Outside of phone-app developers, does it matter much anymore? The top two major platforms seemed to have hit feature parity and plateau, and they cover the vast majority of the smartphone market. I haven't been excited, or even very interested, in a new smartphone feature in a few years.
Poll: What smartphone do you use?
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#12Droid Razr, but I will be switching to a no-contract MVNO shortly to save about $1500 / year over Verizon, once they get the new Moto X. Both would count as "other".
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#13OnePlus One
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#14I'm switching to an iPhone in a couple of weeks I don't know what to choose
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#15Rare species here. Big Windows Phone fan :)
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#16You left out the options for "I use a dumbphone" and "I don't carry a phone at all". This being HN, I suspect we've got a significant proportion in those categories.
Not if that data isn't relevant to his research I guess
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#17LG G2
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#18Only use iPhone beacuse iMessage
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#19Title correction: What NSA spy device do you use?
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#20Other - no smart phone.
Often no phone at all. I own a flip phone with a usable tactile keyboard (for texting), but I try to leave it at home as often as possible and I discourage people from contacting me too much on it.
There are a lot of good arguments in favor of all the wonderful things smartphones do for people. I'm not going to argue against any of them.
But I'm also old enough to remember how people used to socialize before smart phones (or even cell phones), and I miss that. I don't mind getting lost sometimes, and I already have too many distractions in my life. I'm not terribly social to begin with, and I don't get to get away often enough, so when I do, I definitely don't want to stay connected to the internet and family and all that. I've gone hiking with people that stopped in the middle of the hike to tweet something and I don't like it.
I keep wishing someone would come along and develop a modular phone system -- something like phonebloks, but with basic one-button functionality to answer a call and bluetooth for pairing with other devices, so that it can be used with a laptop or a 5" tablet or whatever. Probably not much of a market for that though.