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 No.4322

I hate to bring this up, but I'm probably not the only one with this dilemma, so here goes:

Phones. They suck. You probably own one and hate it. What's the current strategy to make them suck less?
My 2016-era budget phone running CyanogenMod (last version before the hostile takeover) is on its last legs, and I'm a bit lost.
I hear LineageOS, CalyxOS and GrapheneOS are the current tried-and-tested options. There's also some controversy about microG vs. stripped versions of the proprietary Googleblobs which I'm not quite up to date with.
Do you have any experience with the above? I hear Pixel hardware is good for the price (if you're prepared to pay Google to get rid of Google), OnePlus is good if you're prepared to pay iPhone prices (which I'm not), and Motorola is good if you're on a budget and prepared to put up with their "ask permission to unlock" nonsense. There's also the Fairphone, but no one I know who owns one has ever said anything positive about the hardware despite loving the idea.

 No.4323

I don't have a smart phone so I couldn't tell you. Well I do, but I just use it as a camera. Most people like android for its freedom, right? That's about the only thing I know.
I should get a smartphone one of these days...

 No.4324

>>4323
>I don't have a smart phone so I couldn't tell you. Well I do, but I just use it as a camera.
Bless you. Please take many cat pictures.
>I should get a smartphone one of these days...
Honestly, if you haven't missed the experience so far, you're probably better off outside the ecosystem.

 No.4325

If you're used to Cyanogen, then just go with Lineage, it's the successor.

 No.4326

The last time I seriously used custom ROMs on Android was also probably when CyanogenMod was still a thing. As for nowadays I've heard good stuff GrapheneOS and LineageOS but not sure of the hardware compatibility of either.
These days I just use a flip phone and barely at that, but back then custom ROMs were neat to mess with. I do wonder if Android device OEMs still do the awful custom UI things like they did back then like Samsung's Touchwiz for example.

 No.4327

>>4322
>GrapheneOS
>Pixel hardware
Apparently Google is making changes to Pixel so that you can no longer (easily?) create a customROM for it.
I don't remember the exact contents of the video...
>>4323
>android for its freedom
Freedom to shoot yourself in the foot and sell your data to as many vendors as possible.
iOS seems more privacy/security focused than android.

 No.4328

I use cheap phone from brand I know

 No.4332

>>4324
>Bless you. Please take many cat pictures.
and then please give them back

 No.4341

>>4327
Closed source software is inherently untrustworthy. Apple can talk about how private IOS is until the cows come home, but you as a user know very little of what it is actually doing under the hood. That's not to say that open source is itself always trustworthy, you still need to be careful, but it at the very least can be independently audited.




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