GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-focused Android-based operating system, has posted a series of tweets on X suggesting that Android should introduce frequent auto-reboots to make it harder for forensic software vendors to exploit firmware flaws and spy on the users.
I wish Graphene would choose a better phone than ugly-looking Pixels.
My problem is not their design but the fact they are Google phones, as I boycott Google. Also second hand Pixels are hard to acquire for a reasonable price…
Guess that depends on what you mean by reasonable.
The 5 is $130 as refurb, with warranty, from walmart. It was $699 new.
If you want a newer phone, well, it’s gonna cost more. Just like brand new phones.
If their price is still “high”, that simply reflects their desireabilty, probably from a balance of features and performance by price.
So you shouldn’t really be using any Android phone then…
What, and use Apple? Linux phones aren’t usable yet, and at least android is open source so using a non google Android phone doesn’t support Google.
“pretty phones over privacy” is a wild take ngl
As far as I know they only accept Pixel devices because they are the only devices on the market that allow locking the bootloader after installation and also because of the Titan coprocessor which greatly increases system security
Why would I want to lock the bootloader? I like having freedom 9f OS, I don’t want to replace one OS I’m locked into with a different, albeit more privacy friendly one. Most laptops have unlocked bootloaders.
AFAIK on Xiaomi Mi A2 lite if I flash back the stock fastboot ROM (I had it do it once because I crippled the partition images (this phone is A/B partition device)) it locks your bootloader and you have to unlock it again. I don’t know if this applyes to MIUI/Hyper OS phones too, because mi a2 lite used near to stock android.
There’s also a third reason, which is regular and timely firmware updates. One of the reasons why the GrapheneOS team rejected the Fairphone was due to the lack of proper firmware updates.
All phones look the same