Re:F-Droid: Android FOSS app store
by space_boy on Saturday October 21, 2023 @12:19AM
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What are your thoughts on the various de-googled custom ROM projects available for Google Pixel phones?
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On the software side, they seem to be equally good from a technical standpoint: they let you live outside of google, be root etc.
I'm less a fan of the google pixel hardware: eInk devices provides a different experience.
In the "usual" (Google, Samsung...) western brands, there are no good eink pocket (cellphone sized or less, like the inkpalm or hisense) or normal sized eink tablet (>8" screen) alternatives, especially if you want color.
The kindles are more like phablets, and have lots of software limitations.
I have a color eink tablet with a 10" screen. Outside of Chinese companies, there isn't anything available. If there was such a google pixel device and I could reflash it and mod it as easily as Chinese devices and without limitations, I would consider it.
Have you seen the Boox Palma? If I didn’t love my Inkpalm so much I might consider one.