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/

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[–] 36 points 8 months ago (1 child)

vendor collaboration is difficult to get right. hope it all goes well.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I loved my Moto devices. The first Droid was awesome with the slider. Feels like another world back then.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    I wanted to finally buy a pixel 10 this year. I guess that now i will be waiting to buy the real phone.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 8 months ago

    This is so awesome!!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    LETS GOOOOOO

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The same motorolla that supports IDF?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Motorola Solutions and Motorola Mobility are not the same. Motorola as a singular brand does not mean what it once did. The former spun off the latter and sold it. Mobile Phones are NOT a product of the firm with said ties.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I can't make a post in group,so doing it in comments and Privacy group too:

    Hey everyone, I am setting my new (used) pixel 8 with GOS. I read on GOS site a lot,but want clearer understand some things. How to set different profiles- one for private and one for daily use. I understood its possible, right? I read another bothering thing,that GOS use 2 steps authentication- fingerprints and pin to open the phone. I am very against biodata, I never use it. Is it possible to leave only with pin ? Any advice what to apps to install will be greatly appreciated.

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  • [–] -4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (15 children)

    Isn't Motorola a chinese company?

    It's hard - to me at least - to believe that Motorola is allowed to provide a device without backdoor(s). What's the catch here?

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    Motorola Mobility is American, and a subsidiary of Lenovo who are Chinese.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    American is not better. Anybody remember Edward Snowden? I'm sure it's only gotten worse since then.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    The US is far, far more of a threat than China even remotely is. That being said, I highly doubt the GOS devs would even consider any collaboration if a backdoor was ever a possibility.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    The US is far, far more of a threat than China even remotely is

    If you're American*

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    or any global north country, honestly, especially in the five eyes

    there’s not much one could do to anger the chinese government enough for them to risk sending agents to kidnap or kill a westerner

    all the US needs is a request to law enforcement

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    or any global north country, honestly, especially in the five eyes

    I dunno what that means. US doesn't have jurisdiction outside the US, just like China doesn't have jurisdiction outside of China, so not a whole lot they can do to you. I have heard of Chinese kidnapping their own people who fled to the US, but I'm not sure how true that is.

    all the US needs is a request to law enforcement

    In the US, yes. Not even that, really.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So does that mean that collaboration is done with American company and not Chinese company?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Simple answer is yes.

    However, Lenovo have full legal and financial control over Motorola. But because Motorola is a subsidiary, it's legally distinct from its parent company. And because it's incorporated in the USA it has to be compliant with US law. So, for example, Lenovo is not permitted to compel Motorola to violate US law.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    Hardware backdoors still exist.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    For as long as major powers control the production of the majority of computing devices this will be true. But as far as I know there are no short term alternatives for completely open mobile device hardware... so if hardware backdoors are in your threat model then unfortunately mobile devices are not for you...better stick to the very small community of open hardware for laptop/desktop computers for your communication needs.

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    [–] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Anyone know why graphene needs such high specs? It doesn't make sense to me that a less bloated OS would need better specs.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • 4 comments in c/technology@beehaw.org view that post
    [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    The rumors are true - neat.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That's awesome considering Pixel devices may not be viable for much longer as Google has been making more and more code proprietary. Hope it works out!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Hard to believe it's real, hopefully Motorola is committed to the long term.

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  • 2 comments in c/technology@lemmy.ml view that post
    [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Cautiously optimistic.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Come on, Motorola. You already have a fairly decent line of existing Moto phones. There IS a huge market for folks who are concerned about their privacy.

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