Smartphone bloatware
Nov. 5th, 2017 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcMy introduction to Android was the Moto E and, except for a shortage of internal storage, it was a surprisingly pleasant experience. My current cellphone, the Alcatel Pop 4, would be fine if not for bloatware like File Manager and Joy Launcher which became annoyingly intrusive this year.
My cellphone is now out of contract, down to month-to-month, so I have the freedom to go ahead and replace it. I would wait until the cellphone became unviable but the ongoing annoyance of Alcatel's mandatory bloatware makes me inclined to just go ahead and upgrade now. Perhaps Motorola still provide a pleasingly vanilla Android experience; other vendors may do likewise. I know I'll avoid Alcatel.
Once my current Alcatel cellphone becomes genuinely surplus I would try rooting it for installation of LineageOS or OmniROM or similar but I am not aware that it is supported by any such operating system.
My cellphone is now out of contract, down to month-to-month, so I have the freedom to go ahead and replace it. I would wait until the cellphone became unviable but the ongoing annoyance of Alcatel's mandatory bloatware makes me inclined to just go ahead and upgrade now. Perhaps Motorola still provide a pleasingly vanilla Android experience; other vendors may do likewise. I know I'll avoid Alcatel.
Once my current Alcatel cellphone becomes genuinely surplus I would try rooting it for installation of LineageOS or OmniROM or similar but I am not aware that it is supported by any such operating system.
