Andromxda

Yes, it is much worse than stock Android

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html#lineageos

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

Stay away from both Fairphone and /e/OS/Murena. Fairphone fails hardware security in the most miserable way, and fundamentally breaks Android Verified Boot, while /e/OS is based on the highly insecure LineageOS, and it further rolls back security, while also repeatedly missing important security patches.

Also, 600 dollars is absolutely not cheap for a smartphone, and it's especially not with it considering that both the hardware and software are highly insecure.

A Pixel can be purchased for much less, while being superior in every way.

The Pixel 6a is really cheap on the used market, and it still gets updates for at least 3 years.

The 7a isn't that expensive either. I recommend staying away from Fairphones, Murena or /e/OS as these are highly insecure, and the companies behind them have repeatedly proven that they don't give even the slightest fuck about the security of their users. They don't publish important Android security patches on time, and Fairphone even managed to fully break Android Verified Boot, by signing their ROM with the publicly available (!!!) AOSP test private signing keys. It should have been impossible to pass verification, but the vendor conducting the verification seems to be just as incompetent.

A used Pixel with GrapheneOS is your best option, while still being affordable.

Thankfully there are FOSS alternatives for apps like Authy. I recommend Aegis

For your banking app, you can use this list to check if it's compatible: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/

Using the web app might also be an option.

Thanks for the recommendation

Ah yes, because everyone just throws away their phone after 2 years. People definitely haven't purchased iPhones before the invasion.

Works with VoIP numbers though

What about iOS users?

And it isn't even encrypted by default, you manually have to enable that. By default, all your plain text messages are stored on their servers.

Absolutely!

Isn't it deprecated?

There was a KDE edition?!??