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[–] DaddleDew 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (34 children)

GrapheneOS. Easy, quick, reliable.

Yeah you have to buy a phone by Google but I don't mind giving them money to reward them for making a decent phone with an easily unlockable bootloader that lets you do what you want with it, even if it means denying them your data. This is extremely atypical from a company like Google so I want to encourage that kind of behavior.

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[–] DaddleDew 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Paid under 400 for a new Pixel 7 two years ago after waiting for the prices to go down and it was about to be discontinued. No idea how much they cost now but you'll always overpay if you go for the latest and greatest.

[–] ralakus 1 points 2 days ago

Google usually does a good sale of the previous generation once the new ones are ready to come out. I got my pixel 7 $350 USD brand new right before the pixel 8 came out.

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