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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.
I guess i know what my next year's phone is gonna be.
Imagine, they announce a Chinese phone brand, like Huawei or Xiaomi. Although that Xiaomi 17 Pro Max... damn.
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!
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 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.
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.
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'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.
I hope they also enhance their social media strategy, as their unprofessional and aggressive way of communication makes me question their trustworthiness more than I want, as I think the project is awesome.
For me, it would be the opposite. Their "unprofessional" and aggressive way of communications makes me think they are doing it for convictions rather then personal benefits. The person that's helping you doesn't need to be overly polite. The person trying to get something out of you does.
I got heavily attacked for basically nothing like a year ago, which made me feel really bad and I still think about it frequently. Whoever treats people like this does not gain a lot of trust from me. Also such impulsiveness should not be involved in such a project. No one needs to be overly polite but also not that hostile against people and like 90% of other projects out there.
Sorry, maybe I just did not see how bad it gets. I don't follow their communications in detail. I wanted to say that being a bit aggressive is fine, but if it was really to the point of attacking you, than that is not ok either.
Yep. They need an actual comms professional. I love GOS and am forever grateful to the team but having a bunch of non-nuero-typical devs speaking for them is not doing them any favours.
Seriously. I love GOS and can't imagine using a phone without it at this point, but their social media is a shitshow and a half.
Doesn't seem "it's finally ready" when they didn't name the name.
Amateur marketing speak for "we're considering bringing it to other hardware"?
It's not marketing speak because GrapheneOS didn't say it. It's a bad headline from a site known for bad reporting. GrapheneOS has been talking about this for months and there's nothing new in this article that wasn't already out there.
No need to defend it. It was obviously a comment on the headline; I didn't care who wrote it - the criticism was directed at whomever vomited it up. Tech publications are as much uncritical PR agencies for tech companies as the latter's marketroids are.
I was trying to clarify, not defend. It is absolute garbage and this article as a whole is a pile of nothing, written in a weird breathless style like they just discovered something. Thumbs down to this shit all around.
Break free, implying they won't support Pixels anymore (is how I interpreted it at first anyway), but they are simply expanding support for more devices. 👍