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Re:Google-Free Android Smartphones Are Now Available in the ... by approxim8ion on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @09:07AM (#26315436)
>/e/ Foundation is Offering Renowned Smartphones But Without Proper Android and Google Experience On Them

That seems like a really unfair thing to say. What is "improper" about it? The fact that Google Play Services or FCM is used for notifications for example is not an issue with the android platform, but a case of Google being power-hungry.

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Re:Google-Free Android Smartphones Are Now Available in the ... by Mediterraneo10 on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @09:35AM (#26315708)
The linked website is an infamous low-quality content farm designed to draw readers into clicking on affiliate links. Its authors are low-paid content writers who just need to quickly produce a few more-or-less grammatically coherent and SEO-heavy paragraphs, even if the claims within are weird or baffling, and one shouldn’t put too much stock in anything said there.
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Re:Google-Free Android Smartphones Are Now Available in the ... by leephillips on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:44PM (#26318794)
Maybe a better article would be https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/google-free-e-os-is-...
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Re:Google-Free Android Smartphones Are Now Available in the ... by stonesweep on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @10:39AM (#26316387)
The source they got this from reads OK: https://news.itsfoss.com/e-smartphone-us-shipping/
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Re:Google-Free Android Smartphones Are Now Available in the ... by detaro on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @09:15AM (#26315510)
ending is even more ?!

> we live in an age where nothing is really private, so a phone that caters to those concerned about their privacy makes very little sense

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Re:Google-Free Android Smartphones Are Now Available in the ... by mturilin on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @01:24PM (#26318522)
I wonder what would it take to have an open alternative to FCM, which is probably the biggest limiting factor for having Google free phones?
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