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Yep, Pixel is the best phone to get the most Google free experience for those that seek it.
Depends on your usecase and your country of living. Why do I say so? I will name my 2 points:
Lack of sd card. Yes I need my sd card, I don't want to upload stuff online on a 400kbps connection or download on a 16mbps connection. It's not a good experience.
Not officially sold in my country, only available rarelly in resellers for 200+ euro more than normally.
Pixel has a Trusted Protection Module like computers with secure boot. No phone hardware in existence is documented at the hardware level. This is how planned obsolescence is created and why you have to buy a new phone every few years.
With a TPM chip it becomes possible to run signed and secured code on top of untrusted hardware and underlying software. Without this, your security is very limited in practice. Graphene OS is verifiably secure and only runs what you put on it.
The entire Android system is designed for people to use when they have no clue how to secure a device themselves and when they are far too incompetent to learn. The way this is done is to delegate a lot of permissions to app developers. This gives a lot of freedom to the apps you run. They can exploit the hell out of you within their little sandbox of vague permissions. Graphene does everything possible to limit what is happening in the background and the exploitations. It is default privacy.
I do not purchase phones as hardware any more. I don't care what is sold by any of the exploitation clowns. I shop for my ROM and buy a device that is well supported by that project. I've owned several Graphene OS devices and am happy with them. I had a Lineage device I liked too awhile back.
That's all fine and dandy, but when it outright doesn't have features you wan't, and costs in most cases double your wage it just doesn't pay off.
What does this have to do with what they said?
It is showing a different paradigm of thought. Valuing a few IO options to be exploited makes far less sense to some people. The OP is about "doesn't force ads on me." Hardware centric thought is a marketing leverage used to force ads on people. Buying for the ROM is the best way to protect your privacy and avoid the ads.
Lineage OS is not a secure ROM, as a matter of fact the way it is hacked makes it a security nightmare, but you can breath new life to old devices and install adblockers that need root and set other features that allows you to avoid ads and Google, which is nice.
Well, for the use-case described ("most google free"), Pixel is it.
Now, if you wanna lay down some other requirements, then its a different use-case.
Fairphone is also quite hackable. Hard to get in the US, only distributor is Murena. In Europe they're pretty easy to find from what I hear. Sd exists but you need to power cycle the phone to access it so maybe not your best bet. Still, if I need to transfer stuff quickly USBC is really fast.
Too bad I live in the tech shithole called croatia where fairphones are even rarer then pixel's here.
I connect my Pixel 8 to my PC with a USB a to USB c cable. Plenty fast.
I bought it from google, off their website. On sale.
Thats nice, but google doesn't sell them here like I said, we only have them on resellers sometimes. For example there is pixel 6 pro here sold for 600+ euro on a reseller, while there is no other pixel available rn in the country at all.
That's true, but I was just talking about the best phone to get for a Google free experience. Stuff like pricing, specific features, or availability is another matter. Like it someone asks what is the best consumer available GPU VR gaming to get people would say 4090. Since unless they ask about price and availability they are just asking about hardware.
And this person already has a Pixel. So availability or price isn't an issue for them.
I live in Canada, and the Pixel non-pro phones seem to sell at a normal price for me (I still don't want to overspend on a pro model) I'm also really in the Google ecosystem right now, so I can't leave and install custom systems and disable Play Services. I've also never heard of the Pixel's being out of stock here.