Getting Google off of a smart phone

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Android is Google's operating system. It's impossible to get rid of it.

Buy the cheap iPhone instead. No Google on it.

It is very dishonest of the sellers and manufacturers not to tell you this. Indeed, I would call it an unfair and deceptive business practice under consumer protection law.

From what I have learned, at least in Europe, the government forces them to let you use other search engines and browsers on Android phones. We need that level of consumer protection in the US.