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What is the fascination with degoogling?
Just get a pixel and install graphene on it. You can choose to install sandboxed Google play or not. You can also install it in a guest profile if you need it for things like banking apps and stuff.
Or just use aurora in your main profile
Your literally doing the same thing with Graphene. Its a degoogled os system (if you choose it to be that way) same with all of these other OS systems available
Plus, not only those phones are not repairable with the lack of an SD card, but long term support for those phones are heavily questionable now since Google is working on locking out Graphene users. Along with that Im not interested in buying one
Pixel has better US band support. All the open phones simultaneously never have US or that entire hemisphere’s band support for some terrible reason.
Pixel has all the US 4G and 5G bands. Ironic, although Pixel 9 was likely the last to have such freedoms.
Cause we got a crazy list of blacklisted phones that these mobile providers refuse to support to decrease competition and diversity. Anything google is heavily pushed in the US market, especially in the workplace and schools. I get the 4g/5g but im more worried about their privacy issues than the bands.
Even beyond that, most non-US phones don’t support western hemisphere bands. The EU makes some fantastic handsets, but they use modems that limit function on the other side of the pond.
So it is purely a function of “won’t connect”.
Although, to your privacy point, perhaps not getting signal is actually the bold move that wins.
Then suffer I guess. Phone is for phoning. Get usbc SD card reader?