My phone’s just bitten the dust and now I need to look for a new one again.
Thought I’d test the waters and see what kinds of phones people on here are using nowadays and what for, what features set them apart if any etc
Bonus points if anyone’s managed to get mainline linux running on them either via KVM or bare metal
Edit: Thanks for everyone who talked about their choices of phone, I am now writing this on a fairphone 4 and am quite happy with it so far.
I use a Fairphone 4 running Murena’s e/os. The experience has been pretty good so far. I haven’t needed to repair the phone yet but it’s nice to know I have the option. The os doesn’t have any quirks I can’t live with. I like their app store, it gives every app a privacy score based on what logging it has and permissions it uses.
Bought myself a Pixel 6 used a while back. Been very happy with it
I hear a lot of good things about the older pixels, but they only have a couple years of security updates left and a couple months of android updates so it doesn’t feel like a smart decision to buy them now
They don’t have less security updates than other brands. Plus you can always install a custom ROM to keep getting updates afterwards.
I use a Gigaset GS5 from Germany. Runs stock android has USBC, 3.5m audio jack, replaceable battery, dual Sim cards, and a SD card slot. Yea, 3 card slots. not those crappy dual SD/Sim card slots.
Pixel 8 Pro. I’m satisfied of it. The first thing I did was unlocking and the second rooting.
Pixel 7. It’s fine.
