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Nice development. Just yesterday I ordered a Pixel 6 to replace my ageing Ubuntu Phone — Google's Pixel smartphones are the only ones really well supported by p
by Freak_NL 5y ago
Nice development. Just yesterday I ordered a Pixel 6 to replace my ageing Ubuntu Phone — Google's Pixel smartphones are the only ones really well supported by privacy focussed Android forks like GrapheneOS and CalyxOS (I intend to install GrapheneOS on it). Currently, this seems like a decent middle ground between being able to run apps from one of the two app stores (Apple's and Google's) when needed without sacrificing too much control over your computing devices.
Having to buy the hardware from Google leaves a bit of bad aftertaste though. I really hope that in the future I can just get something like a Fairphone and be able to run a fully supported more user-aligned OS on it.
- tholdem 5y agoGrapheneOS is collaborating with a hw vendor to create a device that can run GOS and which has similar hw to current Pixel devices. https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1490518600339308544 https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1490518600339308544
- mickotron 5y agoThat is amazing. I have been a happy GOS user for years. Sadly, my Pixel 3a EOL is next month. I opted for an iPhone this time as they generally are supported for longer periods of time. Maybe my next phone will be a phone designed for GOS :)
- tholdem 5y agoYou should probably get Pixel 6(pro) as they are supported almost as long as iOS on iPhones. Here is a Reddit post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/souxzc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/souxzc/ My personal hunch is that this might have something to do with the GOS collaboration announcement: https://www.androidpolice.com/osom-ov1-exclusive/ https://www.androidpolice.com/osom-ov1-exclusive/
- mickotron 5y agoI can’t deal with phones that physically big :( if pixels were the size of the mini I would have bought it.
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoI've been yammering about this for months and years here and other places and somehow missed it — THANK YOU for sharing, incredible.