So for me the smartphone story started with the Neo FreeRunner I got from school to work on my bachelors thesis & this is where modRana first ran on a mobile devices, forked from a FreeRunner navigation app called "Rana". Later on I got a N900, which I still have in working order and occasionally use for modRana testing.

After the N900 I used N950 for a while & ported modRana to MeeGo Harmattan, followed by Nokia N9 I got from the Maemo Coding Competition.

The Sailfish OS ear started for me by pre-ordering the Jolla 1, which I used for quite a while, followed by Jolla C. I also pre-ordered the Jolla Tablet, but was not quick enough to be in the super early batch that actually shipped. But a friend of mine was quick enough and I bought the Jolla Tablet from him later on and used it for a while. At the moment it has a broken USB connector (again, after a previous repair), bringing back memories about the fragile N900 USB connectors that thankfully did not impact my N900, at least so far.

I started the Sailfish X ear with an Xperia X & then with a second one when the first one turned out to be incompatible with high speed pavement impact. Since then I bought a second hand Xperia X with Sailfish OS also to a non power users family member to see how usable is Sailfish OS for regular users. Looking good as far as I can tell.

I still use Xperia X with Sailfish OS as my primary mobile device even though I've already got the [s]Longcat[/s] Xperia 10+, I have not yet flashed it with Sailfish OS partially due to lack of time & due to waiting a bit till the hardware support stabilizes a bit.

As a secondary device I use the Galaxy Tab S6 with Android, mainly for drawing using the built-in S Pen functionality. I've also got the official keyboard cover for it, which has been working quite nicely. It would still rather get something comparable with Sailfish OS or Fedora, even for the standard Linux drawing apps (Krita, Mypaint) but as far as I can tell, nothing like this is available at the moment. At least the Tab S6 has a bootloader that can be unlocked, so I guess there is chance of a decent OS might be ported in the future.

As for my future plans, I definitely plan to get the Pine Phone - I have good experience with their Pine 64 SBCs and the price (~150$) is IMHO really good for such a nice device. I'm also aware of the Pro1, but find it just bit too expensive & bit bulky given that I mostly lug a 10 inch tablet with a rather nice keyboard with me.

Still, it's really nice to see all the new & reasonably open mobile devices! It's a shame a smooth transition from the FreeRunner/N900 to these devices was not possible & many people had to switch to less open yet more usable modern devices, at least in the interim. Still, giving all the buzz around all these devices & all the community mobile OS porting initiatives gives me hope nothing was really lost, just quite a bit of people patiently waiting for the right time. Which is apparently now.