Pixel phones are criminals‘ top pick in Spain’s Catalonia for their strong security and mod-friendly design.
Pixel phones are apparently the phone of choice for criminals, drug dealers, and gang members in Spain’s Catalonia.
Police say every time they spot someone with a Pixel, they think they must be a drug dealer.
The popularity of Pixels among the wrong crowd has little to do with Google phones and everything to do with Android’s open nature.
Police in Spain, specifically in the autonomous region of Catalonia, are very alert when they spot someone using a Google Pixel phone. As weird as it sounds, Pixels are highly preferred by those involved in organized crime, according to the Catalan police.
“Every time we see a Google Pixel, we suspect it might belong to a drug dealer,” said a police official leading the anti-drug operation in Catalonia, as per Xataka Android (machine translated).
But why are Pixels popular among criminals in that region? It really has little to do with how Google makes its phones and everything to do with the open nature of Android, which lets users use alternative operating systems.
