Right now I have a Nokia 8 and it cannot be rooted because the bootloader cannot be unlocked. Which sucks a lot.
Are there any manufacturers that make Android phones that are easy to root and have good support for LineageOS or something similar?
Right now I have a Nokia 8 and it cannot be rooted because the bootloader cannot be unlocked. Which sucks a lot.
Are there any manufacturers that make Android phones that are easy to root and have good support for LineageOS or something similar?
The only two hacker-friendly phones are Librem 5 (purism and Pinephone (pine64, but they are not yet finished/polished just yet (work in progress).
Some other phones are more or less good. Fairphone is good, the rest is really to be avoided unless you REALLY know what you’re getting. If rooting your phone is your only concern, you’ll probably find something that suits you. But if you’re interested in software/hardware freedom and don’t see a reason why the modem inside your phone should be technically capable to start your microphone or exfiltrate your entire data from memory to the phone network without your knowledge, then you should really go with Pinephone or Librem5 because they’re the only pieces of hardware even trying to respect users.
I mentioned Fairphone before. They’re not user-hostile. But they’re also mostly concerned with supply chains “ethics” and do not worry too much about hackability/security of devices. All other brands are REALLY user-hostile on so many levels i won’t even start.