What about a Murena phone such as the Fairphone 6 ? Is /e/os impacted?
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Fairphone 6, especially with /e/os is not an option atm from a security standpoint. But then again, no phone is except iPhones and Pixels (and more recent Samsung phones).
Fairphone 6 does not keep up with standard Android privacy/security patches and has no secure element to provide working disk encryption for typical users not using a strong password, among other flaws.
Regarding privacy, Murena is shilling their own proprietary Apps as alternatives to Google.
/e/OS includes numerous non-private apps and services. The Murena voice-to-text service included in /e/OS even sends user speech data to OpenAI with no local option compared to Apple and Google both offering offline speech-to-text support via local models which users can make sure is always used:
https://community.e.foundation/t/voice-to-text-feature-using-open-ai/70509
Taken from the Graphene OS forum
Any device and OS that uses standard google play services (and therefore its device integrity system) will be restricted from now on. So either go with AOSP+microG or just plain AOSP like lineage os.
e/os is lineage+microG so shouldnt be affected. Lots of apps like banking stuff are starting to prevent their apps from running on on google certified devices however. You will have to test case by case.
Yes. As long as GrapheneOS still exists there is at least some hope. The sad thing is even before this outside of GrapheneOS there really isn't any other "ROM" actually focused on privacy.
The EU. That's where my hope lies.
That was then, now they are very pro FANGS and removing all barriers because they are afraid of tariffs and want the US to keep selling them weapons for Ukraine.
I'm afraid not.
I'll be going with Fairphone 6 + /e/os as my next phone most likely. Seems like a very decent path forward.
I've heard that there's phones that use Linux, so I imagine once modifying Android isn't an option focus will probably go into making that more viable.
Only if enough people support it...
I hear good things about this.
For some reason, this is blocked on uBlock
No, not really I suppose