Hope you guys don’t mind me posting this in this community. Upvote or downvote if you like or dislike it.
Particularly would love a Fairphone. Have considered buying from https://clove.co.uk/ and have considered asking if friends in Europe would be willing to ship.
But before I do, I want your opinions. Does anyone have any good options?
I’m not looking to buy a Pixel nor a Samsung of some cracked convenient store version of a smartphone.
I would look into one of these. I do not strictly need Linux on my phone, but again following with my avoidance of a cracked convenient store version of a smartphone, Apple being hard included.
Options I would consider buying in Canada:
Judging by your choices here, I would strongly suggest you dig into what these phones can actually do.
The punkt phones, for example, have an extremely cut down set of features and are more like a dumb phone.
Volla phones are not certified for north america, so you will not get volte or half the LTE bands.
There are a lot of nuances to getting off the big brands and changing devices isnt just about leaving google and apple.