Aren’t these things $1400 or some crazy price?
- Not Linux
- No headphone Jack
- No SDCard
- might as well be a spider in the back
- most likely not user serviceable
- Corpo-ahh looking device
- possibly inaccessibly priced
- FEELS like undesirable government officials will be the ones to get these devices
Nothing to see here. Just a bunch of noise.
Only good thing is, graphene no longer locked to google devices.
over $1k
Golly! Look at that Epstein Class price tag! And not even an audio jack to show for it! Who knows what else it’s lacking.
GrapheneOS isn’t even mentioned on the product page, strange.
It won’t come with it
What makes you say that?
I read somewhere that they’re not planning on selling it with GOS, you’d still need to install it yourself
I think people going for this hardware + OS are more of a function over form crowd.
No card slot… Booooo !
I really loved their Droid 1. Phone jack, sd card slot, physical keyboard. It was one of my best phones.
Have you read what Graphene Phone stands for? What their goal is?
Apparently not. Only been using it for 3 years.
If I only keep unimportant stuff on the sd card, can you explain what the problem is?
Apparently it is to use cloud services 😉 pixel phone storage was incredibly small. At least this phone has up to 512GB internal storage allegedly. For a ridicous price I assume.
What kind of idiot stores more than 50 gigabytes of important data on their phone?
You sound like you want a dumb phone instead of a smartphone…
What? What are you talking about?
Expandable storage is for photos, videos, music, books, etc… not for “important data.” Pixels made their storage tiny specifically to push users to use Google Drive, Google Photos (pushing the “clean your device” store everything in the cloud BS), YouTube Music, etc…
A vast majority of people also use their phone as an MP3 player and camera and apps, not just a chat device. My music library is not crazy and would not fit on a pixel together with my photos/videos, for example.
They used to break all the time randomly. Are new sd cards more durable?
I have had a sandisk microSD in my last 2 phones for 7 years in total and my girlfriend has had hers for 8.
Absolutely no problems with the SD cards (besides Spotify being a piece of shit app)
This is awesome; first non-google phone supported. It us a bit on the expensive side for me, but a good step in the right direction.
Hopefully they will be able to get Motorola/Qualcomm to have the required security features on a lower end SoC and hence phone.
Over $1000 but no headphone jack?? It’s such a basic request for a privacy based phone
Those cameras are stupid, 200MP is utter nonsense, no SD card slot is insane… I wish Graphene would pick a better phone
200 MP is craaazy high (as a layman). that’s like, 10k × 20k screen resolution, right?
also i’m torn about SD cards. they sound good but also are a security hazard. anybody can pull them out and read them, right? for a portable device, i really doubt that that’s good-enough.
Graphene picked an OEM who were willing to work with them and a device with the right CPU to support the hardware security features.
This was what was available.
Does anyone know if it has a headphone jack? It seems dumb to brag about having B&O work on the audio if not, but I am still thinking it won’t which will kill any interest in it.
Edit: I confirmed it does not have one. total junk
This is why I keep a pixel 3.
Have you tried a USB C to headphone adapter? They’re quite small and never have to leave your headphones. And you could set the phone on a wireless charger to charge and listen simultaneously. Would that be an option for you?
Oh. I see someone else asked this. Never mind.
What a lot of whining over a stupid plug. You guys have absolutely no idea what it’s like to own a graphene phone.
Sorry I can’t hear you over how the bluetooth driver compressed your whining to 8kbps.
I wish you a happy tinnitus
No jack? Send it back!!
I strongly agree
Minority of a minority of a minority.
Them and the “make it smaller crowd” too. A very small, very loud minority that fails to actually show up when such a product is released.
sure, like those supporting Palestine, doesn’t make them wrong. I hate not having a headphone jack, my Etymotic ear buds are 20 years old and still work superbly.
I know they already said to expect flagships, but it’s still very disappointing to me.
Personally, I’m just never going to buy a phone with something like the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, a flagship among flagships.
What are you supposed to do with a beast like that? It’s just a lot of money wasted, because nothing you’ll ever use a smartphone for requires even 50% of that performance.
I hope some cheaper, weaker options will be supported by Graphene too.
