That’s interesting, I live in the android world for a pretty long time now and am interested in tech in general but never heard of SHIFTphones before which is especially surprising since they seem to tick all my boxes.

Do you have experience with them? They seem to have an active developer and custom rom community. How long is the official update support for their devices? This is the most important criteria for me these days. I am still running a pixel 4a in perfect condition which sadly does not get any updates anymore. I don’t want this to happen again in the future if I can avoid it.

Also, any idea how there can be custom roms for the SHIFT phone 8 even tho it’s not even release yet?

Indeed

If you need a car just once a week you shouldn’t own a car at all. Take the bus!

Stop spreading this nonsense. He made ONE comment that made it clear he is not accepting contributions for political reason from people not part of the project.

The “freakout” was entirely external.

Haha yes, I was making a joke, it’s still my main phone tho.

I like the 4a a lot, so I am not gonna replace it. It works like a charm, still!

Pixel 4a, still waiting…

Man now I want one as well, so one you imagined. :)

Wow nice, still using a Pixel 4a as my daily driver!

*edit: meh, my 4a is not eligible

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Exactly!

I am in the same boat right now. I still use a Pixel 4a. It’s a great device, has exactly the size and performance I need, perfect condition but I don’t get updates anymore. It’s insane that in a time where resources get a real problem this is still allowed. If they can’t support it at least force them to open source the software/drivers or something.

Yeah my exact thoughts. Repairable phones are mostly useless if the vendor blobs don’t get updated anymore after x years. Until we have an open ecosystem, as we have on desktop PCs, repairable phones are only good on paper.

Same here and I don’t even use the search that much. Love it

Pixel 4a gang checking in. We should create a club!

I am in session 7 of my rewatch, so this was the first connection I made a well. 🙂

Does anybody know for how many years this device gets system / security updates?

Sadly there are no options. I don’t really need a new phone, the hardware is still fine for me but not getting any updates sucks. At some point I might have to bite the bullet and get the 8a or something.

Pixel 4a checking in. 🙂

We, or I might have to accept that a species, no matter how intelligent on an individual basis, is doomed to go extinct when the collective intelligence is not able to mitigate long term consequences.

I have the same as a secondary device. It’s getting slow tho. :)