I am looking to buy a new phone cause my old one is breaking into tatters. When it comes to computers I have fallen for the thinkpad meme and have not regretted it. Is there something similar for phones?
The only thing which comes to mind is Japanese flip phones but I am not they are functional in the UK, nor how I can get them. Most flip phones for the UK market are made for the elderly market, and I guess it's great if you want a dumb phone but a thinkpad is not really less functional than an expensive PC, so I don't think they are the thinkpad equivalent of phones either.
The nothingphones are too expensive to be an equivalent to used thinkpads...
Sony phones have actually good cameras without much AI nonsense... so maybe they are the thinkpad equivalent...idk
Thinkpads are le business quality computers but as far as I am aware businesses don't buy phones in bulk in the same way that they buy phones so maybe that's why I can't find a thinkpad equivalent.. but correct me if I am wrong thank y0u.

In terms of hardware, phones are expected to be used for a much shorter time than laptops and desktops so they are not really overbuild. If anything phones are very fragile and break all the time. I think it will be hard to find a 'thinkpad of phones' in terms of build quality.

In terms of software, you just need to install a custom rom, just like you would install linux on your laptop. What software it comes with is irrelevant, what roms are compatible with it is the important bit.

I have a low end Nokia smartphone. I have no screen protection or phone case for it, and I must have dropped it more than a hundred times over the 4 or so years I've used it. The screen has a small crack in a corner and that's it. I've been getting performance issues for the last year, but nothing big. When it finally kicks the bucked I am getting a nokia brick dumbphone, I can do everything this phone can do on a computer anyway.

But I forgot to mention that free operating systems don't have a lot of support for Nokia phones, although the stock android OS is not too bloated

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Are you using an HMD phone or an actual old skool nokia phone desu?

HMD, sadly

Phones are so inherently bad that you should just get the cheapest smartphone possible at your local supermarket and just never install any applications on it. It's better to have a cheap chinkphone and only use it for calls every blue moon, rather than having an expensive phone with degoogling, custom ROM and only free software apps, when you are still addicted to it.

Agree with >>7 but only partially. It's a good idea to get a phone and just make it be a phone, but cheap landfills like Xiaomis' batteries not only will disintegrate even if you don't use them, they're ridiculously bloated and invasive.

Instead what I'd suggest is to just look into something low-end with as few features as possible. You'll most likely not need crap like NFC, fingerprint sensor, A-GPS and the like. Something with Android Go instead of regular one, a slow ass processor and 2-4Gb RAM. You can't estimate bloatware or whether you will be able to disable them, but brands like Nokia and Motorola are known to be bare-bones and whatever you can't disable in the options, you'll most likely cut out with Universal Android Debloater.