cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43923170
We’re happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We’re collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
I very seriously doubt this happens, but it would be incredibly amazing if it was the Moto G line of devices. Absolute premium specs are not needed to get a great experience on operating systems that don’t have Google spy services.
The actual functional difference between a cheap “value” phone and a premium “flagship” phone has never been smaller than it is today. There was a time when you actually got different capabilities, actual real-world performance improvements, and longer battery life. Now the cheap phones sometimes offer BETTER features (notably, battery life) because they aren’t running as much stupid bullshit that you don’t want.
When GOS first announced this several months ago, they also announced it would be a flagship chipset. Plus Motorola will be losing a lot of money by opting out of data mining. So I expect it will be expensive.
Nice to have options but I expect I’ll be sticking to Pixels.
Yeah, I was talking with somebody about it, and they think it will be a device that will cost something like 3.3 Monero. That’s a lot more than I want to spend considering I can get a pixel A series for something like 1.5 Monero, or if I don’t want to go with graphene, I can get the Motorola Moto G 2024 and put Lineage OS on it for like 0.4 Monero.
Anyone know why graphene needs such high specs? It doesn’t make sense to me that a less bloated OS would need better specs.
As far as I understand, GrapheneOS’s requirements focus on security features, not device speed.
It’s specifically the ability to relock the bootloader with custom software. Pixels are the only phones that can do it.
Doesn’t seems to mention spec, the announcement article did mention a lot of security and it’s a joint venture to seek out better security for your security of your secure phone.
I read something from grapheneOS saying that even the 2026 signature motorola didn’t have quite good enough specs for graphene, but maybe this was a misunderstanding on my part.
GrapheneOS has a hard list of requirements for supporting a device. As of this moment, Pixels are are the one that has all of them
You need to be able to relock the bootloader after flashing firmware. Pixels can do it and that’s it.
They need several years of updates for firmware, baseband radios etc from the OEM, They also need a robust secure element, this is why spec requirements are as they are. Mainly for the end user’s security & privacy can’t have privacy without actual security.
