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Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I don't want any of it!

Next phone I buy I want to start with a clean slate, I'm not going to affiliate with any conglomerate like Verizon or AT&T or Sprint or T-Mobile etc, I prefer to go rogue somehow,

which smartphone do you recommend that has no bloatware and it's customizable?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Murena phones are basically Fairphone with /e/OS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki//e/_(operating_system) with IMHO compare to GrapheneOS.

Their privacy features are really good. It replace Google Services with an open source equivalent. Not sure I can deploy Google applications.

The result is a smartphone mostly degoogled, a good UX and you 'feel' the privacy features without being annoyed by them.

EDIT: changed "completely degoogled" to "mostly degoogled".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Murena phones are basically Fairphone with /e/OS

One of the main features of Fairphones is that they are easily repairable - it doesn't look like Murena has done anything to make it easier to fix.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is the same hardware. Only provided by a company preloaded with /e/OS. It is not easier to repair, it is the same.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They don't look the same though. I've only been to the Murena website and looked at their "phone 2", that's not the same hardware as Fairphone.

Edit: okay, I should have scrolled down a bit more. It looks like they made a " Murena Fairphone" too, where they've given a Fairphone the Murena treatment.

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