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If I buy the best that either company has to offer (Pixel 8 pro or S23 Ultra)

Which one, in your opinion, would be the best Android experience and why? Would love to know your thoughts.

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[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get a Pixel, install GrapheneOS.

[–] mihies@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Do apps requiring locked phones (Netflix, baking etc.) work?

[–] random65837@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yes, because Graphene is a real OS and maintains secure boot. Your bootloader remains locked.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netflix you just can't get from Google Play, but people report having no problem installing from Aurora (basically a Google Play store frontend).

I'm not sure how it works on Graphene as I personally just rooted my phone but didn't take the plunge to Graphene, but there is a list of compatible banking apps here: https://privsec.dev/banking

[–] btobolaski@threads.ruin.io 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just installed Netflix directly from Google play, maybe it has changed 🤷‍♂️

[–] Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It has changed yupyup. Used to be that you couldn't do this, because play store and services wouldn't run on the OS. Now you can.

[–] puppy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Check out Louis Rossmann's video on it. According to him banking apps and Google services work just fine.

[–] Lime66@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

*some banking apps

[–] root@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Not too sure how up-to-date or accurate this is, but I happened to come across this a few weeks ago and am sharing it again.

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Most do work, only apps that have stupid arbitrary Google SafetyNet requirements might have problems. It's entirely the fault of Google though.