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What phone brand do you like the best? (midwest.social)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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*In terms of privacy, customisation, camera quality, and battery time.

For the longest time I have only used either iPhone or Samsung. I plan on switching to Android for the next phone I get, but I find that Samsung phones are often too big for me and put too much energy on camera quality (I don’t take many photos). I have started to look into brands such as Nokia and Motorola, and I would like to know what you guys think of them. Additionally, do you suggest any other phone brands aside from them? My biggest priorities are privacy and long battery time. Bonus if the phone can run LineageOS (I have excluded Graphene as they are only compatible with Pixel phones).

Thank you for any answers. Cheers!

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[+] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

graphene or calyxos is out

Graphene can run actual Google Play services sandboxed, so you might be in luck. I think CalyxOS has Google Play installed by default, so they may work as well, though it doesn't seem to be sandboxed. DivestOS may be an option as well.

Here's the page I'm pulling this from, I don't have any actual experience here (though planning to get a phone with an unlocked bootloader soon).

hoping in 5+ years time when my phone stops getting updates, that things will be a lot better in the linux mobile space

That's what I thought 4-ish years ago when I bought my current phone when I realized PinePhone wasn't going to be daily driveable, but things don't seem to have changed much (MMS seems to have gotten better, but still incomplete). Now I'm ready to replace it, and Linux phones still aren't daily driveable for me, but it's much better than before.

I'm still hopeful, but a little less excited than I was 4 years ago.