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Samsung M series phones from India are essentially subsidized for Ads, they have all major International data hoarder apps, Indian equivalents and their Samsung
by Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
Samsung M series phones from India are essentially subsidized for Ads, they have all major International data hoarder apps, Indian equivalents and their Samsung equivalents.
Apps from Samsung's app store masquerades like security updates and constantly prompts to install.
I made the mistake of buying them for my parents, even though they use their phone just for WhatsApp like most Indian parents, each of their phones generates ~2000 DNS requests/week which I'm dutifully sinking into PiHole.
- sidcool 6y agoThat's true. I always use Stock Android.
- RealStickman_ 6y agoDid you check if lineageos available for those devices?
- Abishek_Muthian 6y agoThere could be, but as I mentioned WhatsApp is important for them and AFAIK WhatsApp updates are finicky with 3rd party ROMs as they explicitly detect them and ofcourse Playstore itself is not straightforward. Besides, Suprisingly Samsung pushes almost regular monthly android security updates for these devices.
- RealStickman_ 6y agoLOS updates are usually monthly as well (as long as there's a maintainer around). Play Store can be gotten very easily by flashing one of the OpenGAPPS packages after the OS install. Not sure what problem you would have with WhatsApp, as it works fine for me and I arguably have an even more unusual setup than you would have with LOS and Gapps. (Using LOS, but with microG instead of Google Services)