| ▲ | Animats 3 hours ago | |
What's a good phone for use without Google's Play Store? F-Droid only. No Google account. | ||
| ▲ | wishfish 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Pixels with GrapheneOS are your best and safest bet. In my specific case, I couldn't use Pixels because the terrible PWM on the screen was painful to me. Bought a cheap Motorola G Power 2024 with an IPS screen. Never logged into Google. Used Obtanium and FDroid for most things. Used Aurora for the one Play-only app that I needed. Running Netguard (a non-root firewall) with a whitelist so almost nothing phones home. Deleted or disabled almost all the non-essential built-in apps. I like the Moto but wouldn't recommend it due to the lack of OS updates. But this setup could be easily duplicated on almost any Android without needing root or roms. | ||
| ▲ | bhelkey 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Ironically, Google Pixel phones are the best phones for leaving Google behind. The have an unlocked bootloader and are the only phones supported by GrapheneOS [1]. If you don't want to go to GrapheneOS, any Android phone should be able to use F-Droid. | ||