My intention is to buy the cheapest smartphone I can reasonably get as I need to use a phone for professional reasons; the company uses Whatsapp and other applications I do not want to have occupying space in a smartphone I use for my personal life.

I’ve been loading my phones with FOSS applications from F-Droid for years now but I am aware the loop is tightening and continuing to do so is becoming more and more difficult.

Ideally, I would like to keep this phone as much as possible exempt from connecting with Google. This means I don’t intend to load an account on the phone and instead load F-Droid and Aurora to get the software I want to use.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 天前

    Just the person I wanted to ask. Similar boat, pixel 10, but no graphene. Any issues with things like duo or bank apps or whatnot

    • Leigh Weigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 天前

      I have several bank accounts everywhere. 2 required you to go into settings and click a button to make them work, most work, PayPal does not work at all. If you’re an android auto user, it’s complicated to set up the first time but then you never have to do it again.

      I think discover didn’t work but, they just merged with capital one which does work.

    • imminent_nebula@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 天前

      I have a 9 with Graphene, and use a second profile for banking apps. This profile has a burner google account, and aurora store for banking apps which works fine, just no tap. My main profile is all f-droid/obtanium, though I run sandboxed google services for notifications.