Whats the least evil phone I can buy?

The answer is none, isn't it?

On a related note, Huawei phones are hard to find in Australia :thinkin-lenin: I wonder why? :xi-lib-tears:

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I dug around and it turns out Huawei is banned in the US? They might be banned here in Aus too. Apparently android might not work on them or something?

        • spectre [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I can't give you a firm answer (I'm writing this post off the top of my head), but if their phones can't use play services, you will have issues. A lot of apps depend on a bunch of Google Play Services APIs to work correctly, although there is an open source project to build a drop in replacement called microG but my understanding is that it isn't quite there yet. In general, yes you should expect usability issues if this is the case.

          HOWEVER, some people (I'm not one of them though I see where they're coming from) who would regard these issues as a worthy trade off for keeping some distance from Google for privacy or whatever reasons. The subreddit that you'd want to start researching would be old.reddit.com/r/fossdroid if that sounds like a route you'd go down. If you use Linux full time, it would be something doable, but if that's not your thing I'd keep my distance.