My pixel 7 is shitting the bed and I am considering upgrading and just installing graphene immediately on the new phone as part of my degoogling journey.
Is there anything I need to know about this? I work in IT, so I’m tech savvy. This is my first time installing graphene, however.
I’d be upgrading to a pixel 10 probably.
My carrier is verizon
Do NOT buy a phone from Verizon or Verizon MVNOs like Spectrum. They can be carrier unlocked but the bootloaders are permanently locked and there is no way to unlock them. Their sales reps will tell you they can be completely unlocked but that’s not the case.
US Mobile’s Pixel prices are good and they can be unlocked (carrier and bootloader) after 60 days. It is one MVNO that doesn’t bootloader lock phones when you choose Verizon service.
Amazon’s Google store (in addition to Google direct) has bootloader unlocked phones but they are pretty expensive most of the time.
I thought all pixels where unlocked.