Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS

Re:Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS by hans_castorp on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:30AM (#30510821)

There is also eFoundation: https://e.foundation/

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Re:Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS by npteljes on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @06:02AM (#30525988)

I use an S9 with their dev build, and with my own NextCloud, and it works fine.

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Re:Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS by em-bee on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @05:58AM (#30512560)

i was wondering why de-googled.com does not offer e.foundation as well, but then they sell phones as well, and i guess there is no need to compete on the same product.

very happy with /e/OS for more than two years now.

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Re:Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS by inediblePotato on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @07:01AM (#30513089)

Ditto. Have a fairphone3 with /e/ (bought directly from them) for 2 years also. It has it's quirks and compromises, though most of those are 'features' of not having google. Overall I am happy with it but it takes a bit of work to get most of the features back of a googled phone. Signal backups, shared notes, banking apps, etc. Most banking apps work, though some only with micro-g. I would like to test some other degoogled options to compare/contrast but I would recommend /e/ (which is very close to lineage+microg) to at least technically capable people, not yet ready as a birthday gift for granny though.

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Re:Degoogled phones running privacy oriented OS by em-bee on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @07:27AM (#30513278)

my mother in europe uses a phone with /e/OS just fine. she doesn't do phone banking though.

i live in a degoogled country ;-) so for me the experience is even smoother than local phones which are filled with spy and ad ware.

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