Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android

arent there mods on the sub to delete clickbait crap like this?

Google is kind of being invasive. Kind but kind of.

PostmarketOS for everyone!

What ever happened to that other OS that was named after a color

We are going to move away from Google, by basing our new future on AOSP, which is also primary maintained by Google.......I smell another FireOS level product on the horizon. Still Android, but worse.

Linux-mobileOS!

If it's not proper linux I don't care

A rumor of plans??! Tell me everything!!!

Before anyone gets too excited, the headline is clickbait. The bigger Chinese phone brands are looking into de-googled Android. They are still going to use Android.

several prominent Chinese smartphone manufacturers, including Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and OnePlus, are exploring the possibility of developing versions of the Android operating system that do not rely on Google Mobile Services.

Chinese laptop makers are also in search of an OS that isn't Windows. Queue a race to prop Linux with Android support on that side of things.

Make it so

We need phones with standard Linux. Without strange "Java only mediator" or something. Just a normal OS.

Android is a pain in the ass.

How easy is it to degoogle Android? Don't currently use Android or iOS but dumb phone options are getting pretty limited these days.

If I got an Android phone I would probably be looking at something second hand because fuck paying 3 figures on a phone. I know I wouldn't use data at all, call/SMS SIM only. I guess another option is not needing to degoogle it as it will never talk to google once I have finished downloading maps of the country for OSMand and a few other apps. Then it can be on Wi-Fi to allow communication with my PC over LAN but don't allow it access to the internet.

If it never touches the internet after setup I guess outdated OS doesn't matter too much.

Google meet Zune!

You probably should've led with the fact that this is Chinese phones, not like Samsung and shit.

Please, do not post clickbait

Anything closer to supporting regular Linux applications the better. Though I’d expect anything like this to just be Android with well funded alternatives to Google applications/services. Whatever happens will be good for non-Google/Apple/Microsoft directed platforms

To what? Linux? I'll believe it when I see it.

You mean the brands that literally do this already? Pretty bad article

One can only hope

Harmony Os will probably end up taking over realistically just due to everything going on in the world.