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Motorola announced a partnership with #GrapheneOS Foundation:

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/ (thanks @llas for the pointer).

Great to see that you will be able to buy a new phone with a #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Android ROM pre-installed from such a big brand.

All the best to @GrapheneOS for the next steps in this! #FreeYourAndroid

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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Matthias Kirschner Mar 3

@llas People pointed out that it is not clear from the announcement if you could buy Motorola phones with pre-installed #GrapheneOS or if they Motorola just supports it and takes some patches.

Maybe @GrapheneOS can shed some light on this?

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GrapheneOS Mar 3

@kirschner @llas It will lead to both GrapheneOS support for a subset of their publicly available retail devices which will be improved to meet the requirements and other things. Our focus is mostly on official GrapheneOS releases for the devices. They're very interested in incorporating GrapheneOS features into their regular OS along with other features wanted by enterprise deployments which is a separate thing from GrapheneOS itself. They're not switching to GrapheneOS as their own OS.

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@GrapheneOS @kirschner @llas

Will this include flagship level spec phones, or just budget potatoes? The weak and absurdly overpriced hardware of Pixels is what's kept me from switching so far.

"$1000 non-Graphene phone that will last me the next 3 years no problem, and probably 4" vs "$1000 phone, with Graphene, with specs that you'd expect to see on a $500 phone, that might last me 2 years if I'm lucky before it's slow to the point of unusability" still swings in favour of the non-Graphene phone, but if that's "$1400 phone with Graphene and flagship specs that will last 3+ years" then that's a nobrainer for me.