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Oooh, what's this? A gift from @shiftphones :o

its running a more up to date kernel patchlevel than the pixel 3, and a newer android security patch level :o

And the best bit, secure boot off :D

@calebccff Sweet phone, and 💅

I hadn't heard of shift until now

@rob ty! and yes they're super cool, from what I can tell

@calebccff
Yeah, Pixel 3 wont get a newer Android patch level than that, although likely Google will give it another update before completely abandoning. No doubt the Hikey using the same SoC helps with mainline and makes these phones good devices to support.

You know when SHIFT are going to stop gettinf full qualcomm security updates for this phone?

Also, like others occasionally do (was it Samsung & Oneplus?), they broke the AOSP December patch embargo by releasing early 🧐

@calebccff now that's a great message to put at the bottom of the back of a phone

@ollieparanoid it's really neat, tbh. It displays during boot too!