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Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (www.theregister.com)

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Android isn't Google.

Pretty surprised they didn't mention SHIFTphone with IodeOS

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

What?? Do you have an android phone? Google is so deeply integrated that you can't even disable uninstall it.

[–] lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm running LineageOS btw

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl -4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I do have an android phone.

There is no google on it by default. Have you ever installed android before? By default, it's without gapps. You have to download an extra package even to get the google crap on it.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 4 points 7 hours ago

You are talking about custom roms. For 99.999% not the reality and therefore not helpful.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much all phones comes pre-installed with Android and completely tie to google with no easy way to get rid of it. Android is essentially develop by Google, open source or not, I'm not gonna waste time on rhetorical arguments on this.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Pretty much all laptops come pre-installed with Windows, but it's best practice to wipe and reinstall the OS immediately after you buy it

Same applies to cell phones.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Definitely not as simple to wipe out a phone as it is for a computer, and anyway most phones like Samsung are hard locked. I'm probably more geek than 95% of the population but never could do it.