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No need to ditch Android. Fairphone exists: https://fairphone.com https://fairphone.com Their stock android is fine. If you want more privacy, installing e/OS/
by hkt 1y ago
No need to ditch Android. Fairphone exists: https://fairphone.com https://fairphone.com
Their stock android is fine. If you want more privacy, installing e/OS/ is trivial. It blows my mind that anyone is concluding Samsung stuff is worth buying under any circumstances.
- subscribed 1y agoFairphone has astonishingly bad upgrades and patches policy. Very late, very delayed, not all of them. Sure, better than, say, Sony (and as an ex-Sony user I kind of know what I'm talking about), but far from calling it good.
- Aachen 1y agoEvery vendor waits a month before sending out security patches, including Google. I've never understood this (with Linux desktops as my context) but so if you have a risk profile where the OS needs more frequent updates but still want to use Android, you need to take extra hardening steps such as limiting what you expose the OS to (from the outside (firewall, turn off unnecessary connections like Bluetooth) and inside (potentially malicious apps))
- dotancohen 1y agoI buy Samsung for the S-Pen. The moment a viable alternative comes along, I'll be the first to try it.
- rs186 1y agoWhat about people who are not in Europe? And for US carriers, you are basically locked out of Wi-Fi calling if you are not using one of the whitelisted devices.
- subscribed 1y agoGrapheneOS if you can live without Google Wallet and hardened Google Pixel (the only secure Android device family to date).