I’m on the fence with getting a new phone. Should I buy something now, like a Pixel 10 or Fairphone 6 and flash Graphene/eOs on it, or wait for next gen which might have these restrictions?
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The tech companies are doing a great job at making me uninterested in the hottest new phones. I used to follow the news about them and know the tech specs and stuff, because I’m a nerd and gadgets are fun and smart phones in particular are the intersection of SO much technology and engineering. Moore’s law was alive and well during all my formative years, so I am even conditioned to expect the excitement.
But lately, not only have I been ignoring what the big players are offering, I have been ignoring the phone I already have! Instead I have a PC at the end of the couch with a monitor on an arm that s swings right over my lap.
I use my phone pretty much just for music, web browser, Voyager (Lemmy on the go), and occasional texting. When I am at home I will sometimes misplace my phone for hours and just not worry about it.
I have already pushed the megacorp phone + social media experience so far out of my daily life, that if future options for open linux phones are rough around the edges and don’t have tap to pay then oh well I don’t think I care.
It’s much easier to live without the shiny new thing once you see how well your brain does when separated from it. (and you have some loved ones who are still hopelessly addicted to the scroll)
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I’ll be frank with you. As long as my customers are captive on either Apple or Google platforms I can’t do shit.
Fairphone, here I come.
Yeah, I’m not buying any more Pixels. I got the Fairphone 6! It’s good! I’m in the US, so I got it from Clove. Works fine on T-Mobile.
Although, I’m currently running Android… Probably have to install e/OS or something.
I hope Fairphone can continue to grow to eventually meet Graphene’s hardware requirements.
Pixels are the best phones to buy since you can install GrapheneOS…
You’ve got Framework laptops, who make repairable modular laptops. Seems great in theory but i haven’t got one to test.
Tickle those guys to get into phones too.
Anyways there are very few companies now who actually respect right to privacy, repair, etc. Treat their employees like humans and don’t shit on environment.
I probably just need to buy a fair phone at this point.
Out of the loop here. How can google lockdown an open-source operating system? I know they are involved in developing it because it benefits them, but does that mean they own it?
So, does it mean that degooglized android phones will suffer as well?
The comments keep mentioning Linux phones, have they managed to get Linux running on mobile hardware that I won’t have to go on an archaeological dig for?
I want to get a pixel 10 so I can have grapheneOS on it. Fuck it! I am always in a race against time.
10 does not have a sim card tray, the 9’s do. First post with grapheneos on a new to me 9 I was able to get!
Yes it does.
It depends what country you’re in. The US doesn’t and Canada does (not sure about elsewhere).
I am in Canada, so that does make sense. Interesting that the US doesn’t though. I for sure wouldn’t have got this if I was forced to use an esim.
I am also in Canada. I just called my mobility provider and told them I wanted a new phone and that i wanted to pay off my current phone immediately.
So which is it? Pixel 9 or 10?
Pixel 10. I got mine from Costco on black Friday. They were having some crazy deals that basically paid you to take the device home lol. It’s the only reason I upgraded.
I wish I could find a deal like that, but as it stands I will need to pay a lump sum to my provider to pay off the remaining balance on my Samsung S23, which I am going to keep. I will format it securely and use it with a prepaid sim as a travel phone with next to nothing on it. GrapheneOS goes on my Pixel 10 and I want to degoogle it. It will pose a mild issue since sometimes I (sadly) do need to check my gmail, and I really don’t know if putting it on my GrapheneOS is a good idea.
You could be right. I looked at several of them on eBay and could only find phones with the e-sim, couldn’t find any with sim card tray.
Kmacmartin pointed out that the SIM tray is available only in certain countries. So maybe it’s worth checking out Canadian listings? I wouldn’t want to be forced to use esim either.
You can put this on a Nothing CMF Phone 1 btw.
