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Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I don't want any of it!

Next phone I buy I want to start with a clean slate, I'm not going to affiliate with any conglomerate like Verizon or AT&T or Sprint or T-Mobile etc, I prefer to go rogue somehow,

which smartphone do you recommend that has no bloatware and it's customizable?

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[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

PInephone! A bit of work, requiring to not being shy opening the hood of a linux system. but totally worth it, the reward is freedom and its continuous cycle of collective learning...

(although the Pinephone is not really a "smartphone" in the sense most people use that word: a restricted computer that allows to run wallgarden applications.... a pinephone doesnt natively run "smartphone apps" and is more like a full-blown, general purpose computer running GNU/linux that also contains a modem enabling calls, sms and data...)

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pinephone hasn't quite reached daily driver status... And don't get me started on the PPP.

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been daily-driving one for more than three years now, and totally happy with it. (with some caveats, some work and nerve-wracking moments, but that's the exciting lot of the continous learning of free/libre computing...)

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess that's the point, really...a lot of people wouldn't consider those caveats to be...prime for daily driver status.

[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

sure. but you and OP are maybe not "a lot of people" anyways ;)