Motorola's 2027 flagships will officially support GrapheneOS
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personally i think Moto G Power is gonna be a beast with GOS
Dual sim slots sd card headphone jack insane battery
I'm still looking for a solution after https://keepandroidopen.org/
About 50% of my apps are from F-Droid (the others are specific local apps and especially bank apps, which is difficult ...)
I'll believe it when the roms hit xda.
Excited, sure, just hesitant. No buy until it's truth.
Signature? So when - In January?
I wouldn’t mind it coming to an updated ThinkPhone.
Okay good, they clarified that they won’t ship with it. I’ve seen people saying they will but I never read anything from Graphene or Moto stating that.
Wouldn't it be better if it DID? Wouldn't that get around all the "tamper" detection stuff?
Right now I have Google Play disabled in my owner profile, but it would be nice if apps in secondary profiles could pass the full Play Integrity checks... even though I'm actively trying to transition away from them.
For example Cisco DUO says my device with GrapheneOS installed has been tampered with, and I was hoping that would go away if I could just buy the phone with GrapheneOS installed.
In the long term, yes it would be better if it shipped.
However, if someone went to a phone store with a stock graphene on display and anything else next to it, which one do you think they'll choose?
Until Graphene's stock experience (i.e stock apps and launcher) mature enough to not look out of place next to google and apple, the average Joe will pick the more polished phone. I hope improving that is a task Motorola will be able to help with, while graphene keeps doing their thing.
Additionally with the app/play store dualopoly, Motorola would be shooting them selves in the foot if they didn't ship with the play store.
Getting an option beside a pixel for Grapheneos is pretty cool and a big step forward. I hope new demand will be high enough to show the decision makers that its an endeavor worth continuing.
Given the past couple years I'd like to think the fraction to choose graphene would be multiple times what it would have been 5-10 years ago. But not close to a majority.
I believe the play services agreement
MotorolaLenovo signs to get the play store on their devices would forbid that.It wouldn't go away. It will only go away if Google signs grapheneos images. Grapheneos on all supported devices support the required attestation already. It is just Google pettiness.
Yes sure. I was merely commenting on the misunderstanding surrounding this.
whistles
They make a $2,600 smartphone?
I'd bet that about half the price is just the RAM soldered onto the thing
It's gonna be a premium for the folding feature or some other feature on that particular model --- they list two other models that are considerably less expensive and have the same amount of RAM.
I think the foldables are all somewhere along those lines. New tech, and double the screen and such adds up.
Sign me up for a graphene razr ultra please and thank you. Dont have any issue with self install if it doesnt ship that way
Honestly? Kinda prefer it.
Hope an updated clicks keyboard comes out for it.
Would be the most interesting usable android phone since the LG V20 IMO
I love graphene, but I hope they're planning to also roll out some very strong stock software - or else this will make for a very rough first impression on a large audience of normies and hurt graphene's long run chance of success. The camera, gallery, and app store in particular will not come up to many users' standards.
My impression from the article is that the Motorola phones ship with default Android, but flashing to GrapheneOS is officially supported. So it would only be people who would be flashing GrapheneOS anyway.
Yeah by "switch to" they probably do mean flash. I could have sworn they had plans to ship Graphene phones but maybe that's a later phase.
Would you trust a pre-flashed phone though?
I guess with GOS they have integrity checkers.
They do. They say it in their roadmap:
https://grapheneos.org/faq#roadmap
There are some third party vendors online that ship pre-flashed GrapheneOS phones iirc, but I don't believe there has ever been on with it factory installed.
I would never trust a pre flashed Graphene phone. Always flash yourself for security.
I agree, you should always flash it yourself. Though GrapheneOS does have the Auditor app to attest the integrity of the operating system against another GrapheneOS device. It's always going to be best practice to do it yourself, however.
Motorola should be able to lead them into the right direction for this. Moto controls their own drivers and while i don't know, i don't expect they're using stock android camera, they can probably just provide the camera app to graphene
There are some really talented people working on the camera systems for Apple and Google etc. what I don’t get is surely there are some equally talented engineers (in image processing) who love open source so why aren’t they working on an open source camera platform?
