What will you purchase instead? It sucks that the modern smartphone OS market is a duopoly.
replyFairphones are easy to unlock, repairable, have a long lifetime and offer a variety of different operating system distributions.
replyThe Motorola one, when it comes with GrapheneOS!
replySince they're saying "Google phone", not "Android phone", I imagine the next purchase could be a Samsung or such.
replyComments elsewhere in this thread say other major brands are even more locked down.
replyEdit:
> With One UI 8, Samsung removed the OEM-unlocking capability globally,
> Samsung uses a physical Knox Warranty Bit/e-fuse. Loading unofficial software can permanently trip it.
This seems far worse than google releasing source slowly