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Anybody here here did research on best available phones for privacy?

Privacy oriented phones seems to be the least developed area in the privacy-oriented tech world. Am I wrong?

I understand that how private a phone is depends on several factors (not just the HW, OS and installed apps but also using a sim card, cell towers.. ) and the more things you want to use your phone for, the more impossible true phone-related privacy becomes but is anybody even *really* trying?
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nobody 2y ago

Pixel with Graphene is as good as you're going to get. Which is pretty good in my experience.

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Roger that 2y ago

I have one. My only complaint is two months or so ago they my battery started to last much less. Usually it lasted 1.5 days. Now it doesn't last even one full day.

Using pixel 5a

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BlueOwl 2y ago

Why would anyone concerned about privacy use a Google phone?? It's not just the OS that matters, it's the device, too, right? Am I missing something?

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nobody 2y ago

It's not a Google phone. Baseband and OS get rewritten with de-googled FOSS software. Graphene on a Pixel is THE way to get privacy on a mobile right now.

If your threat model includes not trusting the HW modems, CPUs, RAM then I'm sorry... you're fucked buddy.

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Luxferre 1y ago

If Graphene rewrites the baseband, does it allow to edit IMEIs?