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ī¸Thinking my next phone may be a Samsung. Had one before, was good. Non US. South Korea has decent relations with Canada. Good hardware. Popular models, so should continue to have decent options for rooting and installing a de-bloated OS.
My phone needs are pretty typical.
Fire away on your takes.
ikeacurtains@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca I really dislike the Samsung interface, and looking at lineageos, it seems any device you choose (limited options, be sure to check your chosen OS for which phones are supported before you buy one) will not support IMS functions (VoLTE, VoWiFi, VoNR, etc) nor will it support device integrity so things like your banking app or wallet may not work if you install a 3rd party OS. Unless you're debloating via ADB?
David Crispin@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca I've had Samsung's since the original ace 2. Always like them. Had a s6 a while back too. Have a Motorola now and I hate the android interface especially the notifications dropdown.
Patrick@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca I've been a Pixel person forever, because Pixel would save my photos for free forever and that was nice. But it turns out they don't do that past Pixel 5 anymore, so it's probably time to move away from the Pixel forever and ever.
I will be paying attention to this.
Non US phone is not something I had to think about before but I guess that's my new reality too.
John Francis đ¨đĻđĻĢđđĒâŦī¸@PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social I have a Pixel now, but am degoogling.
My Pixel does not get free photos storage. My photos need to sync into my own storage, which then gets an encrypted backup to a generic and easily replaceable cloud storage provider.
Mike Johnston@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca @PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social I use an app called foldersync on my Samsung. It backs up folders to my own NAS as long as Wi-Fi is on and it's plugged in overnight. You can use other upload points but the feature I love is I can turn off delete sync so if I delete a big video file just simply because I'm running out of space it's still backed up where I want to keep it long term.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite