Motorola had made several classic phones.I hope this will be their true comeback.
This isn’t that Motorola. This is the Chinese zombie brand Motorola.
According to the article, it was a little obvious that it’d be Motorola. To me it’s unexpected as I wasn’t following this all that closely. In any case, I’m personally pleased with the OEM choice. I’ll need to do some research on Motorola’s smartphones to prepare for the one/s that support Graphene.
To me it’s unexpected as I wasn’t following this all that closely.
I was following closely - checking for updates weekly or more, while struggling to be so much as content with my P9FP and trying to decide whether to upgrade to a P10FP (marginal upgrades on paper, but they really help out in the weakest areas).
Still entirely unexpected to me, and even in my wildest hypotheticals, Motorola was not on my radar.
They are basically stock android with minimal bloatware for a decent price. I’ve been using them for years. There’s the whole Lenovo scandal but its hard to find any decent phone I want nowadays so concessions need to be made somewhere
I have Edge 50 pro and I can tell you it is full of shit. Meta services, their own shitty services installing crap of their choice, adware they are reenabling as soon as you disable it… You’ll need
adbto remove all that.yikes, I noticed a lot of that crap is added by phone carriers themselves
I’m mainly interested in the hardware, i.e., screen, camera, build quality, that kind of stuff. Though it’s good to know about the software, since Graphene will most likely be the same with its security features.
Their hardware’s usually ‘fine’ not great, but with decent screens and battery life.
Fuck yeah, solid shoid of brand.
Although I don’t know how good motorolas camera game is if you are more serious about the camera.
Edit… Not sure how I got shoid from typing choice…
Their cameras are upper midrange, at least on their flagships.
I have the 2025 Power. The camera is decent. It seems to struggle in low light
Yeah this is cool. Could have been much worse than Motorola. Looking forward to this
While I’m happy that it’s Motorola, i just wish someone like Fairphone also bites the bullet of investing in a proper encryption chip that’s acceptable to Grapheneos. I’d like to see more or a trifecta (duofecta?) of trustworthy OS and sustainable/committed manufacturer.
I think they just released the fair phone 6 not too long ago so it’ll take a while even if it’s on the tables.
I know…I guess it’s just wishful thinking for the future. I’ve gotten a 2nd hand pixel pro last year. That’s…a lot of storage and memory, just about as much as my laptop. Should last me for a while (I hope it won’t physically break for any reason!), so I won’t immediately ride this Motorola wave anyway.
GrapheneOS requires I think a few other things, like the possibility to completely disable the data lines in the USB port, and a bunch of others.
The problem with Fairphone is that they have rather high demands (e.g. long term support for hardware, better production practices) but they are a rather small outfit, so the default answer from parts manufacturers is “talk to the hand”.
As they grow they’ll become more interesting
I would argue that Fairphone with /e/OS is a combination of a committed/sustainable manufacturer with a trustworthy OS. It does not actively spy or screw with you, and it tries to prevent snooping in many places.
Of course it’s not nearly as security hardened as GrapheneOS, so that may be an unacceptable compromise to some.
Now is this the REAL Motorola or is it the brand name that Lenovo got a hold of. Cause real Motorola doesnt make consumer phones anymore.
Lenovo’s Motorola, if you ask me. I don’t think there’s much left at all from original Motorola. But they had a decent track record with their recent phones, AFAIK. Not that I’ve owned any from Motorola.
My wife’s previous phone was a Moto One Hyper. Pretty well made device, especially for the price.
I currently own the 2023 Motorola edge+ and love it. Its got flagship features at like half the price. I bought it for like $700 2-3 years ago.
- Snapdragon 8 gen 2
- 8GB RAM
- 512GB storage
- IP 68
- Triple camera 50-50-12MP
- Stereo sound
- WiFi7, Bluetooth LE
- NFC
- Fingerprint sensor under the screen
- 68W charging
The ONLY real drawback that I’ve had over 2 years is that the front glass is curved and breaks too easily for being Gorilla Glass. The curved design also means that case options are super limited so its a double whammy.
