My current phone (iPhone 13 mini) is telling me to retire it, and I want to get into Graphene. I really dislike that my phone sometimes will just hang while I’m swipe typing and don’t want to buy a new one that has these latency issues. I also don’t want to spend a ton of money.

I was looking at the Pixel 8a which is being sold for $500. Anyone else use it with Graphene? Do you use a swipe keyboard? Any responsiveness issues?

What about storage? Coming from Apple, I can see my current phone using about 64GB with OS + apps. Anyone recently made the transition and can tell me if I can expect this number to grow or shrink?

Thanks a bunch!

  • philycheeze@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Was the banking stuff easy to get working? I’m looking to ditch my iPhone but I also don’t want to spend more than a weekend getting my basics swapped over.

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      6 days ago

      Pretty easy for my bank. My bank has a 2FA, like or not i need the app if i need to do online transaction. Cant do shit with the website.

      The stupid thing is, my bank only need playstore app installed when im trying to activate the 2FA. After i activate the 2FA, my banking app doesnt seem to care if playstore is installed.

      You can refer bank compatibilty here.

      , https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

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      6 days ago

      My banking app works, but I stopped using it because it’s bloated garbage (100mb!?)

      Instead I use Hermit or Native Alpha to create shortcuts to websites like bank, Amazon, etc. These make websites function like apps, so I don’t need the crappy apps from these places, and have a single app install instead of multiple crappy apps.