It seems an itch that’s not getting scratched.
idk if this is the case here but on a firmware level, interfacing with these camera chips almost always requires an NDA that they'll only sign with very large minimum orders
They need to support it on the Moto G phones so people can actually afford them.
iirc, as of right now, its only the expensive processors that meet the security standards GrapheneOS has. Therefore only being available in the future high-end Motorola phones.
Exactly. Graphene is not for the poors, still. Even used phones that can run it can be pricey.
I got a deal on a new 9 from my carrier for $5 a month for 24 months.
$120 CAD.
But, in canada, the phones come carrier unlocked and had no issue flashing it. Though i only ever powered it on once before it was flashed - to turn on oem unlocking. The sim was not used until then. So it didn't do any auto downloads that might have caused a problem.
Long short: you can find them cheap if you look.
What are the odds that it filters down?
I'll pick up a cheap android and put Lineage on it before I buy another flagship phone.
I was looking at the lowest end pixel for Graphene (Pixel 7) and they are still nearly $400 on the aftermarket. It’s insane.
I got a 7 Pro around 6 months ago for $280 CAD. Surely there are other less expensive sources you could find.
Where are you looking? I see Pixel 8s, used and unlocked, on ebay for $200-300.
Most of the Pixel 7s on Swappa are just under US$200 at this moment.
Anecdotally I bought a used pixel 9a last year for ~$350, could be regional or due to ongoing inflation though
I bought a new in box old stock Pixel 9a for $350 USD a couple months ago from eBay. This was just before that Cop City protestor gave a duress password to border patrol, I wonder if that caused a bit of a spike in demand for old Pixels?
I’m guessing inflation and the tech related bullshit. Everyone marking shit up.
Yeah, there are very few cases that would make me fork hundreds of Euros for a frigging phone.
Man, I would be all over the is of it was on lower end models so I can run graphene as my sketchy international travel phone. But I don't really want to pay flagship prices for that. And I still believe in having a curated primary digital fingerprint.
Could you please elaborate? I know what digital footprint is, minimizing and compartmentalization techniques, but not primary and curated digital footprint.
Functional and hypothetical only example usage of a curated digital footprint, for story purposes:
You keep, use, maintain, and preferably daily drive technology interfacing gizmos in a manner that results in a footprint where the conclusions drawn from it resolve to a "curated" set of... whatever the beholder is looking to ID from the footprint.
Functional example:
You keep and use devices in a manner that is at most "normie+".
You own a Pixel Phone but keep stock android on it and add just enough to it not make you hate your life. You use a couple of normal sub services.
You still show some of your silly, like use an account on a porn website that federates with the world you care to socialize with. You still post how The Man better watch out.
Same as everyone else. The fingerprint looks like what you want it to look like.
So that it remains separate from what could happen/be happening elsewhere inside a Faraday cage with other devices there. How they are configured like, or who they talk to, the networks you utilize and the level of silly you display in your other accounts that have never so much as shared a trace route in passing together.
That's hypothetically separate from the curated digital identity, depending on how careful and good at it your set up was.
So when the friendly folks with the mass surveillance pull up your file, it's composed of what you wanted there to begin with.
It's just another implementation layer of minimizing and compartmentalization, really.
Hypothetically. For a friend.
Having no footprint is as obvious as having a unique one. It's easier to hide in the crowd.
On lower end you could go with lineageos, it's not as good as graphere but it's good enough IMO
This is great and all, gives more device options for GOS. However, being only flagship, this will put GOS out of reach for alot of people due to the cost of flagship phones and the current economy. Especially if Google starts making future Pixels unable to have GOS flashed onto them.
Inb4 Motorola CEO "falls" out a 30 story building window.
How about 6 camera lenses, so it doesn't wobble?
I'm waiting for the "whoops!! All Lenses!" Version
The onion needs to do for phone cameras what it did for Gilette razors:
https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/
The goat since the og razr.
