Moto Edge running Lineage with microG for GPS
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Fairphone4
Im jelly of people who can run GrapheneOS, I can lead others to water but can not drink...
I need an SD slot and headphone jack so I'm on a Motorola g 25. I got it a couple months ago. It's pretty good so far. I chad an LG v20 prior to that.
A Moto G7 Power with LineageOS.
I have an old Realme GT NEO 3 with the stock ROM. There was no LineageOS ROM for it when I got it but there's been one for two years now, so I may give it a try eventually.
The camera is not good but apart from that, it works. I have Google apps installed on this one and use mainly Gmail and Maps. Maps is shitty but I also use openstreetmaps on the web through Firefox. I don't have the YouTube app and watch videos in Firefox, with uBlock Origin, Sponsor Block and Video Background Play Fix. I tend to use the websites, or FOSS apps if possible through F-Droid. No weather app, I just go on the website with ads blocked. But I don't mind paying for some apps that I use if they are useful and don't have ads. Ads are the devil.
And my backups are simple, using FolderSync connecting via SSH on my headless Orange Pi.
I use a Samsung S23 with the standard Android system.
Still have an iPhone 12 mini. Will upgrade to like the iPhone 18 pro or something. I'm waiting until this stops getting software updates first.
iPhone 16 pro…
I mean work gives it to me… and I’m too cheap to buy a personal phone
Realme GT 7 Pro
I've been quite happy with it, the package price is great while the software is much less neutered than the Xiaomis I've used before. Fast processor, gargantuan battery and the fast charging up to 120W without heating up the phone much is insane.
Company buys me a pimped up iPhone every two years. I’m due for an upgrade this fall again.
Can’t be arsed to buy a separate one, would buy a GrapheneOS supported one if that didn’t involve giving money to Google
Fairphone 5 with android, I'm contemplating moving to e/os but I need to take the time you do it.
S24 FE. I hate all the recent changes Samsung has been doing but this phone should last me until 2030 at least, probably more. I'm also the only person on Lemmy who likes OneUI, and I'm OK with that now that all alternative launchers are enshittifying.
By the time I need to replace it, the market will probably be in an entirely different place and maybe even some Linux versions could be more viable.
I use Immich, bitwarden, mega, and Tuta. Which covers the backup of everything.
Fairphone 6 with e/OS
4 year old OnePlus.
It was a different time!
Currently using a samsung, looking to jump ship
Samsung. It's not US nor Chinese.
I'm using a Samsung with an android os. I wanted an android phone but couldn't get my hands on one at the time, so this was the next best option.
Xiomi. Sue me.
I use Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 4 with Nextcloud backup (self hosted).
You are lemmy
S24 Ultra. Will be my last Android with the way things are going.
Being on an iPhone for 11 years and then going to Android was a jaw dropping experience.
But now no more sideloading and Nova Launcher went to shit with ads after the owners sold (out).
The FOSS launcher Lawnchair is actually pretty great. Took some setting up, but now it does everything nova did for me.
Sideloading though, yeah I really hope that doesn't go through. Fun fact even now I can't use a local gov't because I have an accessibility service running that was 'sideloaded' (it's from Lawnchair, if you want double tap to lock you need it)
Librem 5.
Cons: Storage and RAM small. Battery so-so.
Pros: I haven't seen a single other phone I would rather own. Android and iOS are dumb as hell. Terrible OSes, in my opinion.
I want a Liberty Phone but can't justify the money. This works well enough for me. I will almost certainly be buying the L5 successor.
How does it do as a daily driver? You can do banking? Run random Android apps, etc?
Nope.
Well, I don't use any banking apps, personally. My understanding is that they don't work under Waydroid.
Other Android apps mostly work fine in Waydroid, so long as they don't need access to GPS or camera to work properly.
I removed Waydroid a while back, though, as I only needed it for one app and Waydroid took up almost 1/3 of the storage on the phone. It just wasn't worth it, and I am happier to be rid of the Android ecosystem anyways.
I should mention that the Linux phone life is NOT for everyone.
I should also mention that battery life is still not anywhere close to competitors. Camera is meh but improves with updates.
