[General Topics] MiPaDo:
I'm 37, and have made my living in Mobile for the last 8/9years. I was part of a team that grew a Verizon Franchise from 2 to 37 stores in 3 states over the course of 7 years. At that time I would swap phones every time a flagship would release, but besides my first Droid(a Droid X) I didn't root(Howard Forums was all I knew then) and before my droid I had a few Treo's but hated them and would always go back to an LG 8100 or 8300(right before the droid I had the LG Dare, does anyone remember Verizon touting it as an iPhone Killer?, lol.) And while it killed many things, ie my patience, my respect for Verizon, and ultimately a little bit of my soul... An iPhone killer it was not.

Rooted the droid X, only to over clock(before my phone addiction, I would build a gaming rig every January and constantly upgrade it during the year)

Droid X, then droid 2 global(had to have the first 1.2Ghz phone), incredible 2, thunderbolt, Continuum(lasted 5 days M-F) X2, Bionic, xperia play, droid pro, droid charge,

At this point the iPhone came out, and I was in Love withe that until Last Summer(save for a brief but intense affair with the Galaxy Nexus)

Rezound... Then we sold the company and I signed a noncompete, and took a year off... That's when it started. I kept buying devices I had 5 lines and it was just my wife and I. And I used every single upgrade my parents/sister/brother had, that's why I swapped out. They kept flip phones for years, and when they were broke or wanted something new, they were cheap compared to data phones.

After 8 months I knew I wanted to open some stores, I love sales, I love the business, and its all I know, but I had time left till "I could" so I got a easy job as a "BigBox" manager in the town i bought a place in during my 8 month retirement. and this is where my phone addiction took root.

I have Transferred over the contractual liability for 2 lines to 2 family members so they could have unlimited data. So my wife had a phone and I had two.

Well fast forward 7 months, and I own every flagship device released on att and Verizon(besides the razrs)I thought moto made crap up until last week(but we know who had the major hand in that)

And of course as a BigBox electronics manager I took the discounted att manager plan, and now have fun buying world wide phones. Like my Padfone's, the xperia Z Ultra(should arrive Friday) 808 pureview, and now the 1020. And I root anything and everything. any free time is spent flashing and modding, on a perpetual search for the perfect ROM.

I am by no means anymore tech savvy than the normal poster on XDA, and far less than any Dev, but I live in a town thats the final pitstop to heaven for the elderly.

So this is the how and why, I think owning 13 unique types of phones(more overall, size, GE) in the last year is excessive.

Besides devs building Roms for multiple devices, anyone else like this. Right now there is no product that excites me and that sucks, I hope the ZU is that type of product with the s800, and 6.44 FHD display. And if not I hope something game changing gets announced soon and shocks us, because April is a Long way away, so while the edge is awesome by "right now" standards. Who knows then.

As I re-read this I can't help but see a pattern of insanity, all the phones(save for a few) are 95% more similar than different, and I'm trying to think when any of them felt different.

I'll tell u what though. I must like the HTC one, as I use that more than the nexus 4, S4, opti G pro, Nok1020 or find 5.