I’m happy to say that my next phone will be a motorola with graphene OS. It’ll be a hell of an upgrade from a terrible realme which doesn’t even support bootloader unlocking.
I’ve been the proud owner of a GrapheneOS device for a year now.
A bit of healthy competition is always good for hardware development, and longer battery life is definitely a plus.
I’ll still prefer a manual software installation over pre-installed software.
I have a six-year-old motorola running lineageOS… I recently bought an iPhone (peer pressure), but after a few months, went back to my old phone because it works better. This is not just a good move for privacy and market diversity… but it is a good move for device longevity.
I am quietly hoping this is retroactive. I have a Razr presently, and I love the thing but it’s rough knowing that there’s basically zero support for foldable devices yet within Lineage or Graphene. I’m hoping this enables the team working on Graphene with Moto to flesh that side out
It won’t be the new phones will need security chips on a level with a pixel
This won’t be retro-active, that’s why only Pixels are supported today: Motorola has to include some changes in the hardware to meet GOS requirements, and they are doing that, at least on some of their devices. No other phone maker other than Google has met them fully so far.
One can only hope it’s successful enough to incentivize some others to go ahead and meet these requirements: Graphene is not a company and will certainly happily work with other good willing phone makers.
Honestly hope moto becomes the standard bearer for all at this rate- graphene, calyx, lineage, etc.