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Which Android mobile phone brand brings less pre-loaded 3rd-party apps? (lemmy.lukeog.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Pixel phones from Google are the cleanest.

Edit: the cleanest you can get out of the box

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Pixel phones ship the entire Google garbase.

Anyway, OP said can't get a Pixel phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I appreciate OP has requirements. But as this discussion reaches a wider audience, it is absolutely necessary to indicate that pixel phones are the cleanest out of the box phone experience you can get. For all of the people who are not OP who are reading this.

The absolute cleanest experience is a pixel phone loaded with grapheneos, which isn't hard to install - they have a website that does it all for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The cleanest out of the box would be a brand shipping AOSP or something closest to it. Maybe Nokia, I'm not sure.

Pixel phones do not ship third party apps other than Google apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If you want to install pure AOSP, the only pure AOSP builds I'm aware of are for Pixel phones. And you can install them here, clean without any Google proprietary stuff, just AOSP pure and simple.

Http://flash.android.com

From the docs:

https://source.android.com/docs/setup/test/flash#device-requirements

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