No worries! Heres a link to their forums if you want to give it a peek for research

https://community.e.foundation/latest

/e/os is a degoogled os, so not out of the box. Im not sure if you can opt to install them yourself later (why would you though) and i dont want to put any of that crap on this just to test it. The closest to a google thing it has is gApps, which is an open source implementation of google services.

Second this! Got mine from murena a couple days ago and its brilliant

Ive been learning video editing with Shotcut recently. Its FOSS

Thanks, and yea that was my bad, shouldnt have phrased it like that in the context of this thread. I only just noticed after reading your comment. Hopefully its good for me, im excited for it :))

As far as im aware (and please correct me if im wrong) that is true but the company is European based in the Netherlands, and given their dedication to paying and treating workers fairly I still think its a viable option for a non-US brand phone that is still competitive.

Check out Fairphone! Its really promising on the hardware side of things. I ordered mine with /e/os a couple days ago