Graphene is very attractive, the two things that prevent me from going are a) using your phone as a credit card, I'm too attached to that now. b) work profile does not work with rooted phones

I want to break free - Queen :)

Lyrics https://genius.com/Queen-i-want-to-break-free-lyrics

Let’s just say, it took a while for the Stingray to get in while moving at 70mph. But it got in when it’s 0mph

Is there a great phone with high end specs this runs on?

Currently have an iPhone 16 pro, and probably my next phone will be something like this.

I need to be able to share photos easily with my wife, typically I’ve been using airdrop.

This is so well-written with obvious care! Answers so much of what I've been wanting to know, as someone who's thinking about taking this plunge.

I've been using GOS for 3years give or take on a Pixel 7 PRO. Yes, GOS also stops you from buying new phone every year and personally, I am hopping Pixel 10 PRO is worth the upgrade, doubt it.

In Australia, everything works, from banking to gov services, they do not block or have limited function. CommBank App supports NFC payment via its app for example.

Dual profiles is silly and utterly unnecessary.

List of my open-source applications:

- Aurora Store: Should be avoided, it like F-Droid have broken security in place. You have a high risk of installing crappy on your phone via those stores. That is why I still use Google Play and download apk once here in there from GitHub project.

- Organic Maps: Dead project, a lot of things have happened and that is why CoMaps was created/forked. It is a beautiful and mega lightweight offline GPS map with tons of features.

CoMaps replaced Earth Magic that got completely destroyed to greedy, and Sygic which I have an old lifetime premium license which now is somewhat limited unless you pay for premium plus :)

OP didn't mentioned but GOS + Android Auto works like a dream wirelessly, GOS provided is Google-free dependency version and it just works.

I had to replace my old phone a few months back and I went with a used Pixel 8 pro from Backmarket specifically so I could try GrapheneOS. I'll never go back if I can help it. I love this OS.

It's a sign of how far we've come that this article says "Break Free from Google and Apple", not "Break Free from Google, Apple and Microsoft".

They should get the same level of financing (donations) as Tor project at least. Some big organization like Open Technology Fund or NLnet should give them yearly grants.