It’s important to be clear that this is not the same company that made the Motorola brand famous.
“Motorola Mobility is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong based Chinese technology giant Lenovo”
I hope this is still around when i need a new phone, because the ~$200 Motorola models have been GOATed for a while now.
I love this.
My Nexus 6 was the best phone I’ve ever used. It’s been downhill for years since then… Sign me up.
I hastily got a pixel 10 so I can have grapheneOS on it. I am glad that there is some good news.
Why not fairphone?
From the Article:
GrapheneOS has historically maintained tight integration with Google Pixel hardware, citing security features like Titan M chips, verified boot implementation, and firmware transparency as critical requirements. Expanding to non-Pixel hardware represents a major strategic shift.
Motorola, meanwhile, has been investing heavily in enterprise mobility, device lifecycle management, and security solutions. Integrating GrapheneOS into that portfolio would give the company a strong privacy-focused differentiator in both consumer and enterprise segments.
I get that there are issues. But, if GrapheneOS wants a partner that shares FOSS values, why not work through those? You’ve got a company that is probably like 90% of the way there vs. one that is just another corporate behemoth. Help the good guys get that extra 10%. Also, half the complaints in there are about /e/OS and not Fairphone, so would be mitigated just by virtue of using GrapheneOS instead of /e/OS
From what I remember, GrapheneOS team have strict security requirements and Fairphone is just not interested to meet them.
To be clear, I think part of it is that Fairphone wants hardware with long-term support so they can continue supplying replacement parts, but they also aren’t big enough to manufacture their own parts from scratch - so they end up needing to use hardware that GrapheneOS deems as lacking critical security features.
Though of course there are the parts GrapheneOS said about security updates being late and unsafe signing keys being used, which are independent from hardware.
