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Which Pixel to get? (mander.xyz)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My current phone (iPhone 13 mini) is telling me to retire it, and I want to get into Graphene. I really dislike that my phone sometimes will just hang while I’m swipe typing and don’t want to buy a new one that has these latency issues. I also don’t want to spend a ton of money.

I was looking at the Pixel 8a which is being sold for $500. Anyone else use it with Graphene? Do you use a swipe keyboard? Any responsiveness issues?

What about storage? Coming from Apple, I can see my current phone using about 64GB with OS + apps. Anyone recently made the transition and can tell me if I can expect this number to grow or shrink?

Thanks a bunch!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Ive been using GOS with pixel 8a for a month or so. Coming from 12 mini. The biggest differences i notice is battery. I had to charge twice a day in the morning and evening with 12 mini. With P8a, once before i sleep and it still has around 60% average. 40% if i really use it and 80% if it's a busy day.

Cant help about swipe keyboard. I personnaly use floris KB. Just normal touch typing. No autocorrect and suggestion. So far, no problem with responsiveness. 120hz is an eye opening.

I got the 128GB version. As of this moment, im using 15% with 109GB left. I got 25 third party apps. But most of them is Fossify apps. Im not much of an apps guy. I only install what i need.

Safe to say, ill probably gonna stay with GOS for good. All my apps are from fdroid, except a couple of apps like signal. I have private space set up for my banking app since it needs sandboxed play store. I have aurora store in there too. Owner profile is strictly FOSS apps.

i actually tried GOS awhile ago but i cant do it since tried to do it in one go. Big mistakes in my part. End of last year, i bought a server for nextcloud. I moved my files, photos, contact etc into nextcloud plus setting up a reverse proxy for it. Had to migrate my email to custom domain. I did it bit by bit until im no longer tied to icloud. Best decision so far.

[–] philycheeze 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Was the banking stuff easy to get working? I’m looking to ditch my iPhone but I also don’t want to spend more than a weekend getting my basics swapped over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Pretty easy for my bank. My bank has a 2FA, like or not i need the app if i need to do online transaction. Cant do shit with the website.

The stupid thing is, my bank only need playstore app installed when im trying to activate the 2FA. After i activate the 2FA, my banking app doesnt seem to care if playstore is installed.

You can refer bank compatibilty here.

, https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

My banking app works, but I stopped using it because it's bloated garbage (100mb!?)

Instead I use Hermit or Native Alpha to create shortcuts to websites like bank, Amazon, etc. These make websites function like apps, so I don't need the crappy apps from these places, and have a single app install instead of multiple crappy apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I can second this. Picked up an 8a a few months ago. Read up on installing GOS and had no issues putting it on for the first time. Spent a few weeks reading the GOS docs/forum, exploring, and experimenting to figure out how I wanted it set up. Been so happy that my only regret is not splurging on a pro model.