Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

I moved to a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS a few weeks ago. I can do everything I need to, everything I want to, and with more control over my digital footprint and what data is being collected about me. I've completely moved off Google services.

The OS experience is pretty impressive for not being made by an evil megacorp. The hardware is fairly midrange, but midrange today is last year's top end, and unless you're some expert photographer or needing phone VR or whatever, it's a great, normal smartphone experience.

I'm donating to the open source devs who make my apps, and they respond when I ask for useful features instead of always enshittifying it. For the corpo apps, it pulls from Google Play.

I use a Librem5 Linux phone. With the default PureOS operating system.

Enjoy your freedom, break free from Google and Apple.

Have a full Linux computer in your pocket that you can also use for calling.

See also the discussion on this post: https://mastodon.social/@janvlug/116504044251287290

> But can I run my apps?

> Well, probably, yes.

Even with "probably" as a qualifier, this is disingenuous.

Not even Android has caught up to the highest tier of apps available on iOS.

Ubuntu Touch was amazing, way ahead of Android and iOS when it came out, the touch gestures were so much better than what was available.

But then it's just maintained by very few people nowadays and half abandoned.

You can buy a used Pixel 3a if you want to toy around with it, they cost nothing.

I looked at Punkt.

They keep saying "If you don’t pay for the product, you are the product". Okay, all fine and well.

But what will my phone still actually be able to do if / when I stop my subscription? Not a single clear answer besides "[…] gradual feature deactivation, and ultimately reverting to a device running AOSP".

Doesn’t really inspire confidence.