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?
Lfg
Fuck! I brought a pixel just for GrapheneOS 2 months ago. Hoping they would continue the support.
It’s okay just keep using it with GrapheneOS as you need to as support will continue for pixels.
They haven’t named the company yet or shown prototypes, so this is probably a couple years away. I’m on Pixel 8 right now, and I’ll probably buy the latest Pixel that can still run Graphene next time I get a new phone.
Think I saw them respond that they were aiming for last half of 2026 to 2027 for the new phones.
Honesty I would just wait it out if I were you. I really regret getting the pixel 9 (since my last phone broke).
There is nothing new in the pixel 10 the only area that desperately needed improvement was the battery which is just as bad if not worse than the 9 and the modem still sucks. It is not fully bad but because of low reception it fights harder to get signal and therefore burns away the battery even faster.
Plus, no sim card slot on the 10 in the US market
Google also didn’t release the source for the 10, so I’d expect the support to always be subpar compared to the previous models
Yea I’m in no rush. I do 80% charging and I really don’t use my phone that much. It should last me a while
They will most definitely continue the support for existing Pixel models.
