Leak confirms GrapheneOS & Motorola partnership for non-Pixel hardware - PiunikaWeb
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An internal Motorola presentation leak appears to confirm a GrapheneOS partnership for non-Pixel hardware, with an official announcement likely at MWC 2026.
  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Lenovo*

    Motorola does not have a mobile phone business, Google absorbed that ages ago. The brand and only the brand was sold to Lenovo.

      • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 months ago

        Phones made by Lenovo with the dead Motorola brand slapped on them. Lenovo had a phone business before they bought the Motorola name and just put it on their phones.

        • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Motorola is Lenovo. Lenovo is Motorola. You’re being needlessly pedantic.

          • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I’m guessing you weren’t around when Motorola was really making phones. Lenovo didn’t buy the company, didn’t hire the staff, Google kept all of the patents. Lenovo bought nothing but the name. It’s not the same thing as rolling Motorola mobility into Lenovo. Nobody who made Motorola phones is involved in making Lenovo phones under the Motorola name.

            You’re playing into the idea that Lenovo can just buy the reputation and brand recognition of Motorola without anything that went into that.

            • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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              6 months ago

              I’m guessing you weren’t around when Motorola was really making phones.

              Brother I was around when Motorola phones were slung over your shoulder like a briefcase.

              I’m not playing into anything. The company that makes the phones is called Motorola. End of discussion.

  • guillem@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I hope this will also be good for affordability and we’ll get GrapheneOS on more downmarket devices.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Hmmm this would have sounded interesting if it didn’t require releasing new phones. I don’t think Motorola is going to release their next phone within a $200-$300 price range. As it stands, this is marginally better than yet another “ponzi your VS funding on the privacy community” scheme.

    What would be useful, if they now have a partnership going, would be to convince Motorola to release the relock keys / firmware fixes for the bootloaders of some models that are no longer in production but are affordable and useful in the secondhand market. In particular, models that see good support from eg.: Lineage. Much easier to start a road towards better privacy and freer systems if it’s feasible on hardware you already have, after all.

  • pasdechance@jlai.luEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This site is a (possibly AI) content mill. The sources are all circular.

    It probably isn’t Motorola.

    Edited, see comment for clarifications…

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053243

    GrapheneOS was contacted by one of the largest Android OEMs in June 2025 and we’re actively working with them. They’re going to be announcing our partnership in March 2026 and the phones meeting our requirements with official GrapheneOS support are scheduled for 2027.

    Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor, and Vivo are all larger OEMs than Motorola.

  • timestatic@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Motorola is sadly still owned by google. I still wish we had the Fairphone x Graphene combo tbh

  • Muffi@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Hell yes! Best smartphone I have had is my current Motorola, and it was surprisingly cheap too. Would love to put Graphene on it.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The thing with open source is that there doesn’t need to be a “partnership”. Motorola/Lenovo can just take the code and make the necessary changes on their own.

  • Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Kind of disappointing. My main issue with Graphene isn’t even that you have to use Pixels, necessarily. It’s that I think Pixel hardware sucks. Motorola isn’t really known for their hardware either at this point. So still good news, but if it’s just another midranger with Graphene pre installed, I’ll pass. Let me use it on other Chinese brands or even a Samsung (lol).

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    That’s good news. I hope it’s a budget device with a plastic case, SD card, IR emitter, notification LED, and headphone jack.

      • JillyB@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        6 months ago

        My crackpot theory is that we’re 10 years away from e-ink displays becoming the new hot thing. The clarity of looking at something that isn’t backlit is great. If they can solve refresh rate and resolution, we’re there.

        • redjard@reddthat.comEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Clarity can also be achieved with a 4k panel. Once your panel gets over 600ppi it’s gonna blow an eink screen out of the water at its own game. Those phones were barely ever made only Sony even tried. Probably due to battery life, or maybe noone realized what they do to the reading experience.

          Either way we’re gonna improve battery life and maybe even get microled before eink ever gets competitive with emissive screens. Someone is bound to rediscover that you never truly needed eink for comfortable reading, just a significant increase in resolution.

    • First_Thunder@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I’d rather have it be a bit more mid to upper range, I want a nice processor and decent cameras

    • snowdriftissue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 months ago

      GOS already confirmed it’s shipping with a flagship snapdragon SOC so it won’t be a budget device. Maybe a future model though.

      I think most of those other features are a long shot as well. The GOS team hasn’t really specified any preferences for non-security related features and I doubt Motorola would suddenly change their hardware design/direction.

    • bitwolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Dude I miss notification LEDs so much. And there is no proper “do not turn on my screen” permission in Android so some app stubbornly wake my screen.

      Also would add Display Output over USB to that list.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Don’t forget when you could listen to fm radio using the headphone jack as an antenna.

      I thought that was going to be the future, but it’s easier to sell music from your music store when you kill am/fm radio.