Xiaomi, Oppo, vivo and OnePlus are rumored to be exploring the idea of Android without Google
- Koishi Komeiji
- Kig
- 02 May 2025
Finally, De-googling era is about to be happened...
Goodbye Googleware, they won't able to spy on us...!
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- TRK
- Dk5
- 02 May 2025
We know Google take data from us. But without Google
The Chinese govt get Full control over your mobile. They know your every activity. You can't stop.
It is Dengerus.
- Vasra
- mIm
- 02 May 2025
Anonymous, 02 May 2025A degoogled Android OS is as free as the normal Android, wh... moreYou can't pull out Google Mobile Services, auto-assigned Google-ID and other Google stuff AND still lock the bootloader, pass device integrity and be able to use basic daily needed apps like transit apps, banking apps, etc.
If Xiaomi + Vivo + Oppo + Oneplus do this, That's an over 1+ billion user base.
- Vasra
- mIm
- 02 May 2025
ProMaxUltraAreBricks, 02 May 2025Existing Android open-source alternatives currently availab... moreGood luck trying to run any of the daily needed banking, transit and other apps on UbuntuOS.
- Vasra
- mIm
- 02 May 2025
Finally! Been waiting this for years. Together Xiaomi and BBK brands have enough users to leave Google and that shitty spyware, Google Mobile Services, behind.
Hope this is not just trade / tariff negotiations, but reality.
Would buy one in an instant. deGoogling current phones cleanly and still passing device integrity is near impossible (with the sole exceptions of Pixel using GrapheneOS).
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- Max Verstappen
- sBS
- 02 May 2025
Google-free platform yet full of ads😭
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- Casio
- mGj
- 02 May 2025
Lister, 02 May 2025The perfect excuse for China to isolate themselves even mor... moreIt is Donald Trump who is isolating USA from the rest of the world. China is much more farsighted than you and him.
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- Anonymous
- 0VW
- 02 May 2025
A degoogled Android OS is as free as the normal Android, which is based on the open source AOSP, with non-free, non-open parts on top of that.
So a degoogled Android would have to replace the non-free Google parts, with something of their own.
* "free" as in freedom, not as in free beer
- ProMaxUltraAreBricks
- pgp
- 02 May 2025
Existing Android open-source alternatives currently available : Ubuntu Touch and postmarkedOS.
If you don't want Android or iOS, you have to tinker a bit (or easier : outdated Windows phones).
I don't want a non-open-source OS.
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- Anonymous
- 0VW
- 02 May 2025
Palera, 02 May 2025This would be bad for us European consumers, but I understa... morePeople have to understand that changing the whole Chinese phones export to another OS would be at a huge scale. We are talking about tens ot hundreds millions phones a year.
It's all about an inflence war and muscle wrestling, but at the end of the day, people will have to be able to buy and use their phones, so nobody have to worry a bit. No one will be left outside.
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- Anonymous
- YUU
- 02 May 2025
HyperOS?? LOL 🤣 at it core it is still an Android. Unless, Huawei can fully build they own OS like iOS. But, in the end, it won't and even if they do, it will face the same fate as Samsung Taizen OS and Windows Phone OS 🙄
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- The.Baban
- pf9
- 02 May 2025
If Xiaomi really does that man that's clear that would be my first and only Xiaomi phone, they can't even patch their buggy OS, the performance is not even that great with HOS so if they really do a HOS3 without Google but at the other end can't even address those issue that's over for my I'll return to Samsung
- ProMaxUltraAreBricks
- pgp
- 02 May 2025
Panino Manino, 02 May 2025A good move IKO, for various reasons. And the drama queens... moreYes keep it in China, unless its good and fully open-source.
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- Palera
- mtm
- 02 May 2025
This would be bad for us European consumers, but I understand where they are coming from. That said, would Motorola, OnePlus and Nothing follow suit? At some point the bubble is going to burst and if you can't rely on the US to allow Google to distribute Android freely, something else will have to take its place.
- Panino Manino
- J0e
- 02 May 2025
A good move IKO, for various reasons.
And the drama queens can calm down because devices running this OS will not be sold in all markets, for you nothing will change.
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- Enzo
- Kx7
- 02 May 2025
Honestly they should just do it like iOS, no google apps installed but you can download them. I don't mind using the brand notes, clock, messages app. But removing support for it, ehh idk🤷
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- Anonymous
- 0VW
- 02 May 2025
It's a bit o confusion in the comments, and the news didn't clarify the situation enough. It's a mixed up between Harmony OS and Harmony OS Next.
Harmony OS (or EMUI outside China) is a degoogled Android OS, while Harmony OS Next is entirely another, completely new, operation system, in theory incompatible with Android apps.
The manufacturers in the news seem to explore the road of a degoogled Android OS.
For just Huawei, it was difficult to push degoogled phones on the external markets, but if most Chinese manufacturers would do that, that would be an entirely another game level. They just have to figure out some way to bridge Google's Firebase notication service with something of their own, and some other little things and that would work!
I use with success a degoogled Huawei I bought just for testing, so it can be done.
While I think that would be a good move, mind you, the Chinese are creepy with their software too!
As for the Harmony OS Next, it is possible that in the future, most or all Chinese manufacturers will offer this OS for their internal market, but it is unclear at this point if it will be offered outside China.