P6 and p7 seems not a good option, although thay are 20%-40% cheaper, their software support ends much earlier than p8.
Also the p6 and p7 have worse build quality (p8 seems having less hardware issues, for now) and battery life(mainly due to modem).
Get a refurbished p8 /p8a seems more sensible.
To be honest they do offer better specs on paper which are more attractive to normies - i.e, camera megapixels, battery sizes, processor specs etc. And genuinely useful things like a headphone jack. Would I trade a port for secure hardware, quick firmware updates and support for alternative OSes? Nah. But it is very worth mentioning.
They slapped a subscription service on top of it too.
Avoid!
I am fine with subscription services if they add value to the device. Apostophy’s services are questionable at best, but it does pain me to see the amount of people in the space who are currently doing things for less than they should be making
But they took GrapheneOS, ported it with a bunch of features missing to a trash phone, hyped it up as secure!!!1!!!, slapped a subscription on it, and set the price at 600 EUR.
Are they going to ship system and Chromium updates same day as GrapheneOS does? No? No.
A Pixel 8a with working verified boot and MTE and quickly delivered security updates until May 2031 is 549EUR and you can flash real GrapheneOS in minutes via their website.
The worst part is that there were some really influential people in the privacy and security space that promoted Punkt.
May I ask who?
Check your DMs.
I’ve been doing a lot of research and I’m going for a Samsung phone. My phone will contain my most personal data so I spent a lot of time researching and researching… 
First time I’m purchasing a device from Samsung but I’ll report back after I’ve done some tests on it!
Cellebrite breaks into Samsungs with 0 effort.
Same goes for every other device that isn’t a Google Pixel or an iPhone.
Why are you choosing a Samsung over a Pixel
Maybe because you can buy new Samsung phone with 2y warranty for 200€ (A35), and support until early 2028, while cheapest still supported Pixel (6a) is ~300€ with support until mid 2027. Also with better camera, modem, battery, sd card slot
If you pay 300€ for a Pixel 6a, then it’s the same as just being robbed on the spot, it doesn’t cost anywhere near that.
Better camera? How are mediocre cameras that are on A series Samsung devices better than Google Pixel 6a’s cameras?
Better modem? Pixel devices use the same modem that comes with Samsung devices, and it’s not great, Snapdragon modems are miles ahead.
Better battery? There is no way the battery life is better with all of that bloat that comes with Samsung phones when Tensor and Exynos chips are basically the same.
Samsung even contacted GrapheneOS about the possibility of using some of its security features:
Samsung’s software update policy is… bad.
One upside in paying extra fir your first pixel phone, is that you get much cheaper pixel phones in future when you trade in your old pixel.
Definitely not a private way to get a new phone but I would say a fair trade off.
I was wondering about this. My understanding is that Samsung’s have a setting to disable the USB port when the phone is locked. I wonder if that would help at all.
Yes it is!
I was watching a video by Shannon Morse and she briefly mentioned this. But I’m iPhone using scum and haven’t had an Android phone in many years so wasn’t sure if this is a Samsung thing or an AOSP basic thing.
Thank you for posting the screen shot.
I would turn it on if it were not for the McAfee auto scan which is turned on along with it… 
