I’m tired of collecting phones, and frankly I’m a little money strapped and kind of want to coast by on older phones for a while. But I’m wanting to de-google as much as possible.
Of the last few phones I’ve had, all are working well. Most have been able to be kept relatively up to date with LineageOS, and a couple have /e/os/ versions available for them (one official, one community)
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Essential Phone (Community Build e/os/…not sure if still being updated or not though.)
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Moto One Hyper (No e/os/ build. Sadly not a popular enough phone)
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Moto One 5G Ace (Has an e/os/ build. Currently being used as a DIY game emulator on LineageOS)
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Motorola Edge 2023 (Current Phone. No e/os/ build. It’s essentially a canadian variant of the Motorola Edge 40 Neo…which are the only two newest phones to use the Dimensity 7030 chip, making it incompatible with the regular Edge 40 or 40 Pro e/os/ builds.
I’m using /e/os/ on my Essential phone (though not daily driver) to get a feel for the software and the Murena app/account. I’m willing to give up my game emulator to put it on the newer phone if I like it (though it would suck to lose my FFVII and Chrono Trigger playthroughs)
Ideally my Edge 2023 would have a build. But I’m not going to expect a chipset used by only two phones total to garner that much development focus (and rightly so)
Anyone have more long term experience with /e/os/ and Graphene and tell me what Graphene has stronger?
Thanks
e/OS also promises advanced location protection by spoofing a false geolocation. Reported to Murena that this is somehow bypassed by Here We Go maps but there seems no interest in fixing the issue.
Also, when they anounced last year they would add ChatGPT integration for their cloud services my complaint to them was answered with “well you don’t have to use it”
Murena is obviously not serious about privacy
Finally! Thank you! Everytime I say anything negative about Murena, I get a wave of folks saying ‘nuh-uh!’ without any evidence to refute.