I use a nexus s 4g running android 2.7.1, but rooted and with cyanogenmod (CM7) installed. Been that way since early spring. Need to do a reload/reformat though, been crashing on me about once or twice a week lately.

Think my favorite thing about having it though is that sprint has it set up so its tied directly to my google voice account. I can view view and send texts I receive both on the phone and through the google voice web interface on my laptop. I’ve always hated trying to tap out sms’s on a phone and I like being able to quickly type out 1000 character verbose messages.

I use mediamonkey to manage the audiobooks podcasts and music on my phone and find it a much better system than itunes + ipod touch that I used a few years ago.

I have a Nokia Lumia 800 running Windows Phone 7.5. Awesome device… Buttery smooth, excellent keyboard, responsive touch screen (often a little too responsive). There’s a couple of things missing, mainly that my bank doesn’t have a mobile site for it yet. That said, the integration with Facebook and Twitter is awesome – having chat integrated with the messaging app is brilliant (someone goes offline from Facebook chat, it will switch to text if I have that person’s mobile number).

My primary phone is a Galaxy Nexus running stock Jelly Bean, but I also have a Transformer 10″ tablet, Nexus 7 7″ tablet, and a few other Android phones and devices. Before I had a smartphone, I used a work-provided iPhone for several months, but there were too many nagging points with it. It being tied to the bloatware known as iTunes was the first issue. Sharing content was just way too much work. Being able to only email one photo at a time was annoying. Notifications were infuriating.

A lot of those issues have been fixed or at least improved but I still find myself dealing with countless minor frustrations while using an iPhone. Opening apps, even Settings, is annoyingly delayed. Navigation is inconsistent. The dozen behaviors of the home button are constant reminders that having just one button doesn’t work, and why is it so clicky? The UI feels trapped in the 90s (especially the settings app).

Anyway, Android just works for me. Everything seems easy. Take a screenshot on JB and you can immediately share it from the notifications panel using any app you want (especially helpful for putting screenshots into Dropbox for blogging about later). The widgets are tough to live without. Notifications are unobtrusive but very functional. Apps are well connected (e.g., one app can have a button to take a new photo and I can pick to have that open my custom camera app). The home screen contains exactly what I put there instead of being a dump of the application directory. Being able to replace any app, even the launcher, is awesome. Even simple things like being able to treat the device like a USB thumbstick are extremely helpful.

I have a rooted Android running on the original Galaxy. I got an Android phone when Android first came into existence because I believed in the spirits of open source, customizations, etc. etc. etc. (Ironically, I own only Macs, live in a Macs-only household, and work in an all-Macs office.) I don’t know if this is still true, but getting everything to sync between my Mac and my Android phone was really mind boggingly difficult. It took a whole day!

There are definitely days that I regret it and wish I had just bought an iPhone. My friends sometimes taunt me with their “it just works” facial expressions when I complain for the 1,431th time about one aspect of the ROM not working (I’ve tried all major ROMs for this particular phone. Each one has ONE inexplicable kink that I couldn’t live with.)

On most days, though, I think about the landline my parents have, and the 3 million people who still use AOL for some reason, and I remind myself that both Android and iOS are now mature enough that options exist for almost everything one would want from a smartphone (with the help of rooting, jailbreaking, apps, etc.).

My phone is a Western Electric Model 2500. It sits on a table in the living room.

I used to use HTC Wildfire but it broke. I currently use some old nokia dumbphone (it doesn’t even have J2ME or WAP) I bought at a second hand shop for 8 euros. My absolute favourite mobile OS is Maemo. I have used it since 2005 in Nokia Internet Tablets (I still have Nokia 770) but I haven’t been able to get Nokia N900 at reasonable price.

I use a tracphone, because I’m a poor grad student and it costs $6/mo for the security of having a phone especially while on the road. I’d love to have a smart phone, and it would be android, but I’ll wait until I can afford it.

Zack wrote:

Jailbroken iPhone, but with each iteration of iOS, I find the Jailbreak more and more unnecessary! …With Android I feel like you have to root and install a custom ROM just to have solid performance (bloatware removal). I used to deal with that, but as I get older, I just have less time and less interest in those things.

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Jailbroken iPhone, but with each iteration of iOS, I find the Jailbreak more and more unnecessary! There are only a few tweaks that I install now, and if I couldn’t have them, I wouldn’t be heartbroken. I’ve played with a lot of Android phones, but the reason i Keep going back to iOS is the fact that it’s smooth as butter and just works. With Android I feel like you have to root and install a custom ROM just to have solid performance (bloatware removal). I used to deal with that, but as I get older, I just have less time and less interest in those things.

I have a phone, it is about eight years old, good for calling and SMS. Probably it runs on some Motorola Custom Symbian…