• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    I very seriously doubt this happens, but it would be incredibly amazing if it was the Moto G line of devices. Absolute premium specs are not needed to get a great experience on operating systems that don’t have Google spy services.

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      10 hours ago

      The actual functional difference between a cheap “value” phone and a premium “flagship” phone has never been smaller than it is today. There was a time when you actually got different capabilities, actual real-world performance improvements, and longer battery life. Now the cheap phones sometimes offer BETTER features (notably, battery life) because they aren’t running as much stupid bullshit that you don’t want.

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      13 hours ago

      When GOS first announced this several months ago, they also announced it would be a flagship chipset. Plus Motorola will be losing a lot of money by opting out of data mining. So I expect it will be expensive.

      Nice to have options but I expect I’ll be sticking to Pixels.

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah, I was talking with somebody about it, and they think it will be a device that will cost something like 3.3 Monero. That’s a lot more than I want to spend considering I can get a pixel A series for something like 1.5 Monero, or if I don’t want to go with graphene, I can get the Motorola Moto G 2024 and put Lineage OS on it for like 0.4 Monero.

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    15 hours ago

    Anyone know why graphene needs such high specs? It doesn’t make sense to me that a less bloated OS would need better specs.

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      10 hours ago

      It’s specifically the ability to relock the bootloader with custom software. Pixels are the only phones that can do it.

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      14 hours ago

      As far as I understand, GrapheneOS’s requirements focus on security features, not device speed.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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      14 hours ago

      Doesn’t seems to mention spec, the announcement article did mention a lot of security and it’s a joint venture to seek out better security for your security of your secure phone.