Talk me out of buying one.
you can do the exact same things with a budget motorola phoneit's a waste of money
>>109421584Which Motorola? Specifically something I can tinker with, a device I can unlock the bootloader and it has decent custom ROM support?
>>109421564>no removable battery>no micro sdcard slot>no headphone jackeasy
>>109421564>Dumb beta android version>Fake claims of Ai>You can’t use Local Ai on it>US spyware installed>Buy Apple>Same android operating system since 7.0>Locked contract>Worthless resell valueDon’t buy it
>>109421605moto g5
>>109421564no, gOS is awesome and you get 7 years of support
>>109421631gos doesn't support phones with removable batteries
>>109421609Please stop capitalising on green text as it offends me.>locked contract !>buy appleI have a 16e. I don't want another iPhone.>worthless resell valueRubbish. There are foolish folk on the auction sites who'll pay more than the RRP for a GrapheneOS flashed Pixel.
>>109421564You can't do better than Argos? No way theyre the most competitive Also, consider refurbished
>>109421623Think I'd rather buy a Sony XZ from 2017.
>>109421689>no removable batteryyour loss then
Just wait for the Motorola GrapheneOS phonesPixels have shit hardwaret. bought an 8a
>>109421657Surprisingly not in the UK, that's the best deal at the moment for a 256gb model, available for collection when the shop opens tomorrow morning.
>>109421699I haven't missed a removable battery since the official extended battery and bump back that I had for a Galaxy S2.
>>109421623Is the G5 a 9 year old phone?
>>109421689>2017I've just realised that I've been lurking on this shit hole for years now!
>>109421564get one in cex instead of argos you get a 5 year warranty
>>109421809yes but it still werks just fine and even has volte with custom roms
>>109421564IDK, looks like a normal mid-tier "a" phone, what are its features?By comparison you can get a folding screen phone for $300, and pocket the $200.>>109421609Local AI doesn't run at interactive speeds on a phone. Not enough memory bandwidth.
If you need Graphene, you need Graphene. Go for the newest Pixel that fits within your budget, or wait to see what the Motorola offering is going to be.
>>109421925>If you need GrapheneYou don't. You are posting on fucking 4chan.
Get a 9a instead. It’s the same thing but cheaper.
>>109421649>Please stop capitalising on green text as it offends me.what's your pronouns?
>>109421871I have a Fold 7. I want to tinker with it, not use it as a daily driver.>>109421986Not many new ones left.>>109421863Fair enough but isn't there a modern Motorola alternative?
>>109422049Cunt/Wanker
>>109422054nope, the g5 was the last to have a removable battery
>>109421564You shouldn't buy one because people might think you're straight =(
>>109421608>No memes from the 1980'sTime to retire gramps
>>109422652sd card is good though
>>109422667I run GrapheneOS and connect to my Nextcloud server. I have all the space I need. Roms for RetroArch, videos, music... What do you "need" and SD card for?
>>109422714Cheap storage upgrades
>>109422714music library>Nextcloud serverdo you rent a vps for that or host it at home?
>>109422652shalom
>>109422797Home hosted. Picked up a Dell Opti 7050 off ebay for $120.
>>109421564if you get one put a flat girl as your wallpaper because flat is supreme
>>109422797Let me clarify. I labeled the machine "Nextcloud" since I do run it. Music is Jellyfin via Finamp.My bad for the confusion
>>109421564Buy refurbished 17e with new battery.Thank me later.
In canada it's a $120 phone but your phone plan will be over $500 per year ($40-50), and you are locked into 2 years.So buying a $1000 phone is a no-brainer, it's a fraction of the cost of being raped by the phone plan!Instead you can just buy a shitphone, maybe a refurb samsung a17 for $100, and use a cheap mobile provider, in canada that would be "fizz" which is $20 per month but with only 1gb of data.You can go even further, if you don't go outside, you could use a VoIP provider instead like voip.ms, and have a phone number for $1 a month. The problem is that you probably can't make a new google account or apple account with a VoIP number, because this is exactly how scammers get affordable phone numbers. You need the "premium" phone number.
No Lineages for it. Do not buy.
pay 1200 google still spy on you. At least iphone pretends not to
>>109421564https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-10a-mandatory-battery-health-assistance-3639386/>has the same defective batteries as the 4a/6a/7a>instead of an actual fix, you'll get your capacity drastically reduced beginning at just 200 cycles (less of a year of use)>it'll still eventually become a spicy pillow anyways because it's been proved time and time again this band-aid fix doesn't really do anything besides delaying the inevitableyou gotta be extremely retarded to even consider spending such money on a phone that is known to become ewaste in less than a couple of years unless you spend a fuckton of money replacing the battery on it yearlyit's also baffling nobody has mentioned this in 40 replies already, everyone just forgets about this bullshit for some reason, seems the jewgle plan worked as every retard here will still buy known defective devices no matter what.
>>109421564You are retarded enough to consider a Google phone, so go ahead and do it, dumb goyim
