An internal Motorola presentation leak appears to confirm a GrapheneOS partnership for non-Pixel hardware, with an official announcement likely at MWC 2026.
  • GoldenQuetzal@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    This genuinely so fucking smart from Motorola. Whomever is greenlighting this needs major kudos. We’re in a world where everyone wants to move away from US technology now and Google/Apple have monopolized the market. Motorola is making this move RIGHT when everywhere else is going “Is there literally nothing else we can use???” Good play esp as they need to up the specs on a new device to handle Graphene. I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with.

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 hour ago

    If Motorola is willing to have a non-shitty operating system, why can’t they just put a non-shitty operating system on at the factory? All the stock Android OS I’ve seen lately, including Motorola’s, are crappy, have privacy settings disabled, and in many cases are full of unremovable malware.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    It’s great to see a mainstream OEM work with GOS. I really hope Motorola will make phones with an actual headphone jack. That’s my no. 1 complaint about modern Pixel hardware.

  • KuroiKaze@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I sense Motorolas authentic belief in me as our pact is formed…

    BOND RANK LEVEL 1 LEARNED PIXEL DEFOCUS YOU CAN NOW STUDY THE MOTOROLA ARCHETYPE IN AKADEMIA

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Tbh, not a huge fan of the pick. I had various Motorola Droid phones for years before switching to Samsung. All of the Droids were horribly underpowered after 2 years and the batteries only had 1/2 of their original capacity by that point. Then I got a Samsung S10e and it lasted 5+ years.

    I seriously hope Motorola has gotten rid of their planned obsolescence policy in the past few years. It’s nice that there’s going to be a second vendor option for GrapheneOS soon, but I wish it was a better vendor

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      what would you consider a better vendor? samsung, xiaomi, oneplus? those all have been plenting more and more malware into their phones from the factory, sometimes making it seem like a feature, and recently they started to bar owners from replacing the OS on it by taking away the option to unlock the bootloader

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Sounds like a good choice. Motorola has some very good budget phones and also good high-end phones. All running pretty clean versions of Android. I hope GrapheneOS will support both a flagship (or midrange) and a budget phone.

    • batmaniam@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      This is hilarious to me because other than a Samsung once (which made me go back) I had only moto… Until when I finally upgraded I wanted grapheneOS so pixel it was. Very happy about this.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Amen! I was using a note 13pro until all the carriers in the United States blocked it the month that Trump took office.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Haven’t had a Motorola in many years. Hopefully this works out well and we get a really nice piece of hardware that isn’t subject to the whims of Google.