No, but it might not be as good as one might expect out of the box. In most implementations of gps, location accuracy and latency is helped with additional methods, like your phone using its distance to various cell towers to figure out where it is.
Features like this can come with privacy issues, which for Graphene is a higher priority issue than slightly worse navigation. You can of course go into location settings and enable all that, just make sure to read the added disclaimers as they go into more detail.
Seconded. Been rocking GrapheneOS since the Pixel 4 XL (my goat minus the bloated battery issue), the Pixel 6 Pro (which sucked as a phone since it uses Google’s shit-tier Tensor modem), then Pixel 8 Pro (which seems to have a better Tensor chip, though still not great in some areas for cell reception).
All the banking apps I use work flawlessly on Graphene. Of course, payment/wallet apps won’t work, and I’ve only had two experiences where that bit me in the ass (attending concerts and needing to open a ticket in a wallet app I couldn’t even use).
The added security features are top notch. Being able to set a duress password definitely helps in case I’m ever in a situation where I’m forced by a pig to unlock my phone, and setting multiple profiles on my phone helps so much with compartmentalization.
Would I prefer if Graphene were on a different phone? Fuck yes, which is why as soon as the Motorola partnership produces a phone (with Qualcomm Snapdragon hopefully), I’m jumping the Pixel ship and never looking back. Hoping that’s just the beginning for Graphene being ported to other phones, though I feel it’s gonna be like pulling teeth with these other phone manufacturers (like FairPhone).
Graphene has been great for me.
Yeah but what’s it like?
Its like using Android.
Oh, neat!
Can you use the play store? Can you install apks from github? Can you use launchers?
Yes.
Can you use banking apps, Google wallet, Google pay (or other NFC payments)?
I could use banking apps yes, there is a resource on the grapheneOS forums.
Wallet, pay are not working, iirc. Don’t use graphene anymore since i don’t have a pixel anymore
Cool, thanks
The only thing that was not working as well for me was GPS, but that was probably my own fault, i maybe misconfigured something.
You have to configure gps?
No, but it might not be as good as one might expect out of the box. In most implementations of gps, location accuracy and latency is helped with additional methods, like your phone using its distance to various cell towers to figure out where it is. Features like this can come with privacy issues, which for Graphene is a higher priority issue than slightly worse navigation. You can of course go into location settings and enable all that, just make sure to read the added disclaimers as they go into more detail.
Seconded. Been rocking GrapheneOS since the Pixel 4 XL (my goat minus the bloated battery issue), the Pixel 6 Pro (which sucked as a phone since it uses Google’s shit-tier Tensor modem), then Pixel 8 Pro (which seems to have a better Tensor chip, though still not great in some areas for cell reception).
All the banking apps I use work flawlessly on Graphene. Of course, payment/wallet apps won’t work, and I’ve only had two experiences where that bit me in the ass (attending concerts and needing to open a ticket in a wallet app I couldn’t even use).
The added security features are top notch. Being able to set a duress password definitely helps in case I’m ever in a situation where I’m forced by a pig to unlock my phone, and setting multiple profiles on my phone helps so much with compartmentalization.
Would I prefer if Graphene were on a different phone? Fuck yes, which is why as soon as the Motorola partnership produces a phone (with Qualcomm Snapdragon hopefully), I’m jumping the Pixel ship and never looking back. Hoping that’s just the beginning for Graphene being ported to other phones, though I feel it’s gonna be like pulling teeth with these other phone manufacturers (like FairPhone).