I’d love to see this come to fruition. I’ve wanted Graphene since I first heard about it but refuse to pay the Google tax for admission and live with all the restrictions a Google device comes with
By “Google tax” I mean having to buy one of their devices and the “restrictions” I’m referring to are the lack of headphone jack and micro SD card slot. They may mean nothing to you or others but they’re both bare minimum requirements for myself and others. For as long as they aren’t available on Pixel devices, I will never consider a Pixel.
I also hate the ass-backwards hole punch camera but that seems to be even more of a losing battle than the other common sense features I mentioned.
There are some scattered among the budget-mid tier of devices. In the high end market I think there’s only Sony that still bother. I’m pretty sure there’s another but I can’t currently think who. Asus did for a while but they slowly gave in to all the bullshittery of the market. They still got 3.5mm, to my knowledge though.
And a few non-pixel devices, though it’s incredibly short list. Expansion was to start last fall, afaik.
I’d love to see this come to fruition. I’ve wanted Graphene since I first heard about it but refuse to pay the Google tax for admission and live with all the restrictions a Google device comes with
Google tax is a definite pain in the ass, but with graphene those restrictions no longer apply
By “Google tax” I mean having to buy one of their devices and the “restrictions” I’m referring to are the lack of headphone jack and micro SD card slot. They may mean nothing to you or others but they’re both bare minimum requirements for myself and others. For as long as they aren’t available on Pixel devices, I will never consider a Pixel.
I also hate the ass-backwards hole punch camera but that seems to be even more of a losing battle than the other common sense features I mentioned.
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There are some scattered among the budget-mid tier of devices. In the high end market I think there’s only Sony that still bother. I’m pretty sure there’s another but I can’t currently think who. Asus did for a while but they slowly gave in to all the bullshittery of the market. They still got 3.5mm, to my knowledge though.