Been using it for few months now a CMF Phone 1 by Nothing https://cmf.tech/en-be/pages/phone-1 thanks to Murena, specifically https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-cmf-phone-1/

I could have probably set that up myself but I wanted

• not to be bothered, i.e. buy a phone, put my SIM card on, move on
• financially contribute to the support of deGoogling

and this felt like the most pragmatic compromise.

So far it's been doing exactly what I wanted, namely :

• make phone calls (duh, it IS a phone after all)
• integrate seamlessly with my Linux setup thanks to KDE Connect (including sending/receiving SMS from my desktop)
• be stable (crashes maybe once a week at most, usually due to specific apps)
• be able to install apps without having any account, neither Google nor Murena
• be able to install apps from F-Droid

so IMHO it's a great alternative to either iOS (and thus be stuck with US Big Tech with heavy lock down for developer and constant lock-in attempts) or Googled Android (clear no for me) or deGoogled but requiring quite a bit of tinkering.

All in all I spent more time explaining why I liked in online and offline than setting anything up so I'd argue it was well worth the extra 100 EUR to have it installed on hardware that was known to support it well.

PS: few more notes https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Android#MurenaCMFPhone1