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Ironic since you have to buy a Google phone to use that OS.

No wonder, as they’re the only phones left (to my knowledge) that don’t demand half your soul just to fucking own your own phone. I was so damn fed with all the hurdles samsung & co throw in your way, just so you can’t even root your damn phone.

Who would buy a flagship gaming-pc without the admin-pwd and without being allowed to change the os? Noone. Except maybe pure gaming-kiddos.

I hate google with all my heart (since they ditched the “don’t be evil” - slogan), but what else to buy? Seriously asking… Which other phones allows that AND has at least a decent camera and an oled?

No wonder, as they’re the only phones left (to my knowledge) that don’t demand half your soul just to fucking own your own phone.

Literally who outside of samsung and Huawei? I guess xiaomi is a bit annoying with the wait time but pretty much all other phones are dead simple.

Oneplus, Nothing phone: literally the same process as on a pixel, no code required to unlock bootloader or anything like that. Just fastboot flashing unlock

Vivo: The exact same thing, just get vivo’s binary for fastboot since the unlocl command is different

Motorola, Sony: Just go to the website and you get the unlock code instantly, then just run a fastboot command and you’re done

Realme: Download their app, apply for unlock, gets approved within an hour. Unlock with a fastboot command

Xiaomi, poco: Get their app, wait a couple of days for the code, unlock bootloader with fastboot command.

Honor and huawie are a pita, but there is an open source unlocking tool for certain devices which makes it deadsimple.

So there are still plenty of options if the goal is unlocking bootloader and rooting a phone, all of these brands offer phones with oled 120hz screens, with cameras ranging from decent to some of the best on the market depending on the model. There are probably some brends I missed, but you get the point.

Never had a oneplus or nothing, so can’t judge at all. But great they’re allowing it.

Don’t remember sony being cool about it. But also good to know they seem to have changed their stance, i always liked their phones hardware-wise.

But ok, phone market is full of phones, and i gave up on non-pixels a long while ago. Cool to hear they mostly are simpler now.

But besides, being able to unlock bootloader is great (even though root is way more important to me), but if there is no really well working daily-driver-alternative to truly de-google (or at least working googled roms), what’s the point to unlock other than making your own rom?

I had their flagship selected as my favorite, yet decided for an inferior pixel to just don’t have to worry anymore if shit is broken with the next update again. But as another poster reminded me of, since magisk it got a lot easier. Having the BL unlocked tho. So my rant probably was tok aged. Like me