NitroPhone – Pixel 4a phone with GrapheneOS
Well, while I like a lot of things about Graphene, at the moment there is at least one aspect of it which makes it somehow unusable (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GrapheneOS&#x2F;os-issue-tracker&#x2F;issues&#x2F;24" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GrapheneOS&#x2F;os-issue-tracker&#x2F;issues&#x2F;24</a>)<p>Currently Graphene does not support Network Location Providers. So, apps won&#x27;t be able to get location when you are indoors and location lookups would be slow.<p>Also there is some strange conflict between Graphene and Calyx, for some reason unknown to me Graphene guys consider Calyx as &quot;malicious project&quot; (see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GrapheneOS&#x2F;os-issue-tracker&#x2F;issues&#x2F;632#issuecomment-910745635" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;GrapheneOS&#x2F;os-issue-tracker&#x2F;issues&#x2F;632#is...</a>). At the same time they use SeedVault which is developed by Calyx. I guess they need to add some notes on this into their FAQ.<p>So, while I think that Graphene has a lot of good properties (e.g. sandboxed Play Services are MUCH better than microg) and is somehow superior to Calyx, I won&#x27;t recommend Graphene to a regular user who is privacy concerned but doesn&#x27;t want to trade too much for privacy. For such people CalyxOS (probably a self-build) looks like a better option.