| GrapheneOS is OK. The keyboard kind of sucks. Assuming you are unwilling to use google location services, GPS is flaky. As a consequence, Camera image location tagging is flaky. Most apps that use map views are broken. (Third party map apps like Here WeGo and Organic Maps and are generally fine, oddly enough.) Backup is non-existent. (There is a thing. It does not work.) Unless you want to sync documents through google or some other untrustworthy third party, there aren't any competitive "keep a text document synced between N devices" programs. (Standard Notes is the closest on this front.) Phone calls and notifications work. Google Camera can be coerced into working (but geotags are iffy). Google services that normally support anonymous users (especially Meet) aggressively detect android and refuse to work if you are not logged in. Battery life is OK (as advertised) if you install google services in a sandbox. Stellar without them. The pixel wireless fast charger has settings that cannot be changed through graphene. The charger setting app requires kernel level permissions for some reason. Bluetooth support is the best I've seen. No kernel panics, or strange battery drains, in my experience. Always on VPN seems to work. Performance is good. My next phone will not be an android. The tire fire caused by not allowing google location services is the main reason. App ecosystem is number two. Lack of working backup is three. The system keyboard is number four. The over processed aesthetic of the camera is number 5 (this last one comes down to taste). Edit: I shouldn't have said app ecosystem. I meant the lack of non-privacy-invading apps that provide functionality that should be built in: Open PDF/docx/etc, scan + OCR to PDF from camera, print without granting randos permission to send documents to third parties, note sync, photo search, health data, etc... Hope this helps! |
You can also change to use Google's geolocation if you like, cf. https://grapheneos.org/usage