79
Which Android mobile phone brand brings less pre-loaded 3rd-party apps? (lemmy.lukeog.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
66 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Please write the 3 phone brands (in order please) which you think they bring the least number of third-party apps.

Notes:

  • 1- PrivacyGuides recommends Google Pixel. But it is not selling on my country. I can not bring it from other countries because it will not have warrant.

  • 2- We also don't have fair-phone and nothing-phone (i can not bring it from another country).

  • 3- we only have: general-mobile, huawei, samsung, asus, tcl, htc, xiaomi, vivo, infinix, oneplus.

  • 4- please dont recomend custom ROM. Its technically difficult for me. Also I will recommend the device to my friend (they don't have even an idead what is custom-rom)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What difficulties do you encounter with the custom ROM stuff?

If you get a oneplus, they are very forgiving of things you could do to brick a phone.

A recent oneplus and installing a custom ROM (LineageOS + MicroG) would be fairly doable for a larger audience than just the "nerd" or "hacker".

If people know what you struggle with particularly, they can help better.

To get rid of google completely, a custom ROM or other technical things are necessary, but debloating using a standard tool is a good first step and is better than what you will have from the off.

https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That depends on the model. Plenty of newer OnePlus phones use mediatech processors with little to no custom ROM support.

    A fact I found after buying a new OnePlus phone without doing any research because I was in a desperate situation.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ah I see, is bootloader unlocking etc still available? (A more techy person could still go hard on privacy implementations)

    I'm using nothing myself but the op said its unavailable in their country. I also noted that now lots of ROMs come preloaded with GAPPS whereas you had to load separately in the past.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •