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To get a good experience degoogling your Android phone, you have to go farther and install an aftermarket OS, like Lineage OS.

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I'd love to, but mobile phones are bad-compromise-all-the-way.

I can't live without a proper SSH client, and that requires a proper keyboard where you can actually do key combinations.

Any phone with a keyboard (and not ancient) can't receive an unofficial OS. e.g. blackberry Key2

Either because they do not have unlocked/vulnerable bootloaders, or because you must have the closed source driver running to be usable. Android is not opensource and even lineage OS still requires TONS of closed source binary blobs to even boot. There is zero open source android alternatives.

> I can't live without a proper SSH client, and that requires a proper keyboard where you can actually do key combinations.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.pocketworkstation.pckeyboar... Not quite the same as a hardware keyboard, but does support key combinations with modifier keys.

Well, Termux [1] as a ssh client works well enough for the basics when I am too lazy to shift my 'okole to the office.

[1]https://github.com/termux/

The F(x)tec PRO¹ might be of interest to you. Comes with a full keyboard and LineageOS support.

Planet Cosmo Communicator and Planet Astro Slide have a physical keyboard and support custom OSes.

> .. install an aftermarket OS, like Lineage OS

LineageOS for microG fork, lineage.microg.org. Lineage refused to include it for some reason.

It needs patches that allow faking the app signature. They consider this bad practice/a security risk and they are kinda right. I patch my lineageos to support signature spoofing though and use micro g.

or whole hog and get a Pine phone?

Just get a Huawei phone. That's Android without Google.

Soon it will be even more Google-free, with Huawei's own Hongmeng/HarmonyOS. They just released a beta of version 2.0: https://www.huaweiupdate.com/harmonyos-2-0-to-support-androi...

you say potato I sat potahto.

Same thing, different company.

Also different government listening in.

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