What are smartphones in China running? Presumably not something Google controls.

mrheosuper 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Degoogle Android, Actually quite easy to bring back google service. I'm using the Chinese-version vivo x200p, the most troublesome is having to put app in enery-intense mode if you want them to run in background, or else the OS will kill them if they are unused for a while.

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ollybee 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

HarmonyOS NEXT, which is the only serious viable alternative to ios or android

	▲	pjmlp 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which is a microkernel based OS, with a userspace based on ArkTS, C, C++ and eventually Cangjie. Quite interesting for us OS nerds, less so for those that only care about UNIX on their phone.

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jaapz 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Mostly just de-googled android

	▲	hamsterbase 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Huawei's HarmonyOS is quite good. As for other brands like OPPO and Xiaomi, I've used them before too. You can use Google Play and a whole range of Google apps, but the localization adaptation is much better.
	▲	pjmlp 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		HarmonyOS and HarmonyOS NEXT, are they own thing.