how about the pine phone?
also, i read this whole topic and a few more on graphene from it:
it came to me that i might, after all, be convinced to pay google for a pixel, given:
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i can get warranty support in portugal (i got pixel 1, 2 and 3, needed support for 2 and couldn’t, plus the terrible story from 3 already mentioned)
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it’s a project independent enough from google/alphabet itself (got no idea), financially wise
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above all, can be proved more sustainable than the other fdroid alternatives.
and it came to me, that is the main key point: sustainability.
i couldn’t care more for privacy, but that lead me to unconventional wisdom which shortened to an extreme says: fuck privacy.
except when it comes to digital privacy, often confused by its other name, security (as used in the other topic). that’s indeed crucial, but the ultimate security? backups done right. which means, in a similar way: fuck security (mostly).
i just need a sustainable phone. and the best way to assure it is, is the high facility to maintain it for as long as possible.
which leads me back to the fairphone, probably…
perhaps i will soon update the op to reflect all this, in case nobody objects. 
and after reading a couple more interesting topics on my pine phone search which i still haven’t read: