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Google Pixel alternatives? (lemmy.giftedmc.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm thinking of getting a second phone to ease off iOS. It has been good for productivity stuff but the closed off nature of the device keeps disrupting my plans. Everything is either expensive or ad ridden. (Except floccus, floccus is awesome)

So far I have read about graphene OS and am quite interested. I really despise google though. Any chance to use another device and put some linux flavor on it? I was playing with the idea of a pinephone but it seems to be nowhere near daily drivable, fairphone is starting at 580 €, volla phone (german) 450 €...

Some people said xiaomi should be rootable. But the amount of different phones is huge. The price range is awesome though. I was thinking sub 300 €/$ would be awesome so tinkering doesnt hurt me financially.

Disclaimer: I dont want to go full hermit mode with no sim and a faraday bag. I respect the opinion but thats not what I'm trying to do. I want to write some small apps for my phone and use it as a computer if needed. Calling, matrix and browser should work flawlessly.

Any ideas or suggestions? :)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

With the crowd here, I have completely de-googled my life, also hate google, and the data mining nightmare that comes along with it....but in the end. The pixel phones (with grapheneos) are the most secure and private out there, or one of the most should say, ya know seems odd that a phone by such a data hungry company, can be made into exactly the opposite. Have had 0 issues since running grapheneos on my pixel 6

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ya know seems odd that a phone by such a data hungry company, can be made into exactly the opposite.

It shouldn't feel odd, because we should have control over the hardware we buy, yet here we are.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

We do not have control over the extra "security" proprietary chip Pixels have. Yet these shills cheer Pixels and Graphene every single day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't know that, my google-fu turned up nothing do you have a link with more info?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Titan M (and M2 since 7 series) in Pixel phones are proprietary security chips solely found in Pixels and made by Google, a CIA shell company. There is no way to know what they process or do with the data stored in phone storage, and there is no reason why anything proprietary from western Big Tech should be trusted, that we cannot neuter/restrict.

I assumed this was common understanding among privacy folks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I think next to being data hungry they might actually make a sound business decision. I bet their pixel phones sell like hot pockets.

I can see how there isnt that much room to get another phone at this poing since pixel seems superior.

Can you elaborare on versions? The 6 seems to be universally loved. 7 I was told was a slight upgrade but not that awesome. How about 8? Also, will I be able to use the phone intil it breaks? Because I dont want to have another apple kill switch in my device.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

With the crowd here, I have completely de-googled my life, also hate google, and the data mining nightmare that comes along with it....but in the end. The pixel phones (with grapheneos) are the most secure and private out there

Who decided this? Was there a competition or a hacking contest? Or is it GrapheneOS propaganda?