I recently dropped my old phone in the toilet, because I'm clumpsy and have soaphands. This wasn't all bad though, since this meant I could do something I've wanted to do for a while; get a Fairphone 3.
It's a great phone, built to be repaired, and to get the people making it a living wage. There's no FOSS operating systems avalaible for it yet though. Fortunately, you can use the phone without logging in to a Google-account. So my phone is still tracking me, but Google doesn't know that it's me.
I have replaced all applications but the dialer, E-ID, and my banking app with open source alternatives. Below is a list of some of the applications that I have installed on my device and what functionality they are providing on my phone.
| Application | Functionality |
| Antennapod | Amazing podcast app, even better than PodcastAddict which was my old goto |
| Aurora | Lets me install stuff from the Google-store without an account, like my banking app |
| Connectbot | Ssh-client |
| Davx5 | Lets me sync my contacts to my Nextcloud with CardAV instead of to Google |
| Easer | Automation, kind of like tasker |
| F-Droid | Repository of open source applications, this is what is making all this possible |
| Fennec-Fdroid | Un-mozilla-branded version of Mozilla Firefox |
| Frost | Unfortunately I can not ditch Facebook entirely, Frost is an interface for Facebook. |
| K9-Mail | My favourite android e-mail client |
| Osmand+ | Replaces Google Maps |
| Nextcloud | To sync and upload stuff to my own Nextcloud-server |
| OpenCamera | Replaces the stock camera |
| OpenKeychain | Handles my GPG-keys |
| OpenLauncher | Fast and quick launcher |
| Passwordstore | Interface for pass |
| Skytube | A Youtube-interface |
| RedditSlide | Really neat Reddit-reader |