[PLUG-TALK] Android phones that can have their OS replaced?

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> These popups appeared in the middle of using other apps - highly annoying.
> Worse, some of them were trying to get me to sign up for non-free,
> non-FOSS things. I fiddled with things off and on and finally figured out
> how to delete the Google account completely.

John, et al.:

   My friend decided to replace the failing iPhone4 with a slightly newer
model because of Google's reputation for being intrusive.

> The phone seemed to continue to work just fine as before, and no more
> popups, but then I noticed that my Contacts list had disappeared. Of
> course, they had all been saved to Google. I knew most of them anyway, so
> I recreated my Contacts list, saving them to the SIM card instead.

   A number of folks who used to use PalmOS phones/PDAs switched to using
owncloud to store their android phone data. I've also seen references to OSS
replacements for the default android OS that comes on the phone.

Regards,

Rich