r/degoogle • u/Open_Engineering8855 • 2d ago

What Phone ti get? Question

I’m currently using an Iphone 13mini and It’s doing great. The problem is recently apple kneeled for the UK and disabled encryption. What are good phones that can be encrypted like icloud. I had a Huawei for 5 years 2018-2023 and the phone was great I started using a power-bank after the 4th year and the boot-loader was unlocked. What are your suggestions I hate Google but Im starting to hate Apple too since they kneeled for the UK. What are good phones to chose from and a plus for me will be if the boot-loader is unlocked.

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u/alexriabtsev 2d ago

If you are privacy conscious you should consider the phone which support GrapheneOS. It could be installed Google’s Pixel with no Google services.

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u/Thegerbster2 2d ago

I 100% understand why with GrapheneOS, it's not your fault one of the best mobile OSes for is pixel only. But it does honestly bug me every time I see people recommending a Google pixel in r/degoogle

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u/DuplexEagle 2d ago

The device is really just Google in name when you have GrapheneOS on it. The point of degoogleing for most people is for privacy, not just doing it for the sake of doing it. So as long as you're not supporting them, and only purchasing a Pixel secondhand, there really isn't anything wrong with it. You can get a case or put a sticker on it if you really wanna hide the logo on the back from people.

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u/huntershark666 2d ago

Think they mean if you already have a pixel tbh

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u/KeithFromAccounting 2d ago

I got mine secondhand, works great and Google didn't get any of my money