I assume everyone on Lemmy uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?
I’m just a scrub using stock Android. Am I the only one?
I’d love to be using GrapheneOS, but I refuse to lower my standards to a sub-par device, and certainly wouldn’t pay the Google tax for the privilege. So I’m currently using a Galaxy Note9 with NobleROM while hoping against all logic that the Motorola + GrapheneOS partnership doesn’t spit out another useless wet fart of a device.
What GraphaneOS features do you miss in your current ROM?
Basically everything privacy focused. NobleROM is just One UI from newer devices back-ported so I have modern Android without losing everything that made the Note9 so great. There are the standard problems with banking apps and such that I’ve seen Graphene users able to get around. I’m also hoping Graphene will have an answer for the installation limitations Google is pushing on Android. I see what they’re doing as going the way of a death by a thousand cuts and further their monopoly until they’re no different from Apple.
/e/ and iode have better privacy features than GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS have great security but doesn’t offer anything special when it comes to privacy. /e/ and iode will also let you avoid new installation limitations.
Both of those are funded by the French government, a government that is open in its support for the Chat Control proposal. I have no reason whatsoever to believe either of those is secure in the slightest.
The Motorola Signature looks like a good device so its successor should be too.
Sadly, the Signature is yet another victim of ‘innovation’. I have no use for a device that is doing the exact same as everything else at that price range. I’d sooner grab the Edge 60 Stylus, despite the significantly worse CPU.
I have a Samsung S24+ and the Moto Signature is better value.
The screen has a higher brightness, smaller bezels, higher PWM frequency and much higher brightness. It also has 90W charging and a flatter speaker response with more bass and midrange. All of those are compared to my phone, not your much older Note 9.
The GrapheneOS models are coming out next year, though they say it will be top of the range phones first. Whether that includes any below the Signature I don’t know.
It sounds like those features mean a lot to you. Especially brightness, apparently. But they mean little to me. I have no use for fast charging so long as the battery has enough capacity to last between charges. Smaller bezels mean nothing when the camera leaves a massive hole in that larger screen. I already own a high quality DAP, so I don’t need top of the line audio, just something I can listen to quietly on my studio-spec headphones. And despite brightness being so precious to you that you felt compelled to name it twice, I work nights, am nocturnal and my eyes are sensitive to light. Additional brightness means nothing when I never need it above 50%. I need utility, not boardroom-approved statistical refreshes.