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Which Android mobile phone brand brings less pre-loaded 3rd-party apps? (lemmy.lukeog.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Please write the 3 phone brands (in order please) which you think they bring the least number of third-party apps.

Notes:

1- PrivacyGuides recommends Google Pixel. But it is not selling on my country. I can not bring it from other countries because it will not have warrant.
2- We also don't have fair-phone and nothing-phone (i can not bring it from another country).
3- we only have: general-mobile, huawei, samsung, asus, tcl, htc, xiaomi, vivo, infinix, oneplus.
4- please dont recomend custom ROM. Its technically difficult for me. Also I will recommend the device to my friend (they don't have even an idead what is custom-rom)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (15 children)

Pixel phones from Google are the cleanest.

Edit: the cleanest you can get out of the box

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

You have three options:-

Use a tool like Universal Android Debloater to disable (but not completely remove) them.
See if you can get Nokia or Motorola phones. These have mostly vanilla Android.
Get a Xiaomi or OnePlus phone with a custom ROM pre-installed.

[–] Bogusmcfakester 1 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I'm going against every one of your requirements by suggesting a pixel 6 or onwards used on eBay and install graphene os, it has the least amount of bullshit and is stupidly easy to install even for someone who's never heard of a custom ROM

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Pixel and GOS , very easy to install. Warranty blaha. Oneplus usually have a lot of lineage support. Spend and afternoon on YouTube , XDA forum and learn.

All of your brand's listed are bloated. Samsung is really bad though.

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