I broke my phone a few months ago and I hadn’t use a phone since I didn’t need it until now. I’m willing to buy one that’s around under 500$. I’m thinking of getting google pixel maybe, any recommendations?
I broke my phone a few months ago and I hadn’t use a phone since I didn’t need it until now. I’m willing to buy one that’s around under 500$. I’m thinking of getting google pixel maybe, any recommendations?
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Privacy can be controlled on application level, but there are a lot of system stuff that user can’t change and the best solution for system is GrapheneOS in terms of security, as I said in first comment.
Google is evil, no question about that, but Google is just a brand / label on the phone. Ironically, but most secure and privacy-friendly phone is Google Pixel without Google
As for privacy, any phone capable of running lineageos is fine, but lacks security
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OK, has any xiaomi phone audited by anybody?
What about proprietary hardware of all other vendors?
I’m not trying to say that pixel is perfect or something, I think whole mobile market is a proprietary shit, tbh. But you need phone anyway, so IMT just trying to tell that pixel smells less that xiaomi, Asus or anything else
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I’m not from USA and “cultism” is not for me, I’m enthusiast of open source and don’t trust proprietary software and hardware. Sadly, but there is no 100% hardware ready for end-users, so I’m just trying to find a balance.
Btw, any device has proprietary “security” components, so it’s all about “smells less”, not " trusted one".
My own opinion - GrapheneOS is good one, using it on Pixel devices is a trade-off.
Anyway, that thread comes to holywar and I don’t want to take part in it, my arguments and thoughts you can find in comments above, if you disagree with them - OK, I’m fine with it. Just shared my thoughts
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what do you recommend then?
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I can agree on Fairphone, but all other vendors… Are you joking?
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The Graphene group account actually gave some good replies to that thread - you just don’t have a clue what you are talking about. The dev doesn’t solely trust Google just because - as they’ve stated many times - there just aren’t good alternative phones with decent security baselines.
I’m not even sure what you mean by “technical support for custom firmware” - Graphene pushes firmware updates with their OTAs.
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Well, one of my friends owns a Fairphone, and they told me that the worst thing about it is that Android updates take a age to be released: https://forum.fairphone.com/t/android-11-has-arrived-when-will-we-see-it-on-our-3s-and-3-s/64273/6
Whereas I had Android 11 on my graphene phone a few weeks after it was released by Google.
IMHO, until the actual version is supported and security updates are on par, there is absolutely no reasons to rush a major update (or even release it, actually). I will be more than happy to stay on a stable version for a longer time and having a phone actually supported for more than a blink, instead of a phone who bring one major update and kill support after 2 weeks.
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I think it’s reasonable to presume that the founder of GrapheneOS would own the official GrapheneOS account on reddit. You’re the one that literally linked us to the discussion, so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make with this.
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What should I use?
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I thought xiaomi is a chinese phone. is it safe?
Ignore them, they don’t have a clue what they’re talking about.
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