I am desperately looking for a small phone compatible with a privacy friendly OS, best would be if the phone is not too old, lets say Less than 3 years.
I had a pixel 5 with graphene. Its Brocken and to be honest it was already too big for my small hands.
Usually phones with a width less than 70mm are considered easy to use with one Hand -even with small hands. I dont need a big screen at all since i have good eyes and use small fonts.
E.g. the unihertz jelly max seems perfect but i didnt find an easy way to put a privacy friendly OS.
On the other Hand looking at the supported devices oft graphene/ callyx and e/OS not a single one seems to offer ONE small phone.
Are there people here with the same Problem? Whats your solution?
I See 2 options for me: either i get a cheap (second Hand) big phone and hope that there will be smaller phones again in the near future. or i give up on using phones with one Hand and get a fairphone or pixel (second hand) again… What do you think is better? The Option to compromise in privacy is not an Option for me.
Yeah, I should be using GrapheneOS. It is the better OS. I absolutely agree. I just don’t like the hardware.
I want a small (max 71 mm width) phone with lots of local storage, a 3.5mm port, card slot, replaceable battery, optical fingerprint sensor, plastic back, IR port and wireless charging.
I understand that I can’t get all of this in 2025, but I’m trying to at least get as much as possible. That’s why I’m probably going to end up getting a Fairphone 6 when it comes out and use CalyxOS.
Fairphone are big tho
I know :( They also removed the 3.5 mm port. It’s getting harder and harder to find a phone with good hardware in my opinion. Makers of phones largely focus on improving stuff I don’t care about.