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What do you think is the difference and some pros/cons of a fairphone with e/OS vs. an unlocked pixel with grapheneOS? (leminal.space)
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Looking at options to degoogle etc., and these look like two valid options. I mainly use a phone for maps and authenticator, and the occasional text or call.

Also, any other good options or considerations I am missing?

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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I have experienced both first hand.

Pixels are much higher quality / 'premium feeling' devices, but not nearly as ethically sound or repairable as Fairphones (duh). I don't know about the latest generation, but I was not impressed at all with their FP5.

GrapheneOS is amazing if you are willing to spend some time reading into its features and why they matter. Pretty much everything requiring Play Services is just working. /e/OS also has strong privacy features, but to my knowledge they offer less frequent updates, less involved hardening and MicroG rather than sanboxed Play Services.

MicroG (in the past at least) was much less reliable than sanboxed Play, as the latter even allows for device integrity checks to pass. And I mean genuinely pass, not 'with hacks and workarounds kinda pass'. You're only in trouble if you stumble across one of the few apps that use the v2 Integrity API, because that works with Google certified devices only.

Edit: As for /e/OS upsides: Slightly nicer looking, with a slightly nicer featureset out of the box, including a cemare app that crashes phones to this day.