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Not sure, but earlier I looked it up and apparently Zenphones get really good LineageOS support.

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LineageOS support is my only criteria for selecting a phone these days... this new Zenphone looks interesting

Writing this on a Zenfone 8 running lineage, it works pretty well!

This thing looks hard to get up here in Canada

Most Asus phones are carried at Staples here in Canada.... Another place to look is potentially Swiftronics.

> Most Asus phones are carried at Staples here in Canada

Maybe they were at one point, but the Zenfone 8 was never carried at retail in Canada, and Staples doesn’t currently have any Asus phones in stock.

Very nice! Ok done... I think I've found my next upgrade

How does LineageOS compare to CalyxOS? I swore to myself to never run Google Android, or mostly Google in general, if I can avoid it. Which means Pixel phones that support CalyxOS or Graphene. Nothing wrong with Oixel hardware, but having some additional phone options would be great!

Ooh neat. Definitely interested in this phone, with the short support life being one of the only apparent downsides.

Am I right in thinking that lineageos support doesn't really have an "end of life"?

You are technically correct that there is not a formal end-of-life, but rather a point at which you will stop being able to update because there’s no longer a maintainer working on backporting patches for that device.

At the end of the day, lineageos is best effort from volunteers, and you should weigh that fact when you decide what you want to use day to day.

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