Is anyone using this? It seems important to clear off of standard ios and android devices with google services. Just curious how safe something like this would be. Been following for a while and they have made big jumps but even they are running cloud backups.
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I recommend Lineage OS
Here some YouTube videos - one on e and one on Ubuntu Touch and a really cool hardware phone device:
Android without Google: the /e/ Project blew me away!
Ubuntu Touch + LineageOS? THIS Is The Linux Phone I Want!
Consider using ting as for phone/messaging/data-plan service
Ting has an approach where you use their planner to figure out a plan that would typify your monthly use - that establishes your monthly baseline bill - if you exceed that plan's quotas, you'll be charged for that additional usage. (Perhaps you need to reconfigure your baseline monthly plan - say you're really using more like 4GB instead of just 2GB on your data plan). They also allow for buying a minimal plan just to keep a phone active for potential use - at about $5 per month. Can then have extra phones laying around - say a phone that is just for the baby sitter to use when she comes over.
Also might want to youtube search on the PinePhone and the Librem phone. The PinePhone has a number of phone OS (based on Linux) to chose and try out - really easy to do because it can boot them off of an inserted SD card. The PinePhone is about $150 - it's aimed at kind of an early adopter and beta test sort of audience as it's a community effort that is trying to work toward a kind of 1.0 product definition.