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Show me a mid-market up to top end Android phone that isn't made in China...

Yes I know there's a series of specific Samsung models that are approved for US govt use and are likely made in a facility in south Korea.

I think we have two categories of things

A) phones made in China with software/OS load for CCP compliant censorship and data collection

B) phones made in China with software and OS load for the global market (example would be oxygenOS on an English language OnePlus phone. If it turns out there's hidden data collection or censorship frameworks in oxygenOS I would be very disappointed.)

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I bought my Pixel 4a specifically because it wasn't made in China (Vietnam). I would have considered upgrading to the 6 if it were made somewhere else. I also was considering a Google Titan security key until I learned they were made in China, too.

All Samsung phones are NOT made in China, or? At least that is what I read here: https://www.makeuseof.com/where-are-samsung-phones-made/

Apple: I trust their US QA to detect planted spyware.

Siemens Gigaset smartphones are made in Bocholt, Germany. I think Siemens is the last of the big consumer mobile manufacturers with any manufacturing in Europe to speak of.

Apparently /e/OS, the free Android distribution by Mandrake founder Gaël Duval, is available pre-installed, so there should be solid LineageOS support.

Where something is made doesn't tell us where the components are sourced however. It is MediaTek based, so make of that what you will.

MediaTek is a Taiwanese company, no problem with that.

Plenty of Sony's phones are not made in PRC. Sony builds them in Japan, Thailand, and India.

You are wrong at least about Samsung phones: https://www.sammobile.com/where-are-samsung-phones-made

Is it known for certain where the series of devices mentioned here are manufactured?

https://news.samsung.com/us/samsung-devices-achieve-approval...

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/gov...

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