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Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year (arstechnica.com)

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[-] Balldowern@lemmy.zip 46 points 3 days ago

So I guess my next phone will be a Chinese phone. Even if it spies on me, I'll have the freedom to install whatever I want from anywhere.

The Chinese have a golden window of opportunity. Let's hope they don't mess this up.

[-] Truscape 11 points 2 days ago

I guess if GrapheneOS finally gets spoken to by a manufacturer interested in filling this market gap, that would be awesome too.

Hell, maybe it could be a chinese manufacturer.

[-] tranquil_cassowary@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago

GrapheneOS is currently actively talking to a major Android OEM in order to help them reach the security requirements for a subset of their future devices. If that succeeds GrapheneOS will be able to run on non-Pixel devices.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Oh please let this work out

[-] tranquil_cassowary@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Timewindow 2026, perhaps 2027 for release of such devices. Talks have been going on for a few months, if it wasn't working out at all that probably should've been clear already.

[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago

I am very happy with my One Plus 13 phone. It has better hardware and was at a better price than Samsung's S25.

[-] Fijxu@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago

Samsung used to be good. I used to always buy samsung but since I can't affort a "high end" device, I go with the medium end ones, and samsung medium end ones are terrible for the price. So instead of getting a medium end samsung, you can get something better and cheaper on another brand

[-] Truscape 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Samsung always seems to have the paradigm of good hardware with shitty software, and with their recent phones they seem to manage to enshittify both.

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

So you either need to put a custom/global rom on it, get the hk version, or pay like 20% more for a global version.

[-] kalpol@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Bonus problems, AT&T in the US kicked off the international phone versions a while back. They worked fine. I have a bunch of leftover G4 international versions that they up and banned one day around 2020. The terrible US version remained allowed.