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what foss phone OS do you use and why?
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Used pixels are surprisingly cheap for how well they hold up over time, and graphene works well.
I totally agree. Used pixels are superb with grapheneos. Syncthing is what i use ad a backup. I think the problemi is that google stops releasing updates after 5 yearss old units don't get updates I think. I have the 5th June build and it reports a security update of December 2023.
If you don't live in the EU. Here you get a better new phone from xiaomi/motorola/oneplus than a pixel for the same price. Yes, I get grapheneos and relockable bootloader, but used things are too expensive here. If you need a cheap phone, buy a cheap phone (fuck EU's import regulations).
I don't know what you are on about, but if brand-new Pixels are too expensive for you (although their price is uniformed to the US one), you can easily find them second-hand.
For example at a time where my Pixel 7 was available for 500$ (466€) in the USA + 100$ trade in (93€) for my Galaxy S8 = 400$ = 373€ it still was 620€ in Austria on Amazon, the only way to buy it because Google did not offer it through their Google store here and normal stores didn't go below 650€. I could've gotten 20€ trade in for my old phone = 600€. 60% more than in the USA at the same time.
Used market basically didn't exist because Pixels generally were a bit overpriced
Doesn't it seem that this problem is caused by Google not operating the markets in the same way?
Yes, but Persen's point still stands.
(And Pixels also have way less features here, the only advantage they give is access to GrapheneOS, great camera and AI photo editing)
Which features do the lack?
US-only:
Call screening
Hold for me
Direct my call
Wait times
Call transcription
Answering calls with text to speech
Emergency calls on crash
English-only:
Speaker labels for Google recorder transcripts
Google recorder transcripts generally don't work well in other languages, but at least the option to get a subpar transcript exists
Probably missed some
That's the point. You can't import anything to EU without paying a 20% import tax +-5€ depending on the import. This makes the used device market prices in EU inflated.
Why would you import used devices from the US in the first place? People sell them in Europe too.
Most of the market was from UK (where we all know what happened) plus taxing imports inflated the EU market.
Which generation would you recommend? As used.
I like the 7. IIRC, the 6 had reliability issues, and the 5 was only available in a smaller size.
Thanks.
I've been using a 6 since it's release, it's been solid for me. The 7 is slightly sleeker/smaller but they're almost identical in performance.
7a would be the best balance between cod and expected support timeframe
I miss my pixel 5 :(
If you want updates, may be go for gen 6/7. 5a won't be receiving updates after August 2024.
See: https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-lifetime
Thanks