Device hardware, firmware, and software are integrated to protect your most sensitive data from mobile threats. With Moto KeySafe, PINs, passwords, and cryptographic keys are isolated from other device data for an added layer of high-level security.

Yeah this sounds like what Graphene insists on.

I have had several versions of the Moto G family and they're pretty easy to repair. Usually under $30 for a screen. Trickiest part is glueing the back panel back on.

How come? I'd bet they'd be the most easiest "oem" to get started with.

All western ones will be on the mercy of google licencing, so I'd guess no one wants to burn bridges.

I wouldn't bet on it. Lenovo is used across North American corporations, banks and government institutions.

What makes you think so? This (admittedly pretty vague) response indicates quite the opposite: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115118480213473033

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Sony_Ericsson_Android_Phone

I don't know, never broke mine.

If the Graphene phone wants to presents itself as a consumer-first phone, I agree.

Yeah, but European ones don't (or at least last time I checked). I guess that would be a hassle for them to keep compatibility.

True. But my S3 ran like a young racehorse when I installed Cyanogen back in the third age, when the orcs still roamed Rohan.

Sony is sooooo expensive though…

It's not.

Have a friend who works at a decently high position here in Finland and they actually are considering exiting the smartphone market all together because the margins are too small and they make easy more money on other things, like 5G equipment. They kind of want to move past being associated with phones basically.

Nope, only from what I've read about it more recently. Back then I was just hyped about getting an even smarter smartphone with a better OS and all the new possibilities it brought to me. It was by no means my first smartphone, and I had already explored using my phones in interesting, useful or smart ways, but the OnePlus One felt like a very big upgrade in my daily life, especially since things were moving pretty fast on that area 10-15 years ago. CyanogenMod was definitely an important part of that improved Android experience, and I don't think the corporation clusterfuck affected that, really, as I did not at all notice what was going on over there.

Using current phone rather than buying a different one to replace it is a lot less ewaste.

I am also going to see what happens with Graphene's new partnership. I don't really like the idea of being locked down to specific hardware.

That's fair, I don't like being tied down to their hardware either.