I am planning to buy a new phone since my current 6-year-old one’s screen is getting problematic.

I don’t live on the European or American continents, and my country is rather short on choices—we only have Samsung, Apple, Huawei and other Chinese brands.

Importing is not an option because the prices rise to five to tenfold, and I cannot afford that since the already available ones are more expensive than the rest of the world here.

Which available brands and models can I easily DeGoogle and dodge other big corporation bulls?

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Xiaomi has unlockable bootloaders after 14 days i think. And Oneplus too without any wait.

    If you don’t want to completely degoogle, you can use adb to disable all the google related apps. it works on nearly all phones.

    • asdasd201@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
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      21 days ago

      I tried to disable Play Store on my current phone, but the banking apps refused to work after a while.

      I heard Xiaomi made the unlocking harder for Chinese roms. Idk if it’s also applicable for global roms though.