Tommaso GagliardoniMar 2

Motorola announces partnership with Graphene OS to bring us secure phones!

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

So the mysterious manufacturer GOS was working with was Motorola, not OnePlus as early speculations suggested. This is good news, Motorola is owned by Lenovo and makes cool phones!

Reminder that Graphene OS is still based on AOSP and therefore, IMHO, eventually doomed to succumb to Google's shenanigans. However, for now and for the foreseeable future, that's the best we can have.

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Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS

Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

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Show threadAndy WoottonMar 2
@tomgag I just bought a Moto. It took me days to clear the slop off it (I hope.)
Show threadTommaso GagliardoniMar 2
@woo good news for you then: once you install GOS on it, bloatware will become a thing of the past :)
Show threadAndy Wootton
@tomgag Realistically, I'm probably not going to do that. I'd like it to be on my next phone but hopefully that won't be for years.
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Show threadTommaso GagliardoniMar 2
@woo your choice I guess, but just FYI, I've been on GOS on Pixels for years and they work flawlessly. Only two things don't work: contactless payments (blame Google and politics, not GOS) and CERTAIN banking apps.
Show threadAlexanderMarsMar 2
@tomgag @woo the first Moto phone that you can install GOS on hasn't been released yet. As per the linked article, no existing Moto handset meets GOS' stringent hardware requirements. Moto is likely doing this to address it's massive security and support shortcomings. GOS needs more hardware options than Google, reliance on pixel hardware is a single point of failure, and a huge liability for the platform.
Show threadTommaso GagliardoniMar 2

@AlexanderMars @woo I agree, but I think this announcement points exactly at the fact that Motorola agrees to produce phones that meet GOS' stringent security features, even if no model has been released yet that's good news. In other words, this should mark the beginning of exactly what you said: avoiding reliance on Pixel phones only.

Thread on the GOS forum from a few min ago: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/32656-motorola-partnership-announcement

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