Porting phones to create degoogled ROMS or alternative mobile OS images for it is not usually an easy thing. For starters it requires owning the device for testing (at the risk of bricking it if something goes really wrong), and it having a bootloader which can be unlocked (which is also something OEM's are closing off more for the newer devices), as well as having its kernel source published. That said, luckily the list of devices with degoogled ROM's or alternative OS's for them is likely longer than you think.

For those new to the process, the best general resource for instructions on how to unlock your phone’s bootloader and flash alternate AOSP ROM’s or non-Android OS’s is xdaforums.com/
Please note that not all carriers and oem’s allow you to unlock the bootloader though, so choose your device carefully for this.

You will also most likely need a PC (desktop or laptop) with adb & fastboot on it. These are apps used in the terminal, but you only need to copy and paste a few commands into them to use it.

If you have a Google Pixel then the best option is Graphene - grapheneos.org/

For other devices you can use a “degoogled” Android ROM and get apps from the open source F-Droid app store - f-droid.org/
Some choices for this are:
Lineage - lineageos.org/
crDroid - crdroid.net/
/e/os - e.foundation/e-os/
Iode - iode.tech/iodeos/

OR use a a true alternative mobile OS. Options for this are:
Ubuntu Touch - ubuntu-touch.io/
Sailfish OS - sailfishos.org/
Mobian - mobian-project.org/
Postmarket OS - postmarketos.org/
Plasma Mobile - plasma-mobile.org/
Droidian - droidian.org/

You can also purchase devices with alternative OS’s already preinstalled from:
Volla - volla.online/en/devices/
Jolla - jolla.com/
Fairphone - fairphone.com/
Murena - murena.com/
Furilabs - furilabs.com/
Brax - braxtech.net/

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