Comment by tazjin
6 hours ago
Currently, switching to GrapheneOS means giving Google money. Next year's Motorola-based alternative is also likely going to be several price classes above the Pixels you can currently put GrapheneOS on.
6 hours ago
Currently, switching to GrapheneOS means giving Google money. Next year's Motorola-based alternative is also likely going to be several price classes above the Pixels you can currently put GrapheneOS on.
Then buy a Pixel second-hand or when they hit rock-bottom prices, which usually happens after 6 months or so. At some point Google is probably not making a lot of profit from the devices anymore and they want to sell it to you for tracking and to sell Google One subscriptions, which are mostly irrelevant if you use GrapheneOS.
I don't want to pay more than $150 for a phone, though. And installing an alternate OS is a real hassle.
If the current $500 pixels are too expensive you're going to hate the $1000 motorolas.
Stretching that budget to about $350 would get you a new Pixel a-series, on sale. It's well worth it.
you can get a pixel 7 good condition for that
Not really, GrapheneOS has a nice web installer that makes all the job for the user.
I followed Pixel prices for the last year, and rock-bottom for a 256gb version (the current absolute minimum for a device without an sd, to my eyes) meant 450€.
There are occasional good deals for (unused) older models on eBay, but they're surprisingly rare.
I wonder if Google demands stores to give the old models back, after the release of newer ones; they disappear from every store extremely quickly.
There's zero reason to buy a last year phone.