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would you wait for the Grapheneos-Motorola phone or buy a new pixel now? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) by selfmate@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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There is no date of arrival for the motorola yet. I only read beginning of 2027. That could also be delayed. And if it is a phone with underwhelming specs, I wouldn't want to buy it either. But buying a pixel now means not buying a motorola soon.

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[–] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 10 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

If you want GrapheneOS without funding Google, why not get a secondhand Pixel?

[–] hneerqe@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Google phone sales don't even register as change

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago

This is what I did but you do need to be careful with it - in the US ar least you can't unlock the bootloader on a Verizon-issued pixel which are very common. Always ask the seller where they got it from, since most wouldn't be technical enough to check the bootloader for you

[–] pmk@piefed.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I've had to accept that I'm too careless to have expensive phones, and I don't need new hardware, so I'm staying at the oldest supported pixel and upgrading in that area second-hand. Currently I have a pixel 6a (with a cracked screen...), but might move to a pixel 8 next year. Somehow I wish I could support Fairphone, but I keep reading things like people having issues with it and I want my phone to "just work", and graphene has been great for that.