jumperalex

It doesn’t ahve all the hardware needed for all the channels. It DOES however have enough to actually work. Verizon certification is a well known difficulty.

And none of that explains why the US Verizon version doesn’t come with /e/OS

Yes you can put whatever COMPATIBLE OS you want on it. Sadly GrapheneOS isn’t one of them. But again, you’re not wrong. I was just highlighting what I found about the options and their trade-offs.

There is Verizon service, you have to buy from the US store. But then it is Android and not /e/OS … it took me a while and a fair number of AI tokens to full figure that out.

trl;dr it is a hardware cert problem why the EU version is T-Mobile and the US is VZW/ATT. I still couldn’t figure out why the US-VZW/ATT version can’t have /e/OS but it still smelled like obtaining certification is the problem and there doesn’t appear to be any public statements on a timeline for it.

If you want privacy, buy a pixel and flash GrapheneOS.

If you want modularity/repairability buy a Fairphone.

• If you want modularity/repairability and privacy, buy an /e/OS Fairphone from the EU store but accept only T-Mobile
• If you want modularity/repairability and ATT/VZW, buy a Fairphone from the US store but accept no extra privacy
• If you want it all, guess we gotta wait.