• ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Hey! Avoid Google by buying a phone from… GOOGLE!

    Seriously. I wish the devs would work on bringing the OS to Samsung phones instead. They’re just as popular, if not more than Google Pixel phones.

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      5 hours ago

      Buy the phone used?

      Also Samsung hasn’t allowed unlocked bootloader’s in a fucking minute nor do they publish their device trees

      • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        8 hours ago

        I keep bitching about my Galaxy Tab A9+ and I will till the day I die. I fucking hate that thing for not having any Custom ROMs, and I despise the fact that it doesn’t allow OEM unlocking (afaik). I mean, it was a gift, so I still appreciate it, but MAN will I never buy Samsung with my own money ever.

        Anyway I wish people would stop crying for Samsung Graphene while knowing full well that Samsung is essentially the Apple of the Android world; Locked down to all hell.

        It’d be nice to not have to buy Google anything, but i want security, to be able to use most pf my apps, and I don wanna buy a Chinese phone, so here we are.

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          6 hours ago

          I’m not due to replace my Samsung Xcover with a headphone jack and removable battery for a while yet, I got it in March 2024…

          But when I do in a few years, I’d like the Jolla phone as its app support probably has matured at that point.

    • plateee@piefed.social
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      8 hours ago

      You can find pixels on swappa and not give Google your money.

      I’m looking for a Pixel 9 Pro as an upgrade for my existing 7 Pro and it’s cheaper used (obviously).