After appx. 20 years in the apple eco-system I have decided to move on.
This will take time, i’m thinking 2-5 years.
My first order of business was a tablet. I couldn’t find a viable european tablet so went for a Samsung Tab S10 Ultra which has worked out great. It won me over from my pre-conception that android is somehow more budget, 2nd tier stuff. Its actually a very solid well-designed/built piece of kit in every way an equal to an iPad.
So i’m looking at Fairphone and Nothing right now for a new phone, i’m not in a hurry, I was supposed to upgrade my 14 Pro this autumn and i’m thinking that is still the time line.
Are there other european alternatives that I should be looking at?
Will air pods and apple watches still work in any sort of way with android? I will eventually replace them but both are still quite new.
Any advice from people who has already done this journey?
Pic ridiculous but related.
Nothing Phone from the UK.
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get that Nazi poster outta here
It was a soviet poster - there has been a lot of them, each showing people from different republics doing stuff together. Like people from occupied Baltic countries cared of people from Kazakhstan and everyone wanted to be together
millions of people were sent to gulags because everyone wanted to join the Soviet Union, great revisionism
Fairphone with eOS if you want to get away from Google even more. No google services but access to f-droid and the play store with anonymous accounts.
Or, get a second-hand phone and flash it with eOS or lineage OS.
Take a look at this list. SHIFT from Germany is somewhat comparable to Fairphone in terms of modularity, HMD from FInland has also recently introduced some modular design into their phones. Note that these phonse are not manufactured in Europe, I’m not sure if any smartphone is. Another option not listed on that Wikipedia page is Mudita, from Poland, which is in the process of launching its first minimalist e-ink smartphone the Kompakt.
My wife just bought the HMD/NOKIA G42 phone.
It’s a low end phone but still surprisingly good, and excellent battery life.
One thing she really likes is the concept that allow you to repair it yourself if necessary.It’s just about the opposite of an Apple phone in every way. 😋
That’s interesting, I live in the android world for a pretty long time now and am interested in tech in general but never heard of SHIFTphones before which is especially surprising since they seem to tick all my boxes.
Do you have experience with them? They seem to have an active developer and custom rom community. How long is the official update support for their devices? This is the most important criteria for me these days. I am still running a pixel 4a in perfect condition which sadly does not get any updates anymore. I don’t want this to happen again in the future if I can avoid it.
Also, any idea how there can be custom roms for the SHIFT phone 8 even tho it’s not even release yet?
