Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoPixels have hardware documentation and are directly supported by Android, making them possible for the GrapheneOS dev community to support. Good luck doing that on a Samsung.
Motorola is doing good here. Also, buy a used Pixel 8, you’ll have almost three years of support left.
sefra1@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
That’s the thing, even used Pixels are almost twice the price of what I paid for my new phone.
Back when I bought my phone I considered that route. but then since I can’t replace the batteries on new phones without risking destroying the device.
I also understand that GrapheneOS can’t be installed on any “unlocked” phone, it needs to be OEM unlocked and most sellers don’t know/specify, so ended up considering too expensive and too much of a risk.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pick your poison. Want cheap? Be tracked. Want privacy? Pay the price.
futurp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I asked Motorola for an OEM unlock code for an Edge 30 Neo and got it straight away. I then installed Lineage OS 22, and the phone is working really well. The total cost is one-third of what a used Pixel 8 would cost.