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My life with two phones was short-lived. It was not practical. I decided to go all in with #GrapheneOS and #Pixel 6a. I'll be giving the Samsung Galaxy S22 to someone else in the family and using the Pixel 6a for the next half of the year. If it's okay, I'll get a Pixel 10 and install GrapheneOS on it. If not, I'll humbly go back to Samsung and get the S25.
BTW it is interesting to find that I can live with a used phone for €120.
@sesivany 1. Why 2 phones in the first place?
2. And why upgrade if you are fine with the 6a?
I'm still on Pixel 6 Pro and am really dreading the day I'll have to replace it. Hesitating to give any US company any money, let alone one of the Big Tech ones. If only there was a Linux-based option with a decent camera.
@ondra 1) because S22 cannot run GrapheneOS, so I had to get a Pixel to try it out and of course, I couldn't just ditch the previous phone when I had no idea if I could live with GOS as an OS for my only phone.
2) I'm fine with it short-term, but it only has 128 GB of storage which I'm sure will run out of in a few months. Other things such as wireless charging or higher frame rates would be welcome, too, but not too crucial.
I'm not happy about giving money to Google, but I'd rather give them my money for the device (Pixel+GOS) than giving them my data (another OEM partner's phone+Google Android).
@sesivany That's why I'd like to skip AOSP altogether. Especially when Graphene already talks about a desktop version. Mobile apps on desktop isn't the future of convergence I want.
I'm deliberately avoiding mobile-app-only services and am not watching movies or gaming on a phone. And I need just a little space for some offline data. So a Pixel-level camera on any Linux phone would probably be all I need.
Wireless charging wastes about half of energy, BTW. Also overheats my 6 Pro. :)
@ondra I've got OnePlus 6 with PostmarketOS and while I like the OS, it's just too limiting for me. A secure Android device that is not a Google data miner is fine by me.
I know that wireless charging wastes energy, but the phone's annual consumption is roughly 0.03% of our top-roof solar system. I can live with it. Also my wireless charger has a cooling system, so no overheating problem.