Now you say that about used phones, we may have an older Pixel phone....... On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 11:05 AM Lucas Francisco Fryzek via linux < linux [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: > Hey, > > On 2026-10-12 10:54, Jean-Francois Messier via linux wrote: > > As a general rule here, I think we will now avoid Samsung products for > > future phones. Any Android expert who could recommend another brand, one > > which could accept a non-Google OS ? > I think in terms of buying new phones the options aren't that great. You > could try to import a Murena /e/OS device from Europe/over seas like the > Fairphone. You could wait for Motorola to release their Graphene OS > compatible devices, although from what I understand this will only be > higher end devices, and they won't come with the OS you'll have to > unlock the phone and flash it yourself. > > If you're okay buying used I think the best thing is a recent-ish pixel > device that is compatible with Graphene OS or Lineage OS. For Lineage OS > you can look through their device Wiki[1] unfortunately many of them are > older devices as manufactures seem to what to make it harder to run a > custom ROM. > > - [1] https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ > > BR, > Lucas > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > >