For enthusiasts, it is literally an existing phone slapped on an XDA logo and LineageOS.
If it wants to legally ship with GMS, it still needs to pass CTS, and you still cannot root without breaking SafetyNet.
Might as well just buy any popular phone and flash any custom ROM.
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For developers, this is no different than any other smartphone, maybe even worse than Pixels.
If this phone is for developers, I'd expect almost everything, including the bootloader, to be open source so people can *really* mess around with it.
Look at PinePhone, not this one.
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So yeah, unless you are a diehard XDA fanboy which drolls over the XDA logo when you look at the back of the phone, I cannot see any reason why anyone should buy one.
Let me know your thoughts though, I'd love to know the reasons why you would disagree 😉
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You're forgetting privacy enthusiasts who do not want to mess with their device and want to have a google free phone with a keyboard out of the box.
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Both Copperhead and Graphene have very limited hardware support, plus a number of organisational limitations. I've been using e.foundation ROMs for over a year and like it quite a lot.
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The limited hardware support is because as far as I am aware, only Google Pixel devices support running locked bootloader with 3rd party image signing keys.
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I'm reading that also oneplus phones allow this, from oneplus 5 onwards.
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Interesting, I have OP6T but never tried to re-lock.
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Apparently on the 6t you have to flash the key exactly how it is possible on the pixel
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Look into GlassROM. It's not really possible, since the implementation is broken and doesn't enforce verified boot. Aside from the broken implementation, they also definitely don't provide an equivalent to the hardware security features including in regards to this.