GrapheneOS Finally Ready To Break Free From Pixels
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/16/0234244/grapheneos-finally-ready-to-break-free-from-pixels
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> Until now, GrapheneOS has been available only on Pixel phones, making Google's flagships popular among privacy enthusiasts, journalists, and, as a Spanish police report suggested earlier this year, even organized crime groups in Catalonia. But that Pixel exclusivity may end by 2026 or 2027. GrapheneOS revealed in a [3]Reddit thread that it has been working with a "major Android OEM" since June 2025 to enable official support for "future versions of their existing models." These devices will reportedly use flagship Snapdragon chips, a notable shift from Google's in-house Tensor processors.
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> The project explained that only Pixels have met its strict security and update requirements so far. However, the new partnership suggests that another OEM is finally matching those standards. GrapheneOS also hinted that the mysterious partner's devices will be "priced similarly to Pixels" and available globally as part of the brand's standard lineup.
[1] https://grapheneos.org/
[2] https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/
[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o32gpg/comment/nivsx0k/
Fingers crossed they'll make small ones too (Score:2)
I hope they will also make something under 6 or 5.5'' again, i am always forced to buy the only brand that os currently offering the smalleat device, regardless of philosophy and os, because i do not like to carry a television in my pocket
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For balance... I'm always looking for something huge that isn't a flagship Pro Ultra XL Plus megabucks model, because I'm old and the bigger the screen the more easily I can read it.
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Same here, I am a large man with large hands & fat fingers, I want a BIG smartphone screen that doesn't cost kilobucks
To recap (Score:3, Interesting)
So to recap, the GrapheneOS project (which is famous for spreading false information and attacking other open source projects, is planning to work with another phone, of unknown make, at some point in the future? This is about as vague and unreliable a a "news" story could possibly get.
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They desperately need a sane social media team before embarking on a whole dedicated phone.
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To be fair, being a paranoid schizophrenic at least to a some degree is something of a given in that extreme end of "protecting privacy" space. Normal people don't go quite as far as building a phone OS with as strict rules for privacy as Graphene. As at least some of those rules make phone borderline unusable for things most people use their phones for. This really isn't a phone you can give to anyone other than a very privacy conscious power user who knows and wants to fuck around with settings to make th
Re: To recap (Score:1)
what use is a secure OS if you cannot trust the unauditable binary blobs for the wifi, bluetooth and 4g/5g radio, nor can you trust most telcos who can run SIM apps with very low level access to the baseband without your knowledge or consent?
Don't think you've ever used GOS (Score:2)
GrapheneOS is my daily driver. Some falsehoods that you're spreading:
> As at least some of those rules make phone borderline unusable for things most people use their phones for.
Such as? I have the phone working with my banking applications, Android Auto compatibility is solid, and all of my apps run without issue. No more tap-to-pay, tho, but I just pull out my credit cards for that.
> This really isn't a phone you can give to anyone other than a very privacy conscious power user who knows and wants to fuck around with settings to make things work
I've found that there's pretty much a 1:1 correspondence between being security conscious and having more technical acumen than a boomer-noob. I'd be amazed if you could find anyone in their potential audience (e.g., security concerne
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> famous for spreading false information and attacking other open source projects
your statement prompted me to look at graphene more closely, in particular at your claims of misinformation spread and attacking other open source projects. i've found that those claims are not really substantiated. they're based on other online claims that have all been debunked, a judicial process against the lead author that was turned down in court and then withdrawn and some aspects of his personality and communication style that seem to me greatly exaggerated besides irrelevant. so unless you could pr
gee (Score:2)
I had it on good authority that this wasn't possible because only pixel phones have certain security features. Snort
Good (Score:2)
I want an android phone not controlled by google
Awesome! (Score:3)
Now if only I hadn't found GrapheneOS unusable for my workflows...
Re:Awesome! (Score:4, Funny)
What “workflows” can you possibly have on a phone?
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> What âoeworkflowsâ can you possibly have on a phone?
This makes you sound unaware that a phone is a general purpose computer with more power than any of us had just a couple of decades ago.
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>> What "workflows" can you possibly have on a phone?
> This makes you sound unaware that a phone is a general purpose computer with more power than any of us had just a couple of decades ago.
Yes, that is true, but the grandparent perhaps was referring to the fact that the user interface on phones is excruciatingly bad for anything other than entertainment and communication. Sure, you might be able to use it in a pinch to do actual work, but for general-purpose productivity, a modern phone would be left in the dust compared even to a laptop from 25 years ago. CPU and memory in a device are not the only factors for productivity. In fact, I'd argue for general use (e.g., writing, spreadsheets, l