I have no recommendations for versions. Depends in your case.

Although I’ll mention that some people don’t like that Pixel by default doesn’t include the bottom menu on the screen, and uses other swiping features on the screen to do the same thing.

However in your system settings you can change the UI to gave the navigation menu at the bottom of the screen similar to Samsung.

Interesting. I find keeping my screen on, keeping it plugged in, and not putting battery saver can heat up my phone some.

People in this thread mentions setting the phone to only charge to 80%, it will hell extend battery life.

Settings -> Battery -> Charging Optimization

My battery is lasting about 30% + longer with GrapheneOS. Plus my phone heats up less.

I got an extra 30% battery life after switching to GrapheneOS. I’m guessing whatever is saving my battery, would also bring down the load on the system.

I did notice my phone heats up much less after switching to GrapheneOS.

How to use Debit or e-transfer to pay for Steam games?

How well do these connect to Canadian cell phone towers?

My posts and comments were being censored too. Nothing related to Musk nor politics. Good thing I switched over. This is my new home.