Urrg! I have one of those CPUs. (Exynos 9820) I don’t want to upgrade with an expensive new phone. I get no longer security updates.
Pixel and grapheneos…
About as good as normie can get currently
Buy used to dent google direct profit and it is cheaper
Pixel phones can have hardware quality issues. Samsung arguably makes the best hardware. Their cameras and screens have always been way ahead of every other phone.
I have heard about that. Samsung prolly does have better quality but their US models got locked bootloaders and theu dont really get any support from calyx and graphene, so i cant recommend them.
As idiotic as it is, googles phone is the besy choice if you are privacy/security first type
Custom roms dont require rooting. It is a bad security practice and not necessary.
GrapheneOS uses sandboxed google play store and most banking apps work fine with exception like CashApp and other bankspy type shops.
I’d try it, but this is essentially an emergency signalling device and not something I’d like to render inoperable.
Here’s the scope of it
A National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) advisory on the bug describes it as “an issue [that] was discovered in the m2m scaler driver in Samsung Mobile Processor and Wearable Processor Exynos 9820, 9825, 980, 990, 850, and W920.” A use-after-free bug in the mobile processor ultimately leads to privilege escalation, the agency added.
