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what’s the move? get “ahead” of it and get a Fairphone? I am not entirely sure when the Graphene OS Motorola phones come out and who knows the legal implications that will have.
Buying a phone is not exactly a choice.
it was never your phone to begin with.
The fucked up thing with phones is the locked boot loaders. Locked boot loaders should not exist because this seriously restricts the driver and OS development.
Hoping that Graphene Motorola partnership ends up making Graphene some really well supported target for bank/finance apps for those that make that a part of their required features for a phone. I can live with Firefox. Many seemingly can’t
My latest phone is a Fairphone 6 with e/OS preinstalled, so it came degoogled and easily repairable out of the box. I intend to keep it for at least a decade. I cant imagine a feature I would be willing to upgrade for, so I’ll probably keep it longer than that.
I’m just gonna switch to linux for my next phone. It’s past time.
I did NOT buy an Android phone for anything Google, what they have said or anything else. I have one because I got a good deal and I can remove everything Google about it. And this deal gives me a new phone biennially while keeping the same monthly price which means I can give my previous phone to the family member of friend who is most in need of one and would be most affected economically by having to buy one themselves. I’d easily choose and iPhone over an Android one if they were similarly locked, I think Google (Alphabet) is the more evil of the two, while both are of course not good at all. That’s not the case though, yet at least.
GrapheneOS would be great, if it would just support 1000x the hardware it does now. With the extremely limited hardware it does support it’s practically as good as useless for the vast majority of Android users
I’d switch tomorrow, would if I could
Most hardware doesn’t support the fundamental security requirements of GrapheneOS, so that will never happen.
Look into things like /e/OS or Nothing Phone on the Android side, and the various Linux options (Jellyfish OS is, I think, the most advanced).
I consider myself pretty computer savvy but phones have always pissed me off. I got a Galaxy S22 Ultra because I wanted stylus and high refresh rate, but I consistently regret giving Samsung my business.
I have the SM-S908U1, what are realistically my best options here? I can’t really afford an upgrade right now.
Fully same page. I got a used Z fold cuz I love the design, but now I guess I’m just never updating again until I have time to learn how to install my own OS on it 😵
You should wait for the GrapheneOS Motorola phones next year. The Moto Signature looks like an excellent phone so something like that with GrapheneOS would be the phone of 2027.
Unfortunately, for the specs and special stylus integration feature, Samsung has cornered the market. You can try any other phone and purchase a simple stylus that is just a rubber tip on a plastic stick, but it won’t have the pressure features and quick action button that the S-pen has.
Apple pencil pro on an iPad pro is the only device with commensurate features.
Moto G and the TCL phone are both low buold quality and mid spec devices compared to the Samsung S Ultras
Root n ROM I guess
Please consider donating to PostmarketOS to build up a pure mobile Linux alternative that is completely free of Google’s influence. It’s the best option we have.
GrapheneOS doesn’t give a fuck
what is this referring to, specifically?
Really glad I decided to switch to GrapheneOS. My next phone will be a Motorola for sure.
I would be so happy if the phone they release with graphene is the Razr, honestly might start work on it myself.
So what do we do when they start making it harder and harder to install graphene?
Getting a motorola cause they explicitly will be supporting GrapheneOS.
But all of that is just a stepping stone. As soon as I deem linux phones to be usable as a daily driver for me, I won’t look back.
We still don’t know anything about the phones’ specifications, prices.
Ironic that graphene is developed most for pixel phones
Not really. They develop for Pixel because those devices have the most secure hardware available for developing a modified Android OS.
If the rest-of-the-world can get its head out of its ass, a fork of AOSP with an open governance and a commitment to opensource and open platform, so that every one benefits from it. You wouldn’t need that much from each country to get more resources on that AOSP-bis than Google will ever be able to pour on its homebrew version.
You make a rule that public service can only buy devices using AOSP-bis based systems (or even better: states choose their own AOSP distros) and quickly, Google has no choice but to follow your version, not the other way around.
motorola makes great phone. I remember my 1st Android phone, after years on iOS, was the Moto Z Play. That thing can last a week with light usage, or 3 days with medium usage on a single charge. Also remember those moto mods? Motorola had like speaker mod and even a mini projector that you can just snap on the phone.
They made better phones before Google bought them so they could strip all their patents before dumping the remaining husk on Lenovo for 15% of its previous value.
