Please write the 3 phone brands (in order please) which you think they bring the least number of third-party apps.

Notes:

  • 1- PrivacyGuides recommends Google Pixel. But it is not selling on my country. I can not bring it from other countries because it will not have warrant.

  • 2- We also don’t have fair-phone and nothing-phone (i can not bring it from another country).

  • 3- we only have: general-mobile, huawei, samsung, asus, tcl, htc, xiaomi, vivo, infinix, oneplus.

  • 4- please dont recomend custom ROM. Its technically difficult for me. Also I will recommend the device to my friend (they don’t have even an idead what is custom-rom)

  • lemming123
    221·
    6 months ago

    What difficulties do you encounter with the custom ROM stuff?

    If you get a oneplus, they are very forgiving of things you could do to brick a phone.

    A recent oneplus and installing a custom ROM (LineageOS + MicroG) would be fairly doable for a larger audience than just the “nerd” or “hacker”.

    If people know what you struggle with particularly, they can help better.

    To get rid of google completely, a custom ROM or other technical things are necessary, but debloating using a standard tool is a good first step and is better than what you will have from the off.

    https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

    • BuckenBerry@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      That depends on the model. Plenty of newer OnePlus phones use mediatech processors with little to no custom ROM support.

      A fact I found after buying a new OnePlus phone without doing any research because I was in a desperate situation.

      • lemming123
        3·
        6 months ago

        Ah I see, is bootloader unlocking etc still available? (A more techy person could still go hard on privacy implementations)

        I’m using nothing myself but the op said its unavailable in their country. I also noted that now lots of ROMs come preloaded with GAPPS whereas you had to load separately in the past.