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Israeli spyware installing on your phone through play store is safe and heckin cool for google but you can't "sideload" opensource apps from fdroid on your phone that you own for your own "safety" by next year.
Yeah I am trying to find a replacement like the fairphone, or a pixel with Graphene, hell I am even thinking about getting a huawei
The whole scene feels like kind of a mess with each of them having their own problems in the last few months and it all feels a bit uncertain so I would probably just stick with a fliphone with 5G while avoiding useage of phones for much besides calls. Linux phones by furilabs looked okay to me (at least compared to pinephone and librem) and would be more preferable to me over anything related to android.
I'm probably going to start carrying 3 phones. A burner stock old Android phone for likely my phone calls and Android apps I still need from the Play Store, especially for work. A Google Pixel which I will install LineageOS and avoid GApps for other Android features I need with F-Droid (and perhaps maybe using as my regular phone instead). I'm avoiding GrapheneOS because of the terrible leadership. Then I plan on getting a Pixel 3a for postmarketOS to use whatever features I can get by on mobile Linux and wait as it develops so I can slowly switch more to it. I'm currently using a OnePlus 6T that I have had for over 5 years and currently running LineageOS. I'll probably switch it to postmarketOS, too, and just leave it home to tinker with and avoid as much damage as possible.
The reason why I am dependent on Google Pixel phones is because I need a phone that still has rugged cases built for them, like from SUPCASE. I would keep using my OnePlus 6T, but I have one rugged case left (I've broke the remaining ones), and nobody makes decent ones for older phones like this anymore. I went on eBay to buy any ones I can find, and many orders were cancelled because they were out of stock. There's essentially planned obsolescence even if you manage to make your phone still work to this day as parts stop being developed for them, and a rugged case is a need for me in order to keep my phones nice and not cracked.
Google Pixel 3a still have cases on eBay from SUPCASE, so I plan on buying multiple of them to last me a while. I've checked other rugged case brands and multiple different phones supported by postmarketOS and/or LineageOS. Essentially either a rugged case doesn't exist (99% of the phones), or for phones that do exist, they are expensive or don't match in features or support (working hardware features from postmarketOS) like the Google Pixels, or there are no more used phones in the market. The OnePlus 6T and Google Pixel 3a are probably the best phones you can get for postmarketOS/mobile Linux at this time.
I need to get my 3D printer working and start designing my own rugged cases.
I had no idea about the Graphene devs but I am not surprised based on there attitude towards other Linux phones.
I am planning on getting like a fairphone if I can. Good specs new enough to get cases for and is supported off the shelf by most Linux distros.
I was thinking Graphene because it seen by the government normally as bad since they seem to be unable to get in the phone