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This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry (lifehacker.com)
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[โ€“] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I have Ubuntu touch installed on my pixel 3a xl. On the phone i can install waydroid with gapps which will allow you to install googleplay store. You should be able to run those apps, i don't use googleplay store though so your experiences may vary, just installed it to see if i could.. All i can say is give it a go. There are some other phones on the market you could buy and try it out.

On Ubuntu Touch i installed waydroid through the openstore then in terminal i had to use this command to run waydroid with gapps. sudo waydroid init -f -s GAPPS good resource on waydroid https://docs.waydro.id/

[โ€“] innermachine@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Thanks a ton! Saved this comment as I do have a couple old phones kicking around I could try to experiment on that aren't terribly outdated. If I can get a bank app to work on one I'll run it as my daily ! Ive been hesitant about Ubuntu touch because it seemed adoptions low and I worried about lack of features, but I would like to get out of dooms rolling as much so something's probably just as well without ..