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Can I unlock the bootloader?
Sadly not, maybe Nokia will reconsider this policy in a few years when they return to economic health.
Bollocks. Useless to me then sadly.
Nobody’s Cellphone Is Really That Secure
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three years of frequent updates is pretty much the best support you're going to get with any android phone. i personally love my pixel 2, but they sold about half as many pixels in 2017 as samsung sold phones in a week. [0][1] samsung does give monthly security updates to its flagship products, but it won't support anything for more than two years. i think it's clear that consumers don't actually give a shit about up…
> i think it's clear that consumers don't actually give a shit about updates when they choose their next phone, The people that do give a shit pick ios. Security and updates was the #1 reason I moved from Android to iOS.
Yup. I'm on iphone for this reason + privacy. The ecosystem integration with ipad is a nice bonus
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#64How about an iPod Touch and FaceTime audio?
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#65Nobody’s phone is really that secure... but an iPhone vulnerability costs more than an average Bay Area house, while an Android vulnerability is more like the cost of cleaning that house once. Edit: turns out the figure for an Android vulnerability is off by several orders of magnitude. What a garbage article!
Google also has a bug bounty program for Pixels, paying up to $200,000.
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#66> Google now has its own phone—Pixel—that gets security updates quickly and regularly. The Nexus 5 line used to have this until Google decided after three years to stop supporting it despite the hardware continuing to last well beyond that.
three years of frequent updates is pretty much the best support you're going to get with any android phone. i personally love my pixel 2, but they sold about half as many pixels in 2017 as samsung sold phones in a week. [0][1] samsung does give monthly security updates to its flagship products, but it won't support anything for more than two years. i think it's clear that consumers don't actually give a shit about up…
>>three years of frequent updates is pretty much the best support you're going to get with any android phone.
I have an HP computer with an OS from big, bad Microsoft and get updates even though my computer is 7 years old. I paid around $400 then (rebates and all.)
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#67> Google now has its own phone—Pixel—that gets security updates quickly and regularly. The Nexus 5 line used to have this until Google decided after three years to stop supporting it despite the hardware continuing to last well beyond that.
You can get the latest Android on the Nexus 5.
https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/hammerhead
Updated 2 days ago: https://download.lineageos.org/hammerhead/changes/
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#68Nokia 6.1 (2018 model) costs $270 USD with Android One (at least 2 years of monthly security updates), metal body, fingerprint sensor (no notch), headphone jack and hardware-based remote attestation for tamper detection. https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/circuitbreaker/2018/5/...
The Xiaomi Mi A1[1] is much cheaper with similar specs. Even this year's update is cheaper[2].
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Xiaomi-32GB-Factory-Unlocked-Compatib... [2]: https://www.amazon.com/Xiaomi-64GB-Camera-AndroidOne-Smartph...
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#69> Google now has its own phone—Pixel—that gets security updates quickly and regularly. The Nexus 5 line used to have this until Google decided after three years to stop supporting it despite the hardware continuing to last well beyond that.
The problem was hardware manufacturers ie processor etc would not support newer versions of the OS and kernals. Thats why they have come up with project treble with that you would be able to install newer versions of android long after they themselves stop giving updates.
Wouldn't be a problem if hardware would have drivers in mainline kernel
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#70> Google now has its own phone—Pixel—that gets security updates quickly and regularly. The Nexus 5 line used to have this until Google decided after three years to stop supporting it despite the hardware continuing to last well beyond that.
You can get the latest Android on the Nexus 5. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/hammerhead Updated 2 days ago: https://download.lineageos.org/hammerhead/changes/
Lineage is great, but that's 14.1 (Android 7, not "the latest" 9) and Lineage can't patch vulnerabilities in binary driver blobs.
Still - much better than being left in the cold by your OEM