Not the same company. Lenovo bought only the name of the mobile division and slapped it on their products. Google bought Motorola Mobility first, stripped it bare of all the people and IP of value and sold the name to Lenovo.
Most people will still use Instagram TikTok and such. Having GrapheneOS will just hurt the quality and hurt the sales. Most people don't care about privacy, best this will do is satisfy a small minority (who will flash better hardware with GrapheneOS anyway)
I use Instagram to keep up with some friends and family on GrapheneOS AMA
Threat modeling and compartmentalization are a thing
It doesn't ship with GrapheneOS.
The beauty of Graphene is it's sandboxing and exploit protections are built precisely on assumption that the user will install every single piece of malware out there. The OS doesn't trust anything by default.
What better hardware? Google is getting increasingly hostile to Graphene. Pixel hardware also seems to be getting worse. And since Pixel is currently the only hardware you can install Graphene on, this is a beneficial thing that provides an alternative that doesn't give money to Google.
...and Motorola is owned by Lenovo, which is effectively controlled by the Chinese state.
I love GrapheneOS but jumping into bed with the CCP is bad, bad idea.
Edit: I'm not a fan of US tech either, and this isn't an "I hate China" post. They are both awful countries.
Canadian here, I'll take CCP over GOP.
I don't really want either. Its not a binary choice.
What's enslaving hundreds of millions of people to work 6 days a week 12 hours a day compared to the US president that says mean things eh?
Source: made it the fuck up
Homie, ITS ALL China, Vietnam, Taiwan, south korea or maybe malaysia made. I'm speaking to the level of spying I want on my phone.
I'll take my chances with the CCP over ICE any fucking day of the year.
We are always under more threat from our own governments than a foreign one and I do not live in China or China-aligned country. I'm safer with my data in Beijing than in Redmond.
And that's the worst case scenario. Likely, it's enough of a win for China to have an OS that the US doesn't have backdoors into without China needing their own.
You know the two aren't really the same, right?
That's the point: I don't even know the name of the Chinese agency I would even theoretically need to worry about.
Back when Grindr was owned by a Chinese company there was concerns that data from the platform could be used to blackmail western politicians and civil servants.
I can't remember the details but my point is - just because you don't live in China it doesn't mean you're risk free.
I'm neither a politician nor a civil servant, and if I were, as a leftist, I'd be more threatened by Trump having my data than Xi Jinping.
Do I just keep repeating this or...?
Edit: yeah, as yourself point out: the threat China poses is giving your data to your government. lol
That's worse, not better. Ignorance of the danger is not an advantage.
I find your inability to understand why an American is more afraid of ICE than a Chinese government agency really perplexing.
But, in honor of your concern, I will forthwith carry a rock that keeps away Chinese agents.
Your data is going to the US government and data brokers, even if you don't know it.
Source that China is using its backdoors to share information with the US? I mean, it very well might be, at least it's an extra step. I'm saying I'd rather not share my information with anyone, but if i had to choose, it would be a foreign government ahead of my own.
I'm not sure where I'm going wrong, there.
Not what I meant, the US is grabbing all the information on their own, don't think they aren't. Maybe some of you more sophisticated computer heads can avoid it, but I wouldn't expect it.
They have everything compromised on a basic level, basic levels. China could sell your information back to the US too though in some kind of deal.
But yeah I agree, I'd rather have foreign governments having it than mine own. But it's near impossible for a layman, or person without substantial resources, to keep their information out of the hands of the NSA and data brokers, I strongly suspect, as Edward Snowden informed us.
Yup. And if I were a foreign government interested in collecting data, I'd definitely start up a low-cost VPN. You can't trust anyone.
You think they could do something on the hardware level after flash grapeneos?
I think Lenovo would've been prevented from teaming up with Graphene if there wasn't a way around its security measures, be that hardware or software.
You believe GrapheneOS is not able protect against Motorola? Or do you think GrapheneOS is weaking the OS specifically for Motorola? Do you believe that's also the case for Google with their Pixels and the USgovt? Are you saying stay on stock Android? Is there another mobile OS you are recommending? Your message is not clear and you seem to be making unsubstantiated claims with no evidence to back it up.
