Hello! My smartphone is dying, so I'll soon have to buy a new one. I'd like my new phone to have pure Android, without all the apps that manufactures install. Ideally I'd like to remove the majority of Google services too, but there are some that I can't replace yet, so I'm still dependent on, like google maps. What smartphone do you suggest me? In your opinion, would it be better to buy a smartphone with already stock android or to buy any smartphone, and then replace the OS?

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[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social [S] -1 points 3 years ago

If you want pure android, then a Pixel phone, but if you want to degoogle, no…

why? other than "your'e giving money to google just before removing google"

Know that when you unlock bootloader/replace ROM, you will most likely lose the ability to pay with your phone, or play a cat and mouse game with magisk and addon and google Wallet.

I didn't know about this, custom ROMs cannot run these kind of services?

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