I did my research before buying my current phone, but turned out all phones that could run lineage OS were too expensive, not a single affordable phone was supported. (With the exception of really super old discontinued models that are too slow to even open a webpage and battery past it’s useful life)
When I purchased my device in 2023, I purchased the OnePlus Nord N200 5G, which was released in 2021, brand new in the box, because it supported Lineage OS, and I’m still using it today.
It’s because I only charge my phone between 30 and 80%. It still has less than 400 charge cycles on the battery. And so I’m basically using a 4-year-old device as a 2-year-old device and it still works fine with lineage OS.
Unfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.
I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.
Yeah, I’m not sure just how low of a device you can get and get Lineage OS on it. I know that I generally don’t pay less than about 300 for devices because otherwise they get too slow for my use case.
I definitely don’t need a $700 device or above, but 300 to about 400 is my sweet spot.
Then make sure your next device is capable of running linear joes without Google Play services before you purchase it.
These days I do not make a phone purchase without making sure it will run lineage OS first.
I did my research before buying my current phone, but turned out all phones that could run lineage OS were too expensive, not a single affordable phone was supported. (With the exception of really super old discontinued models that are too slow to even open a webpage and battery past it’s useful life)
When I purchased my device in 2023, I purchased the OnePlus Nord N200 5G, which was released in 2021, brand new in the box, because it supported Lineage OS, and I’m still using it today.
It’s because I only charge my phone between 30 and 80%. It still has less than 400 charge cycles on the battery. And so I’m basically using a 4-year-old device as a 2-year-old device and it still works fine with lineage OS.
I also paid $300 for it brand new in the box.
Unfortunately $300 is still the double if what I’m willing to pay for a phone, I paid 150 for my spyware phone, and while I hate the lack of privacy and freedom such device provides, it does everything I need it to do with the apps from f-droid. I just don’t use it for anything that requires secrecy.
I guess I will just stop updating when the new “feature” rolls out and see what happens.
Yeah, I’m not sure just how low of a device you can get and get Lineage OS on it. I know that I generally don’t pay less than about 300 for devices because otherwise they get too slow for my use case.
I definitely don’t need a $700 device or above, but 300 to about 400 is my sweet spot.