I'm more angry at google for removing them from the pixel than for apple.
I want to vote with my dollars, but at the moment the options for phones with headphone jacks and no crapware preinstalled are exceedingly limited.
I want to vote with my dollars, but at the moment the options for phones with headphone jacks and no crapware preinstalled are exceedingly limited.
A thousand times this. The current market for phones is absolute crap. We need more competition. (And we also need at least some of that competition to quit playing "follow the leader" when the "leader" is an imagined title, and the "leader" is clearly blind and thrashing...)
LG G7 One
Xiaomi A1/A2 Lite
Moto X4
Nokia 6.1/6.1+/7+
The Moto G6 for example has Treble but Motorola has said it will only get one major update, to Pie. It came out in May with March security patches, they released the May security patch in July, and then released the July security patch in September.
Android One devices will (supposedly) all receive 2 major version updates and 3 years of monthly security patches.
But when Treble is installed, isn't installing a ROM with the new version a simple business, at least for people who can follow technical instructions ?
In principle a Generic System Image (GSI) can be flashed onto any Treble device and everything will just work. From what I've seen so far this is not really quite true and there will still need to be device-specific tweaks to ROMs, but the amount of device-specific code should be far lower than before and make life easier for maintainers. Hopefully the end result is more devices with functioning and well maintained ROMs available.
Blackberry KEY2 / KEY2 LE
Both have headphone jack, dual SIM (or SIM + micro SD) and monthly updates.
BB even has a keyboard!