implicit the years. Each 1 is simply a small snapshot of a circumstantial clip successful your life. But immoderate phones basal supra the rest, and I've gone done my idiosyncratic archives to find which 1 is astatine the top.

Now, arsenic a long-time telephone reviewer, my explanation of a telephone I "owned" is simply a spot different. Not each telephone connected this database was purchased with my ain money. However, I lone considered phones that I utilized for a sizeable magnitude of time, galore of which I commited to capable to bargain accessories for.

13 Motorola DROID 2

The Motorola DROID 2 had 2 things moving against it. One, it came aft my precise archetypal smartphone, which I perfectly loved. Two, I didn't person overmuch wealth to walk connected a caller phone. I didn't truly privation the DROID 2 that badly, but I recovered a bully woody connected Swappa, and it had a batch of assemblage enactment connected XDA. It was a good phone.

12 HTC 7 Trophy

When I started penning for a Windows Phone work successful 2012, I needed a Windows Phone instrumentality that worked connected Verizon. The HTC Trophy was fundamentally my lone option. It was small, slow, and the camera wasn't precise good. Nonetheless, it gave maine a affirmative archetypal foray into Windows Phone. Verizon conscionable didn't person overmuch to connection successful the mode of Windows Phone devices astatine this time...

11 HTC 8X

...so I switched to AT&T! Literally. I was fed up with Verizon not getting immoderate decent Windows Phone devices, and I had received the HTC 8X to review. I liked it truthful overmuch that I wanted to usage it arsenic my regular driver. After years of utilizing Google Voice arsenic my superior number, I made the leap to AT&T. All for the HTC 8X. If that doesn't accidental something, I don't cognize what does.

10 Nokia Lumia 925

After immoderate clip with the HTC 8X, it was clip for an upgrade. I had been eyeing Nokia Lumia devices since I started penning astir Windows Phone. I yet hopped connected committee and bought myself a Nokia Lumia 925. The HTC 8X whitethorn person looked cooler, but the Lumia 925 was decidedly a amended all-around phone. I adjacent went truthful acold arsenic to propulsion retired the wireless charging coil from the optional screen and hack it into the backmost of the phone.

9 LG V30

I had a brushed spot for LG phones for a while. However, of each the LG phones I tried implicit the years, the LG V30 was caput and shoulders supra the rest. I legitimately utilized it arsenic my regular operator for galore months. It didn't person each the gimmicks of LG's different phones, and that is precisely wherefore I liked it truthful much. The V30 was conscionable a ace coagulated smartphone.

8 Nexus 6

The Nexus 6 marked a precise breathtaking clip arsenic an Android user, astatine slightest for me. I perfectly loved Android 5.0 Lollipop and the caller "Material Design" UI. The Nexus 6 was huge, but I didn't care. I loved however it felt successful my hand, and I loved the software. I had the archetypal Moto 360 astatine this time, which I besides loved precise much. Definitely 1 of the champion phone/watch pairings I've had successful my life.

7 Pixel 3

The Pixel 3 XL had a hideous notch, truthful I opted for the smaller model. At the time, I was transitioning distant from reviewing each caller Android phone. I wanted a telephone that I could usage for a agelong time, and the Pixel 3 served that purpose. I deliberation this was the archetypal telephone I really utilized for a coagulated 2 years, since earlier I started reviewing phones.

6 Pixel 7

The Pixel 3 showed maine that I truly enjoyed having a tiny telephone that I could easy usage with 1 hand. So, I stuck with the smaller Pixel mode for a fewer generations. Stripping distant each the affectional attachments, the Pixel 7 is astir apt the Pixel I was astir impressed with. It felt similar the Pixel bid was moving past enthusiasts and becoming a much superior contender. I bought my ain soon aft sending the reappraisal portion back.

5 Pixel 9 Pro XL

The Pixel 9 Pro XL is my existent regular driver. I'll beryllium honest, I don't emotion however large it is, but I've gotten utilized to it. I really have a Pixel 9 arsenic well, but the zoom lens is thing I usage each the time. It's worthy the occasional awkwardness of one-handed usage to get amended shots of worldly that's acold away. Like the Pixel 7, I besides felt similar the Pixel 9 bid marked a definitive "growing up" infinitesimal for Google.

4 Nexus 5

Ah, the Nexus 5. What a phone. After my clip with Windows Phone, the Nexus 5 was my introduction constituent backmost into the satellite of Android. I utilized the Nexus 5 for a agelong clip and hacked the ever-loving crap retired of it. Custom ROMs, Xposed modules, you sanction it. This telephone was a workhorse. If I retrieve correctly, I lone stopped utilizing it due to the fact that the artillery started to dice precise quickly.