My brainhole keeps saying it’s Sony.
That’s a great temporary replacement for those of us who boycott google until the fsf phone is released
I’m somewhat excited but I’m still going to hold some back until they reveal who this mystery OEM is. I really don’t want to move from one big corporation to another
What non-big corporation makes mobile phones?
I would go with Fairphone in a heartbeat
They have indicated it will not be Fairphone
Yess I know. I was just saying it’s not just big corps making worthy phones.
That’s kind of my point. I get that making phones is complicated, but it’d be nice to have better hardware options, too.
HTC! Don’t call it a comeback
It always seemed odd to me that you needed a pixel. I know it’s for reasons but google is an anti-privacy company at it’s core.
If they can break away from Google I will buy one next.
Depends who they go with. I for one would not be a fan of buying a Chinese phone but it will probably be Chinese.
You mean Taiwanese, right?
Chinese components, American components. All made in Taiwan!
whoever they end up with, it’s gonna be a new model, which means perfectly usable tech from the last 7-8 years is excluded, and it also means it’s gonna be expensive. so good for them, I guess, but this news doesn’t concern me in the slightest.
In a year or two it will not be new anymore and if the same model will be available with stock android it doesn’t have to be very expensive.
my baseline is a 7 year old model with 8 GB RAM and SDM845 that I can get intermittently for $50. for that kinda money I get a LineageOS fully supported device that’s blazing fast, safe and secure against any reasonable threat; I have zero concerns a lost or stolen device will compromise me. as a bonus, it just so happens it’s one of the best supported devices for Mobian and postmarketOS. so, that’s the baseline.
GrapheneOS value proposition is gonna be spend 10x that (at least!) for a marginally secure-er solution. that’s a shite deal.
now if they partnered with LineageOS and other “let’s revive old shit left behind” that would be a different story. imagine if Linux was available only on latest gen CPUs, would all of us be into it? I know I wouldn’t be.
please make the battery/hardware repairable
batteries and hardware (motherboards, cameras, etc) on most phones and laptops are achievably replaceable. not “I’m boarding a plane better change it in my lap” but like half an hour of work, which isn’t that big of a drag every year or so. watch any youtube video tutorial to get a better sense. I’m not saying grams can pull it off, but if you’re even tangentially tech literate, it’s doable.
That would be nice but I do wonder how much the Graphene project is going to be involved in hardware decisions if it is a major OEM. Sounds like it’ll be more just a phone where the OEM provides support of bootloader unlocks and installation of graphene
Too bad google stopped shipping pixel specific code in the AOSP tree. Maybe they wouldn’t be contemplating dropping the pixel 11 if that was still the case.
I’m sure Google is very upset about it
Everyone is posting this too much and I feel you are “jinxing it”
Im confused. Graphene has been saying this for at least a couple years. Is there a change now where they’re actually finalizing something?
If I read previous articles right, Google has stopped shipping Pixel specific hardware drivers down to the android open source project, so any hardware support graphene figures out going forward has to be reverse engineered anyway.
So that’s some additional motivation at least.
Sounds like Google is no longer giving security patches as quickly as the used to. I may be wrong.
I mean we’ve known that for a couple months. I want to know if Graphene is actually close to releasing something or if this is just digging up old quotes where they’re just saying “we’re working with an OEM” like they have been for the past couple years.
I don’t know about releasing an actual phone but they’ve released closed source patches for testing. They have the code but they can’t opensource the code until google does so publicly, so yes they’ve got a OEM partner.
I can’t wait!
