ティージェーグレェ on Nostr: We'll see. I got a Pixel 8a recently to replace a 5a that died earlier this year ...
We'll see.
I got a Pixel 8a recently to replace a 5a that died earlier this year (talk about a short lived device!). It claims it will receive updates until 2030, but Alphabet Inc./Google have lied in the past.
Overall, it seems as if it is a massive downgrade from the 5a. Headphone jacks are a win to me and the Android Auto integration seems worse by far as well.
I'm going to try GrapheneOS on it to see if it rectifies the vast observable deficiencies; but as someone who was using Android in the ADP1/G1 days it only continues to get worse with time. The last Android device I used which I didn't utterly despise was the Sidekick 4G (which was basically a Samsung since by then Danger and their HipTop had been subsumed by Micro$oft and the Sidekick was basically a T-Mobile rebranding of the HipTop anyway so they were free to slap that name onto other vendors' devices).
I got a Pixel 8a recently to replace a 5a that died earlier this year (talk about a short lived device!). It claims it will receive updates until 2030, but Alphabet Inc./Google have lied in the past.
Overall, it seems as if it is a massive downgrade from the 5a. Headphone jacks are a win to me and the Android Auto integration seems worse by far as well.
I'm going to try GrapheneOS on it to see if it rectifies the vast observable deficiencies; but as someone who was using Android in the ADP1/G1 days it only continues to get worse with time. The last Android device I used which I didn't utterly despise was the Sidekick 4G (which was basically a Samsung since by then Danger and their HipTop had been subsumed by Micro$oft and the Sidekick was basically a T-Mobile rebranding of the HipTop anyway so they were free to slap that name onto other vendors' devices).