To combat malware and financial scams,
yeah, of course. Totally to combat malware.
Guess my current pixel is my last Android. Already refusing to update to the next horrible crap-version of lock-my-shit-away-from-me, but this? End of the line. Why even go android and not apple? It’s on the way to become exactly the same garbage. I WANT TO OWN MY DEVICES FOR FUCKS SAKE. Not pay 1000+ bucks to RENT a stupid phone. Go fork yourself. I’m tired, Boss…
Guess my current pixel is my last Android.
What then, iOS?
Some Linux phone. The only thing I will probably regret is the camera on those.
What exactly is this product, though? Does it already exist?
Yes. Some do. Not tried yet, simply because the cam is always not very competitive. But my next one will be one.
Wow, thanks! I only know the Fairphone…
I hope they all are kinda decent. But as long as my pixel works I don’t see a reason to buy a new one.
If Google strips our phones of NewPipe, etc., then yeah, that’s gonna be a problem, haha.
Maybe graphene?
Graphene is still based on AOSP, they could probably have a workaround for that but the main issue I can see is small projects being leftover by their devs because the majority of there users runs a Google controlled Android and thus they will be forced to verify… Some will do it other probably won’t.
I am concerned…
It that not moribund anyway? Isn’t the last android version going very closed source now and hence condemning all others based on it to die? If not now, then soon.
Not from my understanding of the situation, Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is still Free, Open Source and living.
What’s changing is that now with Android 16 and following, Google removed the Pixel device trees from the AOSP. But still according to them, they never considered AOSP providing device trees as a hardware requirement.
Also according to GrapheneOS team Pixel 10 has much more significant hardware changes than the Pixel 6a through Pixel 9a.
Hmm then it was something else. Google closed part of the source or their drivers off, so aosp is stuck wherever it’s now? There was something major that made me stop updating 🤔
Could you provide sources please? I think it’s “just” that the new commits aren’t public until the release is.
I think well see more ppl doing custom roms and whatever android version of jailbreaking is maybe? Dissapointing tho, this will be my last android tablet.
Let Google know what you think about this: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfN3UQeNspQsZCO2ITkdzMxv81rJDEGGjO-UIDDY28Rz_GEVA/viewform
So, for a Statesian that is trying to degoogle, what’s the best path? Lots of restrictions on phones we can get, sadly.
Fairphone seems like the best option at the moment. It uses e/os which is Android based, and you can run most of the apps on it. https://shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6
Yea, might have to. My phone is aging and doesn’t support LineageOS, sadly.
I’m still on Pixel 5 with LineageOS, but the battery is starting to go. Sadly, can’t get Fairphone in Canada yet. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like any of the Linux based phones are quite ready to be a daily driver either.
I know, I was just looking into the state of linux phones last night. I’d love a genuine alternative, but I need my phone for work for things like 2FA, Teams, etc that I just can’t use on linux phones yet it seems.
Yup, the app ecosystem is just not quite there yet, and google app store is still the only place for some apps you can’t do without.
Still holding hope that it will get there! Huge respect to the devs for this undertaking.
Indeed, having full blown Linux on the phone would honestly be the ideal option. I’m honestly surprised that nobody tried building hardware around this idea. You could have a single device that acts like a phone, but then you could make it dockable and the dock could add more ram and a better GPU, so then you could use it like a desktop. So, you’d just carry a single device around with you all the time and use it in different modes as needed. This would also avoid the need for using a lot of online services, like the calendar, which sync data across devices. You’d just always have all your data in one place.
Fairphone in Canada: https://lemmy.ca/post/50071607
You can’t get it from their official store though last I looked.
That’s correct. So warranty and such is difficult. But if you need one, it seems it’s available and it seems to work on Freedom. A friend is running an FP5 on Fido.
I figure I’ll hold out and see if it becomes officially available. My phone still works fine for the most part, and if battery holds out there’s nothing too wrong with it really.
