I was planning on getting the Pixel 8 but will hold out for a while. Would love to hold my Pixel 5 for a couple more years but security updates will stop end of this year so we’ll see then.
You can still install LineageOS and probably get even more standby battery life (because I bet their build is more clean than Google’s. Google and Pixel launcher together are taking 7% of my battery life with more than a day of background usage).
However the issue for me is that I like to keep the bootloader closed in case my phone is stolen. And I think with LineageOS they don’t recommend doing that. So this is one of the reasons I never tried to install it in my wife’s pixel 4.
The other reason is the time to restore all the apps, backup, check if the esim is still there and not deleted (it’s a pita to get a new esim with my carrier) and all that kind of stuff.
Maybe it’s the same case. But my carrier is so medieval that charges me 15€ everytime I need to print a new QR code to pair my esim with a device and they only issue this in a physical form. So this is why I would not give it a shot haha.
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