For my use cases (Phone/SMS/MMS, Lemmy, Mastodon, and a few other apps), it works totally fine and has proven to be reliable enough for almost 3 years. It gets better with age due to updates.
I had three straight Pixel phones die from random hardware failures on me in the span of less than two years, so I have high hopes for this Motorola/GrapheneOS collab.
Currently using a Razr foldable. Which has lasted longer than two of the three Pixels put together. Stock Android. Would love to put LineageOS on it instead. Currently no rom for it and I'm not a developer.
EDIT: For backups, I do it the old fashioned way. Periodic device dumps into 3 different desktop/laptop computers. Not optimal, don't have the time or budget to do better right now. Again, I'm not a developer and frankly most of my life is not digital. The parts that are digital aren't a huge deal to me if they aren't airtight secure.
As politics go, I WANT people to know that I'm for trans rights and body autonomy and that I think all republicans deserve the gulag. Please record my full name and details with my convictions on those issues and display them everywhere when I'm gone. I will NOT go down in history lumped in with the masses under "Why didn't regular people fight back? Did they actually support this?" when this regime is studied in school with the scorn and ridicule it deserves. Anyway, I don't put my name out there on purpose with that stuff but if someone links me to the causes I support because there are memes about trans people in my Google account, all the better. I wear pride in public anyway, might as well wear it in private.
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS. I don't really bother with backups besides my personal photos since there's nothing critical on my phone. But I use immich for photos hosted on my unraid server.
I do have two backup Raspberry Pis, one at my house and one at a friend's, that my photos and other critical data is backed up to daily.
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Graphene os on a pixel 6 for work nr and banking apps
Ubuntu touch on a volla Quintus for personal nr and self-flagellation
GrapheneOS on a pixel 8 pro I got second hand a few months back.
GrapheneOS on a pixel 8
iphone 8 😀
We're still working on publishing the results of the census we ran a few months ago (sample size of around 600, where most users were from our Lemmy/Piefed instances)
Here is the graph for the phone question, exact numbers pending final cleanup:
We will also be fixing the data labels to be less terrible
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GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7
How do you know???
Lineage OS on a Pixel 4.
Unihertz Jelly Star with its stock Android. Fantastic phone :)
How do you even type on that thing
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Fold 5. Battery is getting annoying, so decent odds I pick up the 8 when it drops in the summer. I miss the days when you could just pop a battery out. It's expensive but the larger screen is amazing and I'll probably never go back. I'm not married to having a Samsung foldable specifically, but the only really competitive options are banned in the US.
You like the fold? I'm due for a new phone.
I had a ZFold 4 for a good long while before switching to a Pixel with GrapheneOS (OP is right, it's a legal requirement when joining lemmy). I can share my experience.
I really loved it but I also had very specific use cases. It was great for reading long-form content on the go and much more comfortable browsing websites, mostly those where they don't have / use mobile-first design like old forums. It was also great for sharing content in person, like sharing a spreadsheet or slideshow in person became so much easier. Some edge cases were nice to have, like taking a conference call you could split screen at the crease and prop it up for a more laptop-like experience. Ultimately it did away with the tablet use case between my laptop and phone.
Downsides were definitely price, it's like an $1800 phone, probably more now. I kept it for probably 4 years and still use it occasionally so I feel I'm getting my moneys worth. Not sure how the durability is these days, used to have issues with screens cracking even though mine is going strong. They redesigned it from 5+ in a way that it folds fully flat now and should extend screen life.
It really boils down to "is the screen real estate of two phones worth paying the price of two phones?" It has all the flagship features you'd expect, so you're really buying the form factor.
I don't really have any of those edge cases, but I've never had a tablet, and this looks like a neat alternative. How is reading a book on mobile screens, these days?
Depends on the book. For stock digital graphic novels, it's much easier on the Fold. For webcomics they are usually optimized for a narrower vertical screen. Same applies to static PDFs.
Text really comes down to the viewer. Assuming it's a book format that can be reflowed, reading can be just fine. I still prefer the wider format so I'm not constantly scrolling or tapping to turn pages, probably helps with eye fatigue too but not sure how long you plan to read on your phone anyway.
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