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Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone (www.theregister.com)
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[-] oce@jlai.lu 44 points 5 days ago

From the article:

  • Murena (France) with /e/OS (France) on:
    • Fairphone (Netherlands)
    • Hiroh (USA)
    • SHIFTphone (Germany)
    • Teracube (USA)
  • Punkt MC03 (Switzerland)
  • Volla (Germany) with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch (Germany)
  • Jolla (Finland) with Sailfish OS (Finland)
  • Furilabs (China) with FuriOS (pronounced "furious") based on Debian with Phosh UI.
  • Purism Librem (USA, manufactured in the USA)
  • Pine64 (China) Pinephone with Manjaro (Germany), postmarketOS (?) or Mobian (USA)

I checked the privacy policies / statutes on the websites to estimate the legal location of the projects.

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago

Thanks for doing this.

Also, I'm not surprised to see Canada absent from the list (as is tradition...)

[-] UnpledgedCatnapTipper@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago

I believe GrapheneOS is Canadian, but nobody sells phones with it out of the box (yet, Motorola is supposed to start at some point)

[-] NoAlias@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Reportedly early 2027

[-] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 days ago

all of LATAM being absent as always too, and oceania and africa

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

even if it was there, banking apps?

[-] dudesss@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Still waiting for someone to break the market for us. Doesn't need to be Canadian owned. Although I'm not sure who would be a distributor. Maybe https://openbox.ca/

[-] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 days ago

I thought Mobian was an international project?

[-] ryokimball@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

Hiroh appears to be a vaporware; looking for it now, I think it was meant to release in March and then April, websites still shows April release date but that month has come and gone with no release.

[-] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

I can't speak for Hirod specifically, but delays in the release of niche hardware devices are extremely common.

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