Um yes? How do you protect against someone who literally controls the hardware?
Ask GrapheneOS. Thats literally their mission.
Device support
That's all very nice but not many of us are willing to buy a $1000 phone (or an obsolete Pixel) to get Graphene. They soon won't be able to run it on new Pixels, and also the stuff about AOSP updates stops mattering since AOSP itself is nearly dead. The obsession with security chips (fighting the seized phone attack while comparatively ignoring much more relevant threats) is another misplaced priority. It's the old notion of "fence post security", putting a 100 foot fence post in the middle of the desert expecting the attacker to try to climb over it instead of going around it.^1^ And again, I'm amused at the idea of the US and Chinese governments allowing a Motorola (Lenovo) Graphene to be sold if it's really that secure.
We need a de-googled Android fork (maybe Lineage is that) on mass market phones using the hardware that those phones have. Otherwise we're acquiescing to the notion that Elon Musk deserves more privacy than Joe Schmoe when it should be the other way around.
^1^ hpmor.com chapter 115.
Pixel "a" series phones typically sell for under $500 and support GrapheneOS.
Source for this?
The obsession with security chips is what allows Pixels and iPhones to be the most secure devices on the planet. They have some of the most researched technologies being used here. You're literally just throwing it away based on...your link to a harry potter book? Seriously, look at the source you just shared. Its not even relevant 😂
What are they going to do, ban security chips like they tried to ban encryption in the 90s?
GrapheneOS and LineageOS are already degoogled.... LineageOS is extremely subpar when it comes to security since they dont enforce it onto their hardware. GrapheneOS actually enforces it and wont work unless it has those specific security features. LineageOS doesnt solve the problem you were concerned about in your post.
If you read what I originally wrote I mentioned that Motorola had done most of the work in porting GOS to their hardware. To me that sounds like Motorola/Lenovo having oversight of both hardware and software. I'm not an expert in the capabilities of the Chinese state but I'd put money on them using their influence to give them an advantage on GOS.
Again, I'm not a fan of US or Chinese tech. I'm not a fan of either regime. I don't know what the alternatives are. I'm on an older Pixel running GOS but I won't be upgrading to Motorola - once this phone dies I'll probably get a dumb phone or give up mobiles entirely.
Good luck, dumb phone means no encryption, SMS and MMS are stored plaintext and freely shared with US three letters and phone convos have been spied on en masse since the 80s.
For that to be effective you'd have to give up phones, smart, dumb, even carphones and landlines. Not only that, you'd have to reliably know your contacts are never contacting you through their phones, windows PCs, etc, that all themselves have that compromised HW as well. Realistically you'd need to fall back on the postal service, but people can steam open letters, so you'll need directly employed couriers, but can you really trust anyone else? So you need to hand deliver it, but can you really trust your contact to burn after reading? Better say it face to face, if you can be sure they (or third parties) aren't recording, but then Flock knows they were with you and they could be tortured later.
That wouldn't be an issue, if say, the dumb phone existed for emergencies only.
I did mention that as a possibility
Well there's always carrier pigeons and jungle drums.
Even jungle drums, you'd need your own drum-language. If the rest of the tribe knows it..
You could book cypher all of your comms, I guess.
Huh, you're right. I had not realized that had happened.
It looks like it's just their phone division, Motorola Mobility.
Your argument is extrapolating way too much. You constructed this overcomplicated chain of thought that supposedly proves GOS sold out because... They got a manufacturer to build hardware that meets GOS requirements?
This is no different from ZOG, deep state or Blackrock conspiracy theories.
Actually, that's not what I'm saying. GOS is a small team, and they've confirmed that most of the work has been left to Motorola/Lenovo. Given what we know about the Chinese state, its not a stretch to imagine that interference has happened.
And I'm not arguing anything. All of what I've said is possible based on what we know (through verifiable information in the public domain) about the activities of the Chinese state. If you choose to call that a conspiracy theory thats up to you.
And jumping into bed with the NSA?
Damn the CCP for building secure hardware!