Today, our hearts are undoubtedly heavy and mixed with emotion. As part of the proactive global strategy adjustment, OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America.
Today, our hearts are undoubtedly heavy and mixed with emotion. As part of the proactive global strategy adjustment, OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America.
Brand has been dead to me for a while. Used to be hacker friendly, but now why should I care.
So what do you guys gonna use? Everyday less and less viable options
Fairphone.
Not available in NA.
It is, has been for almost 2 years. I’ve had mine in the US since Oct 2024.
It’s not compatible with some NA networks, but it is available for use with providers that it is compatible with.
Hey I like it but 6.3 inch is small. Can they do 6.7- 6.8 inch? I can pay 2x that for modern stuff
Graphene OS
Yeah but I don’t want to buy Google devices. I would rather lineageos if it comes to that
Buy 2nd hand.
Google wont see your dime but you reap the benefits.
That’s such flawed logic. You’re still promoting the purchase and use of Google devices. If there’s a thriving secondhand market, more people can sell them and buy flagships.
Promote purchase?
How? You never gave google the money
Use of google device?
If you promote the logo while using? Maybe.
Use a case or cover it with something like a vinyl skin. All phones look almost the same now anyway.
Thriving second hand market.
Yes. I can agree buuuut just buy the model from 2 years ago (assuming a new model every year) for >50% off, swap the battery and your somewhat good with an acceptable phone.
They don’t hold the value as an iphone so this isnt too far off.
But if you buy the previous model right after the launch of a new one for 20-25% off then yes, you are fueling the used-market prices.
Example:
The canon 90d was selling with a kit lense for about 900-1000€ in a very good condition.
I filtered sales on ebay and made myself clear to buy it for 100€ or less.
A few weeks later I scored the sale for 800€ with 2 batteries and the whole packaging. Body was also only lightly used and a bit of dust specks inside the lense.
You can make good deals if you want to. Mindlessly consuming will result in what you describe.
Personally I would swap the battery in my phone if the storage wasnt a bit small for me.
And if I get myself a 256gb model next time I might have enough for the next time my battery has only 80% leftover capacity and I will attempt the swap instead.
I will also avoid getting a Samsung (bloatware), OnePlus (exited EU market. Had bad experiences with their OS flavor), Sony (tempting but way too expensive) and Apple (Is on my blacklist for the walled garden).
Googles phone are still affordable enough and has acceptable photography quality on par with Samsung, Sony and Apple.
So what else can you recommend me?
I need solid battery life (doing daily gps tracking with gpslogger and dawarich) Able to automate tasks (I found Tasker and probably can never life without it anymore :p)
Able to shoot photos (acceptable for a photo book if my DSLR isnt handy)
256GB
Budget is around 1000€ or less. Prefer to keep it around 800€ or less. Doesnt need to be cutting edge.
No need for headphone jack. Am fine with my BT headsets.
I’ve always said do the best you can to move away from big tech, this person saying:
If we’re down to worrying about the health of the secondhand market I think we’d be in an amazing place, but we’re not, every little bit helps and I think grabbing a second hand phone and installing graphene on it is a great idea
I’ve also heard they’re teaming up with Motorola:
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/03/02/motorola-partners-with-grapheneos-for-future-phones/5160849
Not necessarily true. We don’t know what that person selling Google phone is buying - they might just buy another Google phone and I just funded it.
Also I don’t trust Google to not put some hardware exploit into hardware
Doesnt matter. The seller would buy the new shiny thing anyway.
Different issue i can’t address.
Hopefully one of these weeks Motorola will release their “Shipped with Graphene” devices, but that hasn’t yet happened.
The rumor I heard around the internet is that the Motorola will have all of the security features Graphene is asking for (and Motorola gets to benefit from both the Graphene nerd sales and the improved security, Google does it in their Pixel line for some reason so there’s got to be perks for Googly Android) and an unlocked bootloader so you can install Graphene, but it won’t be shipped with it.
Huh. Maybe I misunderstood. Guess time will tell.
A seven year old iPhone I got very cheap.
Eh. I hate ios about as much as Google with new changes.
I think I would rather just buy a Chinese rom phone and switch mobile networks.
Sideloading is so easy on ios now though
Outside the USA, perhaps
At least with Apple I know I don’t own shit, not the device or the data.
The phone I already have, for the next 5+ years (it’s 5 years old now).
i have two oneplus 6 phones right now, and two more that are broken. One working one has android, the other will get lineageos. when lineage is stable might migrate the android one to nixos. Nixos is pretty obscure but it helps to have people banging on distros and filing bugs.
How did they break?
I bought one used and it had a messed up USB port, which became unusable over time. The other got bricked after a LineageOS update. Bootloader inaccessible. I tried taking it apart to get the usb port out of it for the other phone but botched the job, which is incredibly delicate considering the back of the phone is glass. Turns out you can access the bootloader if you wait until the battery goes completely to zero. So I could probably get that phone going again if I don’t care that it doesn’t have a back anymore.