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Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (www.theregister.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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https://murena.com/

https://www.punkt.ch/

https://volla.online/en

https://jolla.com/

https://furilabs.com/

https://puri.sm/

https://pine64.org/

https://store.fxtec.com/

Quick reminder that starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/10/29/keep-android-open-movement-fights-google-dev-requirement/1470903

Addition:

Several of these OSes, including Sailfish, FuriOS, Mobian, and postmarketOS are all pure Linux OSs. They're not derived from Android, but they can all run an Android VM or container, and so allow you to install and use Android apps.

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[โ€“] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Fairphone can bought with Android or e/OS. On the e/OS site they say

/e/OS is a "deGoogled" version of Android OS

So a Fairphone with e/OS will still have a dependency to Google. It might be possible to use Fairphone with postmarketOS or something else that is based on Linux, I have not looked into it.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Thanks for sharing. I looked into it more.

    According to https://forum.fairphone.com/t/fairphone-6-linux-compatibility/123874/9

    Fairphone 5 and below works.

    And the following https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/promoted/

    shows Fairphone selling Gen 5 with Ubuntu touch.

    https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp5/release/noble/

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 5 months ago

    Cool, Fairphone + Ubuntu touch seems like it would be a good combo. The only question mark is how well banking apps and other must have apps are working since they often have dependencies to Android or Iphone.

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