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In that case a fairphone might meet your requiements while still being open to installing alternative OS'es.
Is fairphone available in the US yet?
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> I think it's best practice for anyone wanting a de-googeled device to just buy one of these phones in store with cash and then load the custom OS themselves The best practice is to abandon locked down Android phones and switch to GNU/Linux phones (Librem 5 and Pinephone).
Linux phones are entirely impractical for most people. I live in India, and there are several apps I need to use to access government services that only work on iOS and Android. Some services aren't even available over the Web. We're at a point where any successful mobile OS will at least need to support running Android apps, preferably directly from the Play Store. I suspect this is one of the reasons Microsoft is a…
There is also eFoundation: https://e.foundation/
i was wondering why de-googled.com does not offer e.foundation as well, but then they sell phones as well, and i guess there is no need to compete on the same product. very happy with /e/OS for more than two years now.
It is tested using sample-size=1, does not yet have good documentation and I'm in the process (low priority) of setting up meaningful testing and CI. However, I think the code, once cleaned up, is relatively portable to other devices (that support LineageOS). Disclaimer, I'm involved in the development of that repo.
Typing this on a grapheneos pixel 6 pro. It makes a fine daily driver. Main complaint: Location stamps for google camera photos are a bit intermittent unless I give the sandboxed play services network access. Not sure why it's so hard to ping GPS occasionally in the background, and stick the last known location in the exif data. Still, I would recommend this setup to the HN crowd.
I've been driving Graphene for over a year. Absolutely amazing experience (for a degoogled phone). Kudos to the great team.
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i was wondering why de-googled.com does not offer e.foundation as well, but then they sell phones as well, and i guess there is no need to compete on the same product. very happy with /e/OS for more than two years now.
Ditto. Have a fairphone3 with /e/ (bought directly from them) for 2 years also. It has it's quirks and compromises, though most of those are 'features' of not having google. Overall I am happy with it but it takes a bit of work to get most of the features back of a googled phone. Signal backups, shared notes, banking apps, etc. Most banking apps work, though some only with micro-g. I would like to test some other deg…
i live in a degoogled country ;-) so for me the experience is even smoother than local phones which are filled with spy and ad ware.
There is also eFoundation: https://e.foundation/