I have a 2021 Moto edge still going strong
I have a Motorola phone, I like it. It’s at least better than the Samsung I had before.
Bifecta?
Bifteki!
motorolas are available worldwide, i’d ratherit be them over some no name manufacturer
Fairphone does partner with Murena for e/os. It’s pretty similar to grapheoneOS
Im sorry, I think your have spelled LinaegeOS, an OS thats not even security based but to support old Hardware which security has already been compromised by missing Firmware.
If we want GOS to grow, we need to welcome and help people understanding the differences. We don’t need to be pedantic schmucks.
Sent from my GrapheneOS phone
If you want to convince GOS users to occasionally drop their sense of superiority, it looks like you have your work cut out for you.
I hope people don’t feel superior because they use a tool.
I use Arch, BTW.
I wouldn’t say that it’s pretty similar.
They have rather different goals and feature sets.
Sent from my FP4 with /e/OS.
They are more similar than they are dissimilar. Only uber nerds see the differences more prominently
There wasn’t exactly anyone else it could be except Motorola Mobility. It’s not much of a leak since we all already knew.
You know, I’d love a razr flip with graphene. Bring it on.
That would be so awesome
Ooo I’m sure this is likely for future models, but I was actually pondering getting a cheap pixel to try out graphene and see what it’d be like compared to my Razr. Maybe I’ll have to wait a bit to see how this develops.
You can find older pixels on swappa for cheap - my understanding is that we won’t see a GrapheneOS phone earlier than 2027 (which admittedly is only 9 months away).
(which admittedly is only 9 months away).
More like 10+however long it takes for it to complete months
which admittedly is only 9 months away
Don’t you dare say such a thing
Those were the days.
This is how a functioning capitalist system should work. Companies competing against each other for the benefit of the consumer.
The purpose of a system is what it does. Capitalism is functioning, it’s just that we’re not the beneficiaries.
I would like it even more to see that working on a Xiaomi or Samsung
Glad to see this. Motorola seemed like a solid choice. Hopefully we’ll get some specs and release dates when they officially unveil it. I know it was pushed back to 2027, so I’m hoping for a Q1 2027 release. I’ve been holding off on getting a pixel in the hopes of getting a non-Google GrapheneOS phone. It would be nice if I don’t wind up having to wait too much longer.
Since when is Graphene’s logo a football and Motorola’s the Super Mario M?
It’s AI slop.
why in the thumbnail is it neither org’s logos?
Interesting catch, weird AI image maybe?
I sense Motorolas authentic belief in me as our pact is formed…
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The best thing about Motorola is that they ship with a very stock android ROM. It’s also the worst bit, because there’s nobody maintaining any software. Handballing software maintenance to GrapheneOS would be sweet.
If Motorola is willing to have a non-shitty operating system, why can’t they just put a non-shitty operating system on at the factory? All the stock Android OS I’ve seen lately, including Motorola’s, are crappy, have privacy settings disabled, and in many cases are full of unremovable malware.
Well, Google wants to continue their trend of spyware and people don’t give enough shits for anything to change. Same as with smartphone manufacturers removing features (SD cards, removable battery) and car manufacturers adding spyware and unnecessarily complexifying cars to make them less sustainable.
Presumably they could start shipping graphene stock
Because that was not their goal before, they were OK with the level of freedom their users had with stock Android. With the future restrictions Google will apply to Android they are probably looking to ship their new devices with Graphene to prevent that.
I used Motorola’s products with Android for years and they one of the few in the market to still deliver something close to stock Android with only a couple of apps added for specific features (gestures to turn off flash lantern, etc) so I don’t where you got this malware thing going on with them. Unless you count everything Google as malware, in that case yes.
Now I got a Samsung and it’s one of my worst experiences ever using their “One UI” and it is really riddled with crap because Samsung for some reason thinks they need to add their own versions of every app included in stock Android.
