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indideaon Environmentally conscious smartphone is finally coming to the US

The Murena Fairphone 4 is available for $599 and runs on a Google-free /e/OS operating system instead of the standard Android OS.

indideaon Can I buy a phone that doesn’t use anything from Google or Apple?

Yes! https://e.foundation/e-pre-installed-smartphones/

indideaon Open source, privacy-enabled smartphone operating systems

Project website at: https://e.foundation/

indideaon Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported

Now there is a release forked from LOS 15, that supports new devices.

indideaon Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported

From e Foundation website: "our mobile phones, even when using no Google service, connect to Google Servers tens of times per hour (91 times per hour for an Android mobile with a total amount of 11,6MB of data sent on a single day, and 51 times per hour for an iphone, corresponding to 5,7MB of data sent to Google servers)." With a reference to: https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DC...

indideaon Leaving Apple and Google: more devices now supported

Interesting reading: https://hackernoon.com/leaving-apple-google-e-first-beta-is-... https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/wiki/en/wikis/faq

indideaon Eelo Mobile OS Kickstarter NEWS

excellent!