I assume everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
I’m just a scrub using stock Android. Am I the only one?
I use stock android but hate smartphones and only own it because of a previous job that required one but gave a monthly comp so you had to get one. I keep minimal apps on it. have it shutoff most times. I use it for phone calls and camera mostly with maybe maps and calendar. I have f-droid to avoid google apps but the stock camera works better than my alternate app so I use that for photos more.
iPhone. Don’t know the model number but it has four cameras and is huge.
iPhone 14 Pro
Just switched to Graphene on a refurbished 10 Pro XL
Prior to that was a RedMagic 10 ProiPhone 15 pro max
I’d never use an iPhone if my phone were my main device—but I just want a phone/camera that I don’t have to think about beyond those specific functions, and for that my iPhone 12 mini works fine.
https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-star ? Its form factor sort of makes worrying about anything else impossible.
Phone? I largely use my tablet while I’m at home. Don’t ask what phone I use when traveling, it’s about a joke of a thing that barely works and probably isn’t even worth $5 as is, working. But it makes and receives calls and text at least.
Anyways, my tablet is a Maxwest Astro 8R. Also not all that much to brag on, but it’s powerful enough to emulate a PSP almost seamlessly. Camera sucks though and doesn’t have all that many sensors, not even a compass sensor.
Its running stock Android 11 that came with it, but I’ve never signed into Google and ive disabled practically all Google apps, including specifically Google Play and related services. F-Droid and sideloaded apps for me, I don’t even use the GBoard keyboard, Futo Keyboard for the win!
I keep buying motorolas because they’re rugged as fuck. I get a new one every 3-5 years. They’re all the same-ish these days, and rarely come with any sort of incentive or discount, so it doesn’t make sense to refesh too often. I try to get my money’s worth from my devices.
Can’t tell you how many samsungs my kids have broken, but both of their motos still work.
Can confirm, Motorola makes some pretty rugged phones. I had my T-Mobile Revvlry+ (based on the Motorola G7 but different camera) for like 7 years.
After the power button literally took a shit, I opened it up to see if I could fix it. Somehow they managed to seal the buttons in an aluminum block, completely non-serviceable, so I just kept using it for another 6 months or so, using the charging cable to wake it from sleep.
Knowing the phone was on its way out (oh yeah I forgot to mention the busted screen), I backed everything up, got sick and tired of the thing, and broke it in half by hand. And oh boy that phone was tougher to break than I thought…
the power button literally took a shit
Eww.
LOL, you know what I mean, it stopped working.
Kinda hard to consider reviving the phone if the battery ever went totally dead after that, so I knew after I realized it wasn’t properly serviceable that it was on its way out anyways.
iPhone with plans to switch to GrapheneOS on a pixel soon.
Fairphone 6 with Android. Waiting for Motorola+GrapheneOS phone.
Redmi note 13pro 5g with cdroid without google services or gapps
/e/-OS on Fairphone 5.
I am not worthy 🥹
Fairphone 5 with android, I’m contemplating moving to e/os but I need to take the time you do it.
Pixel 8 stock, haven’t gotten around to Graphene OS yet and a little worried it won’t work with my bank/credit card apps. I think I can revert to stock if things don’t work for me so I might try soon.
I really miss my LG G8 though.
If you do test out Graphene, long hold on an app and select App Info then disable all the hardening and sandbox stuff you can for bank apps to stand the best chance of them working.
Do all of your banks have websites?
I have a pixel 6 pro running the stock OS. I will run it until it is on its last legs and decide where to go next. To use banking and government apps here, I’m somewhat limited in my choices.
Have you enjoyed it
When it came out, it had some issues that took a while to work out. Otherwise, it works without me noticing it the vast majority of the time which is what I want in a phone.
