Murena launch privacy-centric smartphones: DeGoogled Android phone does the job

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I actually bought one phone sold by Murena because of burns from multiple lineageOS phones not getting any updates or being buggy (I don't blame people porting lineageOS it's a hard and thankless job).

The experience is pretty good since I don't have to do anything of the following anymore: unlock bootloader, install TWRP, install lineageOS, install microG, install F-Droid, install Aurora Store and hope for the best but more often than not something fucks up along the way and I get no notifications, no network location, etc.

Would recommend.

Two days ago I received a Fairphone 4 from Murena. Seems solid can't say much more so far. I replaced the default app launcher as it does not offer the possibility to show all installed apps. I come from Samsung and I like its (localized) keyboard much better than the stock Android one. I am not sure I can get install a different one which I can trust.

One thing that bugs me: the camera spec is 48MP but the default camera app seems to support 3000x4000 (12MP) resolution max.

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