First phone was LG.
Second was Motorola.
Third and fourth phones Nokia.
I’ve liked them all for different reasons, but I’m not comparing apples to apples here—the three brands span three completely different types of phone. Perhaps obviously, my fourth phone is the nicest. And its camera eliminates any need for a separate digital camera. My parents began with Nokia, and even though they’ve gone to other phone brands they swear by Nokia for the manufacturing quality. I don’t have much to compare it to, but my two Nokias experienced the worst treatment of my phones (the other two spent much more of their time benignly in a pocket) and they’ve held up remarkably.
Went from first phone to second, and from second phone to third, because of improved reliability (batteries were failing, signal wasn’t always the best.) Went from third to fourth partly because of battery, mostly because the software was becoming obsolete and my digital camera had died by then anyway, so two birds. (Also by then, the phone’s camera was better than the digital camera.)
I like my Nokia 1020 best; it’s sleek, efficient and reliable… I want to hold onto it until it’s literally falling apart.