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GrapheneOS now officially supports Pixel 9, 9 Pro, and 9 Pro XL | GrapheneOS is a private, secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility, developed as a non-profit open source project (9to5google.com)

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[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (23 children)

I am currently in the market for a new mobile phone. The current's one battery is basically dead and because of security patches now being about 2 years old I have to replace it whole instead of just getting the battery replaced again.

Pixel with GrapheneOS has been my number one choice for some time but...

there is no (privacy friendly & legal) replacement for Google Play Protect. My banking app won't work without it as well as one other app I kind of need too.
I am also just too used to having a phone in the 250-300 EUR range in the sense that I don't have to care about it that much.
It's a "consumable" product for me. Loosing/drowning it is not a big deal, where drowning 800 euros is just hard to justify no matter how much money I make.

I will probably just get the OnePlus Nord 4 instead because of their pledge to do 6 years of updates.

[–] Noxious@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Your bank specifically requires Play Protect? That's odd, I've never heard of something like that before. I'd still check this list to see if it might be compatible with GrapheneOS: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

You can get a Pixel 7a for under 300 EUR, and it is supported until 2028, so you don't lose out on updates.

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