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[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 hour ago

Holy Hell!

This definitely will be on my shopping list. At the top. I hope they bring to all devices and not only higher end.

This news aligns quite well with the Levovo T series ThinkPad repairability.

Other major tech companies sail towards more and more closed environments.

[–] sommerset@thelemmy.club 7 points 6 hours ago

When is it gonna come out?

[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gnate@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Oh, they will.

[–] Kriznick@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago

Whelp, looks like I'm going to Motorola

[–] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 69 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Good, good. Next, tell me there will be a 3.5mm headphone jack, swappable SD card, and user-replaceable battery and we'll be golden.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 17 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

There will be a 3.5mm headphone jack, swappable SD card, and user-replaceable battery.

[–] mikedd@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

Help, I have turned to gold and cannot move or turn back.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 hours ago

You bastard!

[–] ernest314@lemmy.zip 19 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

their phones do tend to have that already...

e: at least the lower end ones I've had

[–] AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

So interesting to me that it's the lower end phones that have the features I want

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

It's mostly to achieve higher IP ratings, and people with expensive phones also tend to pay for things like cloud storage upgrades and expensive bluetooth earbuds.

[–] emb@lemmy.world 145 points 23 hours ago (5 children)

Hopefully this initiative sticks, sounds like my next phone (eventually) might just be Motorola/Graphene.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Historically, the problem with Motorola hasn't been their os, it's been their hardware, it's just usually not very good when compared to the competition. And often the price is higher for what you're getting.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 34 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

As long as they have basic shit like NFC or wireless charging. One of the main reasons I stopped buying them. 2nd was the tablet sized screens.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 34 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Because its grapheneos you will likely have NFC, but whether you have tap-for-payment options will be a crapshoot, especially in North America, unless having an official vendor changes things with grapheneos's play store integrity issue (which is doubtful).

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Tap to pay is whatever but I do use NFC for some home automatons.

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What you use for home automation if you're into open source and security?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I use the term home automation loosely. Mostly I use it for initiating Tasker scripts at home with a single tap.

[–] batmaniam@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Do you have tasker on grapheneOS?

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[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Best shot is that EU will make it possible, as they distance themselves from US tech right now.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 7 points 17 hours ago

Its an issue that, currently, banks have to resolve by either developing (see certain EU banks that have done so) or supporting an NFC card management app that doesn't require the highest level of the google play security thing to function.

I doubt EU legislation can fix this, and I doubt Canadian banks will care enough to do anything to support anything beyond apple pay and google pay.

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[–] arch@programming.dev 4 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Omg omg. What to do. My old Pix does not fit me anymore. For last 2 month I planned to get new Pix 10 XL. And just out of the blue, this. Should I wait another year for a new Moto?! That's tempting. Although the first gen of new moto devices might be buggy etc.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 1 points 54 minutes ago

Before it was Pixel, the Nexus phones were sometimes made by Moto. I'd wait. They were great phones, and I've used moto on Android recently when the pixel prices went too high for my budget at that time. Was very happy with it, and got a lot of use out of it. I don't expect buggy when graphene support switches.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 minutes ago

Lemme know when fairphone has a re-lockable bootloader to allow for choice of OS.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Moto have been making phones for as long as there has been phones. Software issues would get fixed. I don't think hardware issues are likely.

The biggest risk is Google being evil and cutting both of them off from the Android source code or refusing to sign the releases. Google already refuse signing releases for GrapheneOS on the pixel.

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 19 points 12 hours ago

Google already refuse signing releases for GrapheneOS on the pixel.

Do you mean how you get a special boot screen implying you're doing something sketchy?

Google signing things is not something we want. We want phones that don't care if your OS is signed by Google, and banking apps that trust you to pick an OS.

[–] razen@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

One of the main thing id size of phones, pixel has a series which are comparitevely smaller but I dont know if Moto has any small phones. If only moto make a small phone too, it will be awesome

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They have folding phones that's are smallish

[–] Betchisan@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

I'd rather a 6 inches and under small phone than a folderble.

[–] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml 63 points 23 hours ago

Damn, Motorola may really make a comeback with this!

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 42 points 22 hours ago

Well yeah. I doubt the GrapheneOS team would allow anything less.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 51 points 23 hours ago

Fantastic. Excellent news! I would expect nothing less.

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 12 points 19 hours ago
[–] v4c4@lemmy.ca 34 points 23 hours ago (10 children)

Probably a long shot, but I wish they added a headphone jack and sd card to these phones. These features would also benefit privacy.

[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 27 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Actually, a few of the Motorola phones do have headphone jacks and sd card ports, like the moto G. Which is why I'm really, really hoping those are the models supported.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago (5 children)
[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I too am curious, imo the headphone jack removal was the first sign of enshitification.

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