Google needs to get their shit together and put an actually competitive chip in their phones. I’m not buying a late cycle phone with a tensor processor that can’t even match the current snapdragon or A-series.
But at least this time it secures the phone against cellebrite & other hacking tools, right? …right?
(for those unaware: there are tools built by cellebrite and other companies that can dump the internal storage of your phone and decrypt its contents without your consent. they’re in use by most police in the US at least, probably other countries as well and definitely airports. They can hack just about every single phone, except for maybe the newest iphone with a really long pin and advanced protection enabled, and recent google pixels with grapheneos.)
What’s the proof ?
Cellebrite was used to crack the first Trump shooter’s phone. At the time, they openly talked about the latest iPhone being uncrackable and still in the “In Research” phase. So if the shooter had one, they’d have been screwed.
Era of tinkering, customization for better privacy ,performance is end,each day there less and less phone vendors which let to unlock bootladers,now we left with oneplus,google pixel and xiaomi with 9 circles of hell to unlock it
Also Sony, their open device program is pretty sweet.
Just waiting for the pain to be enough to switch to Linux on a phone.
Main drawbacks right now:
- I have one health-related (open source) app that I NEED to work flawlessly
- Navigating the various UIs seems incredibly awkward and inconsistent
Have you checked SailfishOS? Their Android-bridge is pretty decent, it might work well. If you tell me the app name, I can check whether it works or not.
Motorola is pretty solid from a bootloader unlock perspective. It is dead simple and some devices support relocking with custom keys.
Also mine had a headphone jack before I STUPIDLY traded for a fucking Samsung. Never again.
Anything made in the last few Yeats doesn’t have a headphone jack. (Motorola is no exception)
