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)

  • jetAEnglish
    63·
    8 months ago

    I appreciate OP has requirements. But as this discussion reaches a wider audience, it is absolutely necessary to indicate that pixel phones are the cleanest out of the box phone experience you can get. For all of the people who are not OP who are reading this.

    The absolute cleanest experience is a pixel phone loaded with grapheneos, which isn’t hard to install - they have a website that does it all for you.

      • jetAEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Motorola phones: asop + google + Motorola

        Pixel phones: asop + google

        Asop flashing pixel only: asop

        How is the risk surface lower on a Motorola phone?

          • jetAEnglish
            2·
            8 months ago

            I see we are talking about very different things when we talk about bloat.

            If Google play has super control of the phone I consider that bloat and a huge risk surface.

              • jetAEnglish
                2·
                8 months ago

                It’s the least amount of trusted parties you can get on Android phone. Since every android sold outside of China has Google play as super root anyway, limiting the trusted parties to one is the least bloated you can get… And that’s pixel. If you want AOSP. That’s also pixel, the only phone with pure AOSP builds available

    • MrSoup@lemmy.zip
      43·
      8 months ago

      The cleanest out of the box would be a brand shipping AOSP or something closest to it. Maybe Nokia, I’m not sure.

      Pixel phones do not ship third party apps other than Google apps.