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I hope there will be a supported version of Android without Google services for this phone.

Isn't LineageOS what you are looking for? You can take with or without Google bloatware. It is available and regularly updated for FP2, where I use it.

LineageOS for the FP2 is no longer supported: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/FP2

Yes, it is. I don't know why that page says that, but I am running it right now (with microG), and I get weekly updates. Other people are running the non-microG version just fine. One caveat: you're running on weekly snapshots, and these might break. Currently the last known working version of the previous snapshot. The current one (from ~28 August) is broken.

It may still have builds but it doesn't have a maintainer.

"If the maintainer is no longer working on it, and it's a 15.1 device (RMN4 is), then it will almost certainly be dropped from the build roster eventually."

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/auymfy/what_happ...

It has a maintainer: chrmhoffmann. The builds get updated every week.

That's weird. The wayback machine suggests that the page was updated to remove his name... today. I'm not sure what's going on.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190827190701/https://wiki.line...

He just posted on the Fairphone forums that he was on a business trip and vacation. New builds have been pushed for LineageOS and LOS + microG.

Ah, that's unfortunate. It must be very recent, though, because I'm sure I've checked the same page no earlier than a few weeks ago.

They have a version without Google services called Fairphone Open - https://code.fairphone.com/projects/fp-osos/

This interview with the founder says there will be, although it's not available yet: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/27/can-fairphone-3-scale-ethi...

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