Comment on Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoSame. I don’t care about the camera or AI features, the speakers could be louder, and a few other nitpicks, but it supports GrapheneOS, has a long SW support cycle, and has some great security hardware, so I bought one. I actually kind of prefer my older, crappy Moto phone in some ways, but I’m unwilling to use an insecure device, and ROMs aren’t supported (well, I guess I could sign an abusive agreement).
So yeah, Pixel wins for me because of GOS and longer SW support. That’s honestly it.
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
You could try the fairphone
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I could, but I’m in the US, and only the Fairphone 4 seems to be available, and that has limited updates left. I’m also not sold on /e/OS, but it’s probably fine.
Krzd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fairphone can run GOS just fine btw. eOS is just also “approved” by fairphone themselves
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Really? It’s certainly not supported by GOS, and it seems to be because FairPhone is late on shipping security patches. It would be awesome if they did get support though.
kelargo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m in the US. I bought the fairphone 5 and it works fine with Mint Mobile, T-Mobile mvno. I got it to replace my LG V20. Both have replaceable batteries.