I just recently got myself a Sony Xperia and while I haven’t delved into fully working on the privacy of it, Sony seems mostly hardware focused, so they just run vanilla Android on them, which I like. Degoogling has been super easy so far, though I havent switched out location services yet.
They are definitely a pretty penny though. I was lucky and got mine open box for half price, and even that could have gotten me 2 pine phones.
ETA: Unlocking the bootloader isn’t available on the US editions, apparently
I just recently got myself a Sony Xperia and while I haven’t delved into fully working on the privacy of it, Sony seems mostly hardware focused, so they just run vanilla Android on them, which I like. Degoogling has been super easy so far, though I havent switched out location services yet.
They are definitely a pretty penny though. I was lucky and got mine open box for half price, and even that could have gotten me 2 pine phones.
ETA: Unlocking the bootloader isn’t available on the US editions, apparently