Not sure if this is even worthy of a post, but I'm in the market for a new phone now and I only see Huawei, Google (specifically the Pixel, because you can't avoid Android really) and Apple on my boycott list. No gimmicky "privacy" phones (Librem etc), I need something fairly normie.
Recommend apps too if you have any suggestions, I use Microsoft everything currently.
Depending on what your goal is there's some choices. If you want to avoid something made in China, there's not much. Samsung generally doesn't as well as the limited selecton of Asus phones. Otherwise, I've generally liked my Motorola and Nokia phones. Yes, Nokia is still around and I was super happy with my Nokia 7.1 until I broke the screen, a particular bargain for $250 at the time. I currently have a Motorola One Action (also $250) and I liked the Nokia better, but it's still a fine phone.
So in short, if having a top-of-the-line phone is super important to you, I'd get a Samsung Galaxy S20. If you're like me and want something cheap and decent but are not a power user then I'd check out the Nokia 7.2.
All of this is Android, but I just disable as much Google as I can. If I ever get to the point I feel I really need to hide then having any cell phone is a bad idea.
Yeah, I was hoping that would take off. I lived just a few miles from that factory at the time. It might have but they sold the phones division off to China.
I've had more Motorola phones than anything and pre-Lenovo I'd recommend their smartphones backwards and forwards. The Lenovo one I have now is not a bad phone at it's price point, but it's not like they used to be.
what do you mean? I would much rather give my data to Chinese than to google or apple
I mean if trying to avoid Chinese manufacture. Phones are almost totally made in China.
Avoiding Apple and Google while meeting OP's requirements is pretty much totally impossible. Perhaps Lineage OS would be the closest you can get, and it's still Android but the open source parts.
Avoiding China is pointless anyway, I'll probably install the Epic app onto it to party with my friends, and as everyone here will remind me, they're owned by Tencent so I'll be compromised by the CCP regardless.
I didn't know Nokia were still around, honestly. Last time I heard, they werè making those terrible Windows Phones. I remember when I had one. Awful.
I was thinking about a Galaxy but I had really bad experiences owning Samsung phones so far.