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Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

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395 points josephcsible | 1 comments | 13 Oct 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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kypro ◴[13 Oct 25 16:29 UTC] No.45570267[source]▶
As someone who doesn't really care about apps, if I wanted to move away from Android what phones and OSs are worth considering?
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1. yndoendo ◴[13 Oct 25 17:06 UTC] No.45570756[source]▶
Don't know how the Google's actions with affect AOSP. There are few options depending on location / country with base band frequencies.

Murena with e/OS/ [0], Purism with PureOS [1], Volla with Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch [2], and Furei Labs with FuriOS [3].

Those are the companies actually trying to sell a phone versus Pin64 selling a device to tinker with.

Alternative is checking personally managed OSes like postmarketOS [4] and Ubuntu Touch [5].

[0] https://murena.com/ [1] https://puri.sm/ [2] https://volla.online/en/ [3] https://furilabs.com/ [4] https://postmarketos.org/ [5] https://www.ubuntu-touch.io/