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What's a good phone for use without Google's Play Store? F-Droid only. No Google account.
by Animats 2mo ago
What's a good phone for use without Google's Play Store? F-Droid only. No Google account.
- bhelkey 2mo agoIronically, Google Pixel phones are the best phones for leaving Google behind. The have an unlocked bootloader and are the only phones supported by GrapheneOS [1]. If you don't want to go to GrapheneOS, any Android phone should be able to use F-Droid. [1] https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
- Animats 2mo agoAfter September, will you still be able to install F-Droid on phones with Google accounts?
- martheen 2mo agohttps://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/faq#advanced-flow https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides/..., it's tied to the Google account so afterwards any device owned by the user can install F-Droid and any APK made by "unverified" devs.
- Animats 2mo agoSorry, without Google accounts. I don't want a Google account on my phone. I've never had one.
- wishfish 2mo agoPixels with GrapheneOS are your best and safest bet. In my specific case, I couldn't use Pixels because the terrible PWM on the screen was painful to me. Bought a cheap Motorola G Power 2024 with an IPS screen. Never logged into Google. Used Obtanium and FDroid for most things. Used Aurora for the one Play-only app that I needed. Running Netguard (a non-root firewall) with a whitelist so almost nothing phones home. Deleted or disabled almost all the non-essential built-in apps. I like the Moto but wouldn't recommend it due to the lack of OS updates. But this setup could be easily duplicated on almost any Android without needing root or roms.
- hommelix 2mo agoI'm happy with my Fairphone FP4 with LineageOS, but that just one datapoint.