<div dir="ltr">A Google Pixel (I have the 3 XL) will give you the most "untainted by bloatware" version of Android - plus regular updates. Can't speak to rooting it. I continue to be impressed by the camera - it's flat out amazing. <div><br></div><div>But no removable memory (automagically uploads to your google account online) and there are times I wish it was better as an actual phone - mostly what I want to call someone. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:34 AM Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>My experience is mixed:</div><div>Nexus 4</div><div>Google being them dropped it with a buggy OS 7.x that to this day is known to sometimes work and sometimes not install right</div><div>LineageOS 15 has a huge bug</div><div>On the other hand it does have a bunch of ROMs to pick from some neet apps etc.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 10:18 AM Carl Tollander <<a href="mailto:carl@plektyx.com" target="_blank">carl@plektyx.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Still happy with my Pixel 1 and Google Fi .<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">C</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 09:53 Gary Schiltz <<a href="mailto:gary@naturesvisualarts.com" target="_blank">gary@naturesvisualarts.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Looking for advice on escaping the gravitational well that is the Apple iOS ecosystem before I reach the event horizon. Hope it isn't too late already. The hard part seems to be choosing a device. With so many years of having barely any choice (other than how much money to shovel into the furnace), I'm now drowning in choices. HELP! :-)<div><br></div><div>The hacker/tinkerer part of me wants something that I can install a custom OS on, i.e. LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod). Any thoughts from that crowd? The "just want something that works" part of me is looking for something that us likely to keep working as apps are updated, and have "officially supported" OS updates. I'd appreciate thoughts from anyone in that camp as well.</div></div>
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