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I keep bitching about my Galaxy Tab A9+ and I will till the day I die. I fucking hate that thing for not having any Custom ROMs, and I despise the fact that it doesn’t allow OEM unlocking (afaik). I mean, it was a gift, so I still appreciate it, but MAN will I never buy Samsung with my own money ever.
Anyway I wish people would stop crying for Samsung Graphene while knowing full well that Samsung is essentially the Apple of the Android world; Locked down to all hell.
It’d be nice to not have to buy Google anything, but I want security, to be able to use most of my apps, and I don’t wanna buy a Chinese phone, so here we are.
Uh yeah? I never said Pixels are Chinese. I use GOS on my Pixel 8a and I love it. I just don’t like the fact that Google is our only option right know if you want a degoogled phone that also cares about security.
Side note about other ROMs like LineageOS
I think LineageOS is a fantastic project for giving old phones new life (I tested it on my old Moto G7 Play!) , but it still doesn’t have all the lovely features GOS has.
And I also never said anything about app issues with Graphene? Most have worked flawlessly (I do have play services installed tbf), the only ones that didn’t were Paypal and my debit card bank (credit one works though), and in Veronica’s video I saw she had PayPal downloaded, so I guess they fixed it in the time that I tried to get it to work.
But I hope Linux phones become viable soon, as AOSP is a sinking ship as long as Google is the head of it.
Hey! Avoid Google by buying a phone from… GOOGLE!
Seriously. I wish the devs would work on bringing the OS to Samsung phones instead. They’re just as popular, if not more than Google Pixel phones.
Part of the issue is that the latest version of Samsung’s OneUI completely removes the option to unlock the bootloader. More technical info on the (xda forum).
I keep bitching about my Galaxy Tab A9+ and I will till the day I die. I fucking hate that thing for not having any Custom ROMs, and I despise the fact that it doesn’t allow OEM unlocking (afaik). I mean, it was a gift, so I still appreciate it, but MAN will I never buy Samsung with my own money ever.
Anyway I wish people would stop crying for Samsung Graphene while knowing full well that Samsung is essentially the Apple of the Android world; Locked down to all hell.
It’d be nice to not have to buy Google anything, but I want security, to be able to use most of my apps, and I don’t wanna buy a Chinese phone, so here we are.
Pixel 10 isn’t made in China, and almost all apps work on Graphene just fine.
Uh yeah? I never said Pixels are Chinese. I use GOS on my Pixel 8a and I love it. I just don’t like the fact that Google is our only option right know if you want a degoogled phone that also cares about security.
Side note about other ROMs like LineageOS
I think LineageOS is a fantastic project for giving old phones new life (I tested it on my old Moto G7 Play!) , but it still doesn’t have all the lovely features GOS has.
And I also never said anything about app issues with Graphene? Most have worked flawlessly (I do have play services installed tbf), the only ones that didn’t were Paypal and my debit card bank (credit one works though), and in Veronica’s video I saw she had PayPal downloaded, so I guess they fixed it in the time that I tried to get it to work.
But I hope Linux phones become viable soon, as AOSP is a sinking ship as long as Google is the head of it.
I’m not due to replace my Samsung Xcover with a headphone jack and removable battery for a while yet, I got it in March 2024…
But when I do in a few years, I’d like the Jolla phone as its app support probably has matured at that point.
Aw crap. OK then.
I didn’t know that.
Pixels have better security features than Samsung and doesn’t prevent you from using third party OSes.
More details here: https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices
What I don’t get is that is
U ok?
You can find pixels on swappa and not give Google your money.
I’m looking for a Pixel 9 Pro as an upgrade for my existing 7 Pro and it’s cheaper used (obviously).
Buy the phone used?
Also Samsung hasn’t allowed unlocked bootloader’s in a fucking minute nor do they publish their device trees
Just buy refurbished. Better for the environment too.