[guardian-dev] where to buy an Android device without Google Play on it?

[Mark Murphy]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016, at 06:25, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> Since Google Play is blocked in China, I imagine that phones sold in
> China do not come with Google Play installed.  I recently bought two
> Chinese phone models, a Xiaomi Redphone 3 and a Lenovo A2800.  Both of
> them are fully branded in Chinese, and the A2800 is actually marked
> "China Mobile", then China-only telecom.  Both of these came with Google
> Play installed.  So either Google Play is installed on phones sold in
> China, or I'm getting other editions like Hong Kong or Taiwan.
> 
> Has anyone bought Android devices that come without Google Play
> installed?

There is always the Amazon Kindle Fire series.

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