Samsung has longest update policy, A series and M series are highly affordable can it be suggested for someone who has tight budget but needs moderately high security and privacy? Will there any drawbacks of choosing samsung phone instead of Google pixel in terms of privacy/security. Heard samsung …

[image] Evil-usr: Samsung has longest update policy, A series and M series are highly affordable can it be suggested for someone who has tight budget but needs moderately high security and privacy? The support cycle for flagship samsung devices does not apply to their budget models. [imag…

currently google pixels are not available in all countries and iphones are pretty costly , is there any good smartphone devices which provide high security and privacy and is affordable for common people.

You really should not be using any phone like this: ARM reported vulns in their drivers after being informed by Google Project Zero: Arm Security Center Last year the same thing happened. Google was the only one providing patches somewhat timely (grapheneOS was faster) . Samsung never informed t…

To add, somethings I forgot. Samsung Knox does not exist anymore. All of it was integrated in AOSP so any modern Android phone has these protections. There isn’t really an alternative to Google Pixel or iPhone. If you chose not to get this for perhaps understandable reasons and limitations you wil…

The main issue is, unless you buy a flagship, you won’t get long term support, simple as that. The reason the Pixel is popular, is because of Secure elements , Trusty OS , and Titan M2/Tensor Security Core . Which are superior to other devices. Part of it is also that GrapheneOS does a lot on the sof…

[image] Daniel Gray: The support cycle for flagship samsung devices does not apply to their budget models. This is false. The press release for the latest generation of budget Samsung Galaxy phones states “Galaxy A53 5G and Galaxy A33 5G support up to four generations of One UI and Android OS…

I was referring more to their J series, though even these seem to be now four years , which is an improvement.

[image] Evil-usr: Heard samsung has knox which provides high security for users. I tried to acquire Knox recently but apparently they do not have those in our country. Also with regards to the availability of longer software support, it was a somewhat recent feature. The low end phone that I…

[image] Evil-usr: currently google pixels are not available in all countries and iphones are pretty costly , is there any good smartphone devices which provide high security and privacy and is affordable for common people. I don’t believe that Pixel devices doesn’t exit in your country, but I…

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