One Phone To Rule Them All.

[shimomura]

I'm buying a new phone. I had the iphone 5. I jail-broke it, had tons of fun with the mobile terminal even was able to set up packages like nmap from it as well as run the python interpreter. The 64bit iphone 5s A7 processor definitely has me interested but before I go out and make a rash decision I ask you, what phone do you guys think is the best for programming and hacking?   

[Matriplex]

You can't do a ton of stuff with phones nowadays, but you can certainly do some things. As you said, there's an nmap for iOS. The programming part will be a little difficult simply because of the small screen. I find it irritating to debug and do anything programming related on mobile. You can program small scripts and stuff, but not much more.
I once wrote a random name generator in Lua on a car trip.

Other people will have much better information than I will though, mobile isn't exactly my strong point.

[iTpHo3NiX]

Lol iPhone I don't like helping sheep

[Kulverstukas]

If it's a tablet, then you can do some coding... but don't expect a full-blown development environment.
These days phones don't differ that much, between GalaxyS2 and GalaxyS5 from a regular user standpoint, they only differ with size and speed, that's why I still have an S2 and don't think to change, because there are no phones worth worth buying...
Anyway, one phone to rule them all? no. You played too much Watchdogs.

Basically coding, debugging and terminal on your phone is a joke and fun to show to your friends, but no more practical than a chainsaw dildo.

[shimomura]

Lol iPhone I don't like helping sheep

Sheep? What's wrong with appreciating the fact that it's the only phone in it's class to have implemented a 64 bit processor? After all, it has been time and time again proven to be the fastest phone out to date even with a dual core and half the ram. Although you have to jailbreak it to obtain full functionality, once it is jailbroken then you have a fully functional device capable of cracking wifi, finding vulnerabilities, launching exploits, and designing, all while be provided with the best processing power out to date for a phone. But god forbid you be seen with the same phone that a bunch of uneducated consumers bought because of a flashy ad campaign. That would just be fashion suicide wouldn't it DeepCopy? I bet you have  moustache, eat only "organic" food, and wear suspenders as well.

[iTpHo3NiX]

The attitude of iShit users are one in the same, look at your title "one phone to rule them all" despite the locked down phone with constant issues with an untethered jailbreak from a company that's notorious for going against innovation suing companies that improve upon their functionality. The reason the iShit works good is because the software is built for the hardware, the reason theres only one form factor and one phone. If you like choice and customizability Android is the way to go. If you like shiny smooth and fluid, iShits the way to go. Your ignorance in thinking that I don't appreciate good hardware/software is beyond me. I don't like apple as a company and I never said they don't make good devices. I just can't support a company that hinders innovation

[Kulverstukas]

oh god not again. Android vs. iShit discussion... if this continues then ima lock this.

Anyway... speaking of a hackibg phone, nokia n900 aka pwnphone is one phone built to be used as a miniature computer heh.
Running Maemo which is essentially Linux allows for some cool stuff.
At least few years ago it was swag as a pwnphone (so I heard doe) I dont know about today... I hear the support and the community is pretty dead.

[shimomura]

The "One phone to rule them all" was not referring to apple, it is referring to the communities opinions on what they think is the best. I didn't say you don't appreciate quality hardware, but it's lame to not provide productive and contributing input and deem anyone and everyone who owns ishit a sheep. I was leaning towards an Android OS anyways but it's not like I won't have to root it to gain sudo privledges to that phone as well, which like ishit has been made as difficult as possible and voids one's warranty. I suppose I can possess a bit of ignorance in me from time to time but forgive me, I try to ignore the politics of the market and was concentrating solely on processing power.