I visited 3 stores looking for the pixels 7a. One of these stores (best buy) sells it at a 20% discount for only 2 weeks, brand new, 128 GB, so I may go for it to buy and nuke to install graphene OS, then relock it.

A poster suggested me to avoid verizon, because they lock the bootloader to prevent you installing anything else.

This one seems to be a pixels directly from google: on a table displaying other google devices and earbuds, but I wouldn’t want to buy something I cannot relock on non-stock software.

ETA: what port does it use for charging?

  • @algorithmae
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    09 months ago

    Why do you want to relock it?

    • @mudeth@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      More secure: any bootloader tampering happening via physical access to the device will trip the warning.

      More compatible: some apps (banks usually) flag an unlocked bootloader as a security threat.