cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43965516
It is worth noting that both the hardware and software of Fairphone is heavily dependent on a Chinese company T2Mobile.
For those looking to avoid both US and Chinese companies, then the Jolla phone is the way to go.
it’s only the open source part? normally, google injects proprietary code into phones, usually through “google play services”? idk I’m just kinda a hobbyist
I think they mean Google play services yeah. When i was running cyanogenmod on my phone, I had the option to not install Googles play services.
Some apps rely on that being installed but most worked fine without it.