Starting today, our CalyxOS Privacy Champion membership will come with the Pixel 8a as a membership premium! CalyxOS phone memberships are a great way to restore privacy for your mobile experience, as well as support our nonprofit mission to develop and distribute free online privacy tools. Plus, they make great gifts! To sign up or learn more, simply visit our member page.

As a new CalyxOS Privacy Champion, you will get a Pixel 8a pre-installed with CalyxOS as a thank-you gift. This Android operating system comes with default privacy-protecting settings, highly customizable control over personal data, and a full bundle of privacy-and-security-first apps.

The contribution required for this membership starts at $700 for the first year of membership. All of the contributions will go directly to maintaining and improving our tools to protect privacy and connectivity for everyone. If you would like to extend your support, please renew your membership with a $10 annual contribution after the first year.

With CalyxOS, you can make encrypted backups for your phone, secure communications with your contacts, control when and how your apps access the network, and more. We’re excited to pair these advances in our operating system with the Pixel 8a's improved hardware features, including Google's improved Tensor G3 chipset, which provides a significant upgrade in performance and processing speed from the Tensor G2 chipset in the Pixel 7a. CalyxOS will provide device support for this model at least through 2031, which means you can keep your phone for years without worrying about planned obsolescence or diminished performance. The 8a also features a long-lasting battery, a larger OLED display, smoother 120Hz refresh rate, and an aluminum frame with Gorilla Glass 3 upfront. Questions? You can get more details here.

Want to make your CalyxOS phone membership even more convenient? Combine it with our unlimited Wi-Fi hotspot membership! Our CalyxOS phone memberships comes without any Wi-Fi or data benefits, and can be used with any mobile data carrier.

Thank you for your membership and support,

The Calyx Institute