Why YSK GrapheneOS is a step above the rest. I understand it’s ironic de-google phone/tablet with google hardware, but it just works better then anything else. Permission toggles, pin scrambling, auto-reboot, scopes, MAC randomization, isolated user profiles, longer passwords, sandboxed apps, open source firmware, no bloat & the battery life is incredible now.
I hope people understand how easy it is to move to Linux & GrapheneOS full time & remove Apple, Google, Microsoft etc. It exceeded expectations so much so that I want to share it with other people. I cannot recommend this enough to improve your life. #FOSS
I just recently got myself a Sony Xperia and while I haven’t delved into fully working on the privacy of it, Sony seems mostly hardware focused, so they just run vanilla Android on them, which I like. Degoogling has been super easy so far, though I havent switched out location services yet.
They are definitely a pretty penny though. I was lucky and got mine open box for half price, and even that could have gotten me 2 pine phones.
ETA: Unlocking the bootloader isn’t available on the US editions, apparently