Other - no smart phone.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.
You 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.
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.
Motorola and LG are huge omissions for this crowd, which is probably why "other" is the second-most-voted at time of writing. OnePlus and Xiaomi might also have larger-than-typical (in the West, at least) showings here, too.
I develop for Android and have nexus devices, but my carry device is a Lumia 521 I got for $69 USD. Small & light enough to run with, smart enough to have a decent web browser / email experience - but simple and "just works". T-Mobile wifi calling is great too.<p>I'm bummed the successor (Lumia 530) is fatter though. I'll keep my 521 until it no longer works.<p>At $69, this is a pretty amazing device with Here Maps & Here Drive offline mapping and navigation.
Huawei, HTC, Blackberry<p>Plus I have a working backup dumbphone which is Samsung but I'm not using it lately. The Blackberry is the only one I use as a phone, the others are internet devices. If the BB croaks I will go back to the dumbphone to use as a phone. They last me 1 week+ between charges (aftermarket brick battery for the BB).
It's kind of surprising that while iPhone got the most points, only two of 44 comments are mentioning it. It almost contradicts the common conception that people have that iPhone owners have a need to express themselves and talk about their phones. But maybe HN is just different.
Droid 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".