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[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Any specific reason why they should be phones older than 2020?

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 5 days ago

After 2020 it's guaranteed to be ugly and dumb. Also I'm buying it used, I want it cheap.

[–] Im_old@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago
[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

Samsung Galaxy S5 was/is a good device for tinkering. Supports many custom ROMs from CyanogenMod to Lineage to Ubuntu and postmarketOS.

Has a removable battery, 3.5mm audio jack, SD card slot. IIRC it worked fine on 3G, but did not support calls on 4G.

[–] Hond@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Aren't most/all of the newer Motos bootloader unlockable? I'm in the market for a new phone, but not wanting google or apple all up in my shit. Not a fan of pixel phones, so...

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, me aswell.

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The Xiaomi Mi A1 from late 2017 had very good ROM/rooting capabilities when I last used it 4-5 years ago. It didn't have a removable battery though. The second sim slot can function as a microSD card and it has a 3.5 mm audio port.

Checking the LOS website, they say it has support for LOS 20 / Android 13, which is pretty impressive considering the official ROM only went up to Android 9.0. I stopped using the device on LOS 17.1 / Android 10.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago

Nexus 4

Great little device from 2013-ish and could take a beating. Battery wasn't too difficult to replace. No SD slot, though.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 4 days ago

poco f1 maybe. runs mainline linux

i like my xperia xz1c, but its very hard to replace battery