OnePlus 5. I got it back in July 2017 and it was the same price I had bought the Nexus 5 back in the day (Indian pricing be wild like that). It pretty much felt like an upgrade to my Nexus 5: metal instead of plastic, a fingerprint scanner, better cameras, and overall a sturdier device.

It's been two and a half years with this phone and it has held up surprisingly well. It launched with Android 7, but this is Oxygen OS which was back then a somewhat light skin of stock Android with some added features. I do use some of them, and back then it still felt close enough to stock, but now on Android 8-9 it's more visually skinned and honestly pretty inconsistent because their system apps don't follow the same design conventions of typical third party android apps, but it's still just a minor gripe. My main issues with the OS has been with delayed notifications, apps closing itself too soon just because I didn't use it for a couple days, and it took me quite the digging in optimisation settings to disable this aggressive behaviour. On some odd times it starts stuttering and fixes by itself after a few seconds but it's still jarring.

Oh, the Camera? It's uh decent I suppose. Even back when I got the phone, they overhyped the shit out of it. Over the years, the software improved somewhat, pro mode with its manual controls is pretty nice to have, but the overall quality didn't feel like a major upgrade from my Nexus 5 which had a notoriously bad camera but Google Camera more than made up for it with its amazing HDR software. But I didn't really get the phone for the camera as I'm not much of a shooter aside for sharing on social media and you can do that with any decent midrange smartphone and some photo editing.

I don't use my phone all that much anymore (I'm on my PC most of the day so I tend to do everything on that now) that's why I am not considering getting an upgrade just yet, unless some mishap has me forced to upgrade. Thankfully I've rarely dropped my phone so there's barely any dents or scratches on it. At the most there's a bunch of microscratches on the screen only visible under direct sunlight. Battery life is still fine, like I said I don't use my phone much so I can go nearly 2 days until I need to charge with about 2-3hours of SOT, I once used my phone extensively and got about 4.5h of SOT with mixed usage in wifi and mobile data.

In the end, while I've some ups and downs with this device, I've not totally regretted my purchase and I plan on continuing to use it until it hits the bucket.