You can just do it wirelessly, just like you would with any other phone

GrapheneOS lets you choose whether you want to have a sandboxed google play installation. This way apps such as Maps work. Basically you are in control (except for Google Pay).

I have never used an eSIM, but I’d like to know about them. Can anyone explain what are some reasons to use it?

Your comment made me happy

I see, fair.

I’ve searched your phone on xda and it has some ROMs which support it. Not official LineageOS though 🥲

Aren’t almost all (at least photo editing ones) new Pixel 8 & Pixel 8 Pro features in the cloud? What things do you mean when you say Google is moving to local processing?

I’m indeed very sensitive to the price. However, here in the EU the prices are much higher and a Pixel 7a costs 509€ in Google store and the 6a 349€.

I’ve been using my phone for almost 6 years now and now that I started uni I need a phone that doesn’t crash when opening Gmail or takes too long to do any thing. I’m sure the 7, 7a or 6a can do this fine but I’m trying to get the 8 because of the 7 years support so I can flash graphene and forget, while the others have less than 5 years if I buy them now.

And yes it is a huge amount of cash for me, I never had a phone that expensive, but I feel like I need a phone like this one and its original price is almost 200€ more expensive so that’s why I’m asking here. Can’t even consider iPhone as they’re literally unaffordable for me.