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My internal fight over what device to buy (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello there! This is my problem: I'm going to buy a new smartphone, and I'd really like to degoogle myself as much as possible. The idea would be to buy a device compatible with LineageOS, but... Supported devices are usually older models, and often there are newer devices with better specs for the same price, that does not support lineageOS. Is seems a shame to buy a device with lower specs than another one just because of software compatibility. So the alternative would be to buy an unsupported device, unlock the bootloader and debloat it as much as possible, flash privileged fdroid and aurora store on it, install microg, etc... What do you suggest me to do? Is the second alternative a viable option? What other steps should I do if I decide to go that way?

Thanks in advance folks!

Edit:
Thanks to anyone for the great answers! I finally decided to buy a pixel 6 (or 6 pro if I find a good deal) and install a custom ROM on it! GrapheneOS will support it for "only" 3 more years, while other roms like lineageos or divestos will have longer support. What do you suggest? Graphene OS and when support ends switch to another one? O directly use the other one?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you have the money and you care about not buying or owning a Google product, and / or you care about repairability, get a FairPhone: you can install ~~GrapheneOS or~~ CalyxOS on them and they too support relocking the bootloader. It's not just Pixel phones.

Bonus: they have a SD card slot, unlike Pixel phones.

They're not the speediest or sleekest devices, but that's not where the interest lies with Fairphone cellphones: they're mostly designed for long life and easy maintenance, and they're made by a cool company I want to support personally. And they're not made by Google, so buying one won't support Google or the Pixel ecosystem in any way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fairphone is not supported by GrapheneOS, here's a detailed explanation as to why

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah yes you're correct. I got confused.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have the money

here's the problem XD I'm willing to pay around 350€, 400 at most, and the fairphone 4 starts from over 500€

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah they're not cheap 🙁 It's too bad because they're really decent cellphones. But they're twice the price of anything equivalent from any of the big manufacturers.