Which is why I'm monitoring !linuxphones@lemmy.ca for updates and good targets to daily drive for work purposes. We can't trust Google anymore.

There are other phone companies.

Graphene is working with a manufacturer to build a device for them.

Also, Graphene isn't the only game in town. Lineage is fine, yes, you can't re-lock the bootloader on most devices, but frankly that risk is overstated for the average person. For the people who need that kind of security, if they're that big of a target then the actors after them will have state-level capability. So it's a deterrent for less-capable adversaries.

Well the next gen graphene os release will be on their own devices. They're working with an OEM now.

Check out Davx5, that's what I used to pull contacts and calendar

Yeah. The biggest issues I've had with it are:

Google Wallet does not load (I use Passes or Catima to download tickets) and tap to pay does not work - Google Pay still works, just not through the app.

Some financial apps don't work. CapitalOne doesn't open, but I only need to login once a month to pay my credit card so I just do it on my computer.

My company's Microsoft Intune setup didn't work, but they recently restricted it to iPhone only so that's not relevant anymore.

Yep, it's the same stock UI and design language. Most of the modifications are under the hood and more user control over apps, permissions, etc