It makes me sad that the F(x)tec Pro1 X never got a successor. It looks like a very cool phone.
Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
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Re: Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
#52This article fails to mention GrapheneOS. The article starts with Murena, Punkt, Volla which are all based on Android. If you do this, then imho you must mention GrapheneOS, the by far better option (updates, privacy, security, organisation). Google Pixel with GrapheneOS is the best non-Google phone... ;-)
As much as I like graphene it is literary running on google hardware (atm) and uses asop. Even if it is a really good option is you want to run degoogled and secure android.
Murena (/e/ os), Punkt, Volla use aosp
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#53Every such post brings tears to my Nokia history filled eyes...
Things could have been so different.
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#54I'm writing this reply from an AuroraOS phone (a descendant of Sailfish OS).
Yes, it is quite hard to get a non-duopoly smartphone..
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#55What I miss a lot is to be able to have a kind of "virtual" android running in a cloud instance. That could look legit to Google to not be restricted by integrity check and all.
But there I could share access to my single instance to my multiple non Google non play store devices, eventually sharing access between multiple persons...
Like for example, every crappy things like banks nowadays requires their own shitty app. It might be a pain in the ass to share between phones or to reinstall if you lose or change your phone. And all these useless app consume really a lot of storage resulting in my phone's being always full.
That would be perfect to access it in a kind of remote access for use once in a while.
Re: Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
#56This article fails to mention GrapheneOS. The article starts with Murena, Punkt, Volla which are all based on Android. If you do this, then imho you must mention GrapheneOS, the by far better option (updates, privacy, security, organisation). Google Pixel with GrapheneOS is the best non-Google phone... ;-)
I’m waiting to see what they come up with for the Motorola partnership. Hopefully it’s interesting.
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#57Re: Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
#58I 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 ex…
/e/ OS lied about the security and how "degoogled" the phone really is because it sends data to Google for MicroG
Only to the extent you use Micro-G, and Micro-G mitigates a large portion of the Google data harvesting. The built in App Lounge does not require a Google login to pull downloads from the Play Store, so it's possible to remain entirely anonymous to Google.
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#59Many years later and I'm still bitter that the tech press laughed Windows Phone out of the room straight to its demise. Yes it had very little developer support but at some point things were looking up. It was just the butt of too many jokes from influential people. A third ecosystem right now would have been amazing
> A third ecosystem right now would have been amazing
Initially read this ending on … amazon
Please Universe, don’t give us the Amazon Phone as alternative.
Re: Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone
#60Many years later and I'm still bitter that the tech press laughed Windows Phone out of the room straight to its demise. Yes it had very little developer support but at some point things were looking up. It was just the butt of too many jokes from influential people. A third ecosystem right now would have been amazing
Intel fumbling smartphone's cpu felt like this too.