MWC 2024 Awards announced: Google Pixel 8 series wins Best Smartphone

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MWC 2024 Awards announced: Google Pixel 8 series wins Best Smartphone
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  • Best Smartphone: Google Pixel 8 series
  • Breakthrough Device Innovation: Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3
  • Best Connected Consumer Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Ultra
  • Best in Show: Honor Magic V2 RSR Porsche Design
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Give Grapheneos a try!

I like the fact it de-google's the device and strips the preinstalled BS; but It says it doesn't even come with the Play Store. How would I get my normal apps?

It doesn't include the Playstore per se, but it does provide an installer for a sandboxed Playstore.

You can get Aurora store from fdroid which lets you download apps without having a google account.

It has the playstore, even has android auto now.

Fair warning, you do lose access to some offline AI features like improved voice dictation and song recognition as well as Google Pay. I'm okay with the tradeoff personally but it is still a downside.