I never understood why a privacy and security focused project would use Google hardware.
Because only Google provided everything needed to actually fully support the hardware it runs on. Besides, hardware is just the skeleton, as long as you exchange the brains inside, you are fine. Like a bomb shell but empty inside.
Still, I do not like paying money to google.
I guess i know what my next year’s phone is gonna be.
This needs to happen so bad. Very excited for the future of mobile computing. We are so back.
I hope they add supports for more foldables!
i hope grapheneos keeps supporting pixels, if possible. i liked pixels way before I discovered grapheneos due to the cameras that I still think are on top in the android world, and when I became privacy conscious it was a perfect add on to an already nice phone imo.
Good camera was just a byproduct if better post processing on Google. It was true maybe 5-6 years ago that pixels had too of the line camera. But these days, even Motorola can manage a comparable camera to pixel.
For my brokes ass I’m just going to keep buying secondhand last-gen pixels, but its good for the overall market to get an expansion in grapheneOS support.
More likely a shift rather than expansion. Graphene said they don’t yet know if they’ll support Pixels beyond 10. Looks like they may focus on the new OEM and drop Pixels.
I’m hyped! Get the OS on a foldable on-par with the Z Fold 7 (in terms of thinness, camera quality, battery life, and UI featureset), and I’m sold. I am so done with Google and Samsung’s bullshit. If I wanted an iPhone, I would have bought an iPhone. I’m tired of them copying Apple and somehow managing to be even worse at it. I don’t want to be forced to use use either of their shitty app stores.
FWIW, I’m aware that I’m going to be waiting for awhile.
Please let it be Nothing or OnePlus 🙏
I’m glad this is getting some traction now, but this is some poor reporting. This is one site reporting what another site saw, which was just GrapheneOS restating things they’ve been saying since the summer, with no new info. I read both this article and the one they link to as their source and learned nothing I haven’t already known for months just from casually checking on GrapheneOS socials.
PLEASE
BUT IF THEY KEEP JINXING IT???
yes please!
I’ll speculate.
My money’s on Asus. Asus is a bit more mainstream than Nothing but still enough of an underdog that I think they should see the value in a partnership. They already target an enthusiast niche with the ROG line.
The Nothing Phone 3 uses an SD 8s Gen 4, which is not Qualcomm’s “flagship” SOC, and it would be stretching the definition of “major” OEM, but who knows? This seems the most likely after Asus.
Moto’s only flagship Snapdragon phone is the Razr Ultra, which I guess is possible. It’d be weird, but hey, I’d buy one.
OnePlus has been moving in the opposite direction for years now, locking things down more and more. I think they’re too big for their britches at this point.
Sony’s flagships are crazy expensive, well beyond the price of Pixels. They also don’t cover the US market, though I’m not sure how important that is to the Graphene devs.
HMD doesn’t make any phones with flagship SOCs. I think their best is the Skyline, with a 7s gen 2, Qualcomm’s fourth-tier SOC line (the “s” stands for shitty).
Fairphone doesn’t use flagship Snapdragons and GOS has had some pretty nasty things to say about them in the past.
Samsung is a pipe dream. They’d have no motivation. The entire GOS user base would be a rounding error to them.
On a global scale, Xiaomi would be a huge get. Not sure I see any of the Chinese OEMs focusing on this though.
Lenovo and Blackberry…might still exist? I think?
I would love to put Graphene on a Xiaomi device, even more, I’d love to put them on Huawei phones, but afaik those ones don’t have an unlocked bootloader.
What did they say about Fairphone? As far as I know, Fairphone doesn’t provide patches as frequently as it should. I mean, thats not great, but it’s not “nasty.”
Lenovo bought Motorola like a decade ago.
Fairphone doesn’t have the security hardware.
It’s the same Asus that doesn’t allow bootloader unlock anymore for “stability concerns”?
Honestly can’t imagine any chinese manufacturer partnering with a free and open Android OS. Even though it would be cool, since their phones usually have decent hardware
Asus would be nice, I’ve liked most of the zenphones but either didn’t support my carrier/bands or something like that or they stopped allowing bootloader unlocking which is why I didn’t think they’d be on the list but this would be a great way to jump back in as an option for enthusiasts.
Also would love for it to be RAZR, I really want one but also want GrapheneOS but hesitant to buy a pixel.
Let’s congrats Graphene team for supporting the Google hardware for so long, they surely helped Google profit a lot given people buying Pixel just to use Graphene.
They supported Google because it was the only device with the hardware security features they needed
…needed.
Wanted. It was a choice.
I doesn’t matter, they’re supporting Google, they should do the best they can for more variety of models, even if it means not being “ultra super highly extreme private”.
That defeats the entire point of the project, there are other custom ROMs that significantly improve privacy and security on non-google phones. What’s accomplished by graphene supporting them?
I pray that my Pixel 9 is my last Pixel.
That may be a monkey’s paw wish.
He’ll use that phone for the next 20 years as it’s the last one on the planet with an unlocked bootloader
As long as it isn’t a Chinese OEM. Most likely going to be Sony or Nothing?
Nothing isn’t a major oem
Nothing is pretty much a Chinese OEM…
The phone is fully designed, engineered, tested, built, and firmware written in China… Pei just has his marketing office in the UK so he can claim it as a UK company. Maybe they give some aesthetic design direction in the UK too. Pei has a history of lying to make his companies seem like something they aren’t.
(Though they did have a couple of software job postings up recently, so maybe they are trying to slowly change that and do some of the software in the UK)
How is the quality of their phone? Does this person lie about the products themselves or just company?
I’m typing this from a Nothing Phone 2 I got about a year and a half go and I love it. Still gets monthly updates, stills runs fast and is updated to A15. Battery is starting to slip but as long as I’m around 40-50% charge before a trio or going out that’s more than enough. Really like the nothingOS customizability, reminds me of the OG oneplus phones but not what they are currently.
Aww damn. Well let’s hope it’s Sony then (or someone else reputable)
I still do not trust Sony after the CD rootkit incident.
Maybe HMD?
HMD is a Chinese OEM. 90% of their phones are just off-the-line Foxconn reference designs with almost stock android.
It is the illusion of choice that happens when companies and IP are massively consolidated into monopolies.
Chinese? They’re headquartered in Finland and even make one model in Hungary
I’ve bought Sony devices for years, but nowadays the cheap ones are shit and the good ones are way too expensive
