Google Pixel 9a with GrapheneOS. The bootloader will come locked for security. This phone has been bought new and opened only to flash it with your degoogled OS. It'll ship to you back in its original packaging.

Please place your order, and then send a message to me afterwards on the submitted order if you would like CalyxOS or LineageOS. Please do not use the box during checkout to leave a note for the seller. That little note-to-seller box at checkout appears to not work half the time unfortunately.

Please note that if your final order comes out to $750 or more after tax, I'll have to ship this with signature confirmation.

Camera:

With the default AOSP camera, you get pretty good photos. It requires no config or effort and if doing photography isn't that important to you, this works well.

For those who are interested in maximizing the potential of the camera in Pixels, I will send a comprehensive guide after purchase if you request it for installing a modified version of GCam that is simple enough anyone can follow and answer any questions you might end up with. I prefer to do it this way because the process is simple enough and involves learning skills that are extremely useful when you own a degoogled phone. It's better to teach a man to fish and all that.

Carrier compatibility:

First, something to keep in mind is that you choosing to use a privacy-respecting phone hurts Google, Apple and every cellular service provider's bottom line. They do not want you using degoogled phones, so it is possible that we will have to do a little troubleshooting to get the phone working with your carrier after you receive it. For most people, especially those just transferring an activated physical SIM card from their old phone, the process is usually like using any other phone and works seamlessly.

This phone is guaranteed to work with T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon and U.S. Cellular and all of their MVNOs.

As long as you have a physical SIM that's been activated in a stock phone, you should be golden, and I've had success even activating lines on T-Mobile MVNOs in a degoogled phone. For other carriers, you might have to activate a new line's physical SIM in your old, stock phone.

The one exception is the AT&T MVNO PureTalk, who appear to have created some way to block any phone with a custom OS from working with their service, at least in the case of two customers I've had over the years. If you need AT&T, there is probably a better MVNO you could easily switch to with a little research.

Please keep in mind Verizon is easily the most difficult of the carriers to deal with when it comes to privacy respecting phones. If you are not willing to work through and troubleshoot issues that may arise, then a degoogled phone might not be for you. If at all possible, switching to one of the other major carriers or one of their MVNOs is highly recommended. T-Mobile is easily the best.

App Compatibility:

It is highly recommended to do a healthy amount of research on your specific mission-critical apps and their compatibility with the OSs you might be interested in. In my experience and the experiences of most of my customers, we run into either no issues or very few with the apps we want to use.

A few exceptions I can list out to illustrate what owning a degoogled phone is like though are crypto.com's app. There was a post some time ago on the GrapheneOS forums talking about a few apps like this one that look at a very obscure field within Android to make sure the app was installed from the Google Play Store before running at all. Naturally, something we're trying to do with degoogled phones is avoid anything Google including the Play Store like the plague, and using this app without compromising your privacy is something that would take tremendous skill to execute correctly.

In other cases, you'll have to experiment with obscure settings and fixes to get some banking apps working like HSBC's. However, the vast, vast majority of banking apps work without any problems at all.

I'd say issues like this are virtually non-existent outside of two main kinds of app. The first is financial apps like the two listed above,  and the other is ridesharing apps like Uber. While I can't guarantee every single app will work, I've been shocked by how smooth the degoogled experience can be most of the time.

Choosing an OS:

For those still deciding which OS to choose, CalyxOS uses MicroG to function out of the box exactly like a stock Android with notifications and excellent compatibility, and any compromises to security relative to GrapheneOS are negligible for the average user who is only using normal apps from trusted sources. CalyxOS is designed to emphasize simplicity and ease of use, and it has no drawbacks as far as privacy. When people ask and we talk about their use case and needs, I usually recommend Calyx.

GrapheneOS on the other hand is great for enthusiasts and certain security intensive applications like crypto. It is a bit more popular, so generally about 60% of my customers end up going for it, and that's why if I don't hear from you I'll send your phone with Graphene.

I highly recommend avoiding LineageOS on Pixels unless you're really sure it's what you want since upgrading the Android version on a yearly basis can't be done OTA and requires a PC with ADB. I will do it if you're OK with that drawback though.