Thanks. That helps a lot. I think I need to dig a bit deeper, because I’m sure even AOSP is still linked to Google in some form.

Actually looking through carefully, most of the ones that work in my area are Android based. I would avoid those.

That wouldn’t be dumb, but I get your point.

https://dumbwireless.com/collections/phones

How many of these do you suppose run Android. The operating system is listed in the specs. Do you suppose they are not correct?

I find it frustrating that Manny of these projects use discord for communication.

You might go the route of dumb phone with tethering, which opens up your computing flexibility slightly.