This genuinely so fucking smart from Motorola. Whomever is greenlighting this needs major kudos. We’re in a world where everyone wants to move away from US technology now and Google/Apple have monopolized the market. Motorola is making this move RIGHT when everywhere else is going “Is there literally nothing else we can use???” Good play esp as they need to up the specs on a new device to handle Graphene. I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
Isn’t Motorola still a US company though? How is this a move away from US tech?
Nope, moto mobility is owned by lenovo. So chinese.
why in the thumbnail is it neither org’s logos?
Interesting catch, weird AI image maybe?
If Motorola is willing to have a non-shitty operating system, why can’t they just put a non-shitty operating system on at the factory? All the stock Android OS I’ve seen lately, including Motorola’s, are crappy, have privacy settings disabled, and in many cases are full of unremovable malware.
Because that was not their goal before, they were OK with the level of freedom their users had with stock Android. With the future restrictions Google will apply to Android they are probably looking to ship their new devices with Graphene to prevent that.
I used Motorola’s products with Android for years and they one of the few in the market to still deliver something close to stock Android with only a couple of apps added for specific features (gestures to turn off flash lantern, etc) so I don’t where you got this malware thing going on with them. Unless you count everything Google as malware, in that case yes.
Now I got a Samsung and it’s one of my worst experiences ever using their “One UI” and it is really riddled with crap because Samsung for some reason thinks they need to add their own versions of every app included in stock Android.
Presumably they could start shipping graphene stock
It’s great to see a mainstream OEM work with GOS. I really hope Motorola will make phones with an actual headphone jack. That’s my no. 1 complaint about modern Pixel hardware.
they still do have jacks in some of their low and mid devices
I would like it even more to see that working on a Xiaomi or Samsung
Sounds like a good choice. Motorola has some very good budget phones and also good high-end phones. All running pretty clean versions of Android. I hope GrapheneOS will support both a flagship (or midrange) and a budget phone.
This is hilarious to me because other than a Samsung once (which made me go back) I had only moto… Until when I finally upgraded I wanted grapheneOS so pixel it was. Very happy about this.
Tbh, not a huge fan of the pick. I had various Motorola Droid phones for years before switching to Samsung. All of the Droids were horribly underpowered after 2 years and the batteries only had 1/2 of their original capacity by that point. Then I got a Samsung S10e and it lasted 5+ years.
I seriously hope Motorola has gotten rid of their planned obsolescence policy in the past few years. It’s nice that there’s going to be a second vendor option for GrapheneOS soon, but I wish it was a better vendor
what would you consider a better vendor? samsung, xiaomi, oneplus? those all have been plenting more and more malware into their phones from the factory, sometimes making it seem like a feature, and recently they started to bar owners from replacing the OS on it by taking away the option to unlock the bootloader
hmd global / nokia might have been a good option
Motorola had made several classic phones.I hope this will be their true comeback.
This isn’t that Motorola. This is the Chinese zombie brand Motorola.
Haven’t had a Motorola in many years. Hopefully this works out well and we get a really nice piece of hardware that isn’t subject to the whims of Google.
i would liked xiomi more but more Hardware is better than only google
Amen! I was using a note 13pro until all the carriers in the United States blocked it the month that Trump took office.
I remember having a motorola razr when i was younger. Loved the design
It’s a Motorola. Supposed to be the best.
that and Wabistics, if i here you mention anything else but Wabistics…
Except the tumor below the flip
I sense Motorolas authentic belief in me as our pact is formed…
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I Fucking love Motorola, I’m cumming as I’m reading this. Thank you Motorola.
Same. I don’t think I could use a phone without the chop to turn on flashlight thing.
At first I though the chop was so useless but I use it all the time now, lol.
Everybody is always amazed when I do it while they’re still stumbling around looking for their flashlight toggle lol
The new phone is going to be called the Motorola Jizzr
Man I can’t WAIT. Next up: Fairphone
That’d be a dream!
