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Unfortunately none of them have easily replaceable batteries. I wouldn't get anything below the 9 due to the terrible, terrible optical fingerprint sensors on the others. The 9 and up use proper ultrasonic fingerprint sensors.
I sadly can't put Graphene on my pixel because I bought it through Verizon before I knew about their bootloader locking, but I have a 7 pro and the fingerprint sensor works completely fine.
The optical sensors are blinding in the dark and unreliable in my experience (I had a Pixel 7 non-pro). Also I do think you can get Verizon to unlock it for you, could be wrong though.
I'm going to try to get it unlocked once it's paid off later this year. As for the sensor, it definitely can be blinding but I've never had issues with it not working. Good to know newer ones don't have the blinding problem!
Pretty sure if you paid off the contract with the phone Verizon will unlock it for you.
It'll be paid off later this year and I'm going to give it a shot, but I'm pretty sure from the research I've done they'll unlock the carrier so you can use it with a different network. The bootloader they refuse to unlock for any phone purchased through them.