Motorola is not known for making great phones.
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Motorola is not known for making great phones. They're the budget phone company that abandons their devices as soon as possible.
This is the phone company GrapheneOS has partnered with.
A total kick in the gut.
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Motorola is not known for making great phones. They're the budget phone company that abandons their devices as soon as possible.
This is the phone company GrapheneOS has partnered with.
A total kick in the gut.
Dam. They made the very last Android phones I used before I gave up on Android.
The final straw for Motorola & Android was when their phone refused to connect wirelessly to *anything* (WIFI, Verizon, or bluetooth), causing the phone to slip from my hand (with great force).
I'm not happy with Tim Cook, but after multiple Samsung, Motorola etc. phones, I can honestly say that iPhones at least get the job done!
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Motorola is not known for making great phones. They're the budget phone company that abandons their devices as soon as possible.
This is the phone company GrapheneOS has partnered with.
A total kick in the gut.
@NetscapeNavigator The 2026 Moto Signature will receive 7 years of updates, just like the upcoming phone with official GrapheneOS support in 2027. GrapheneOS mandates at least 5 years of OEM support per their official hardware requirements: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices:~:text=At%20least%205%20years%20of%20updates%20from%20launch%20for%20device%20support%20code%20with%20phones%20(Pixels%20now%20have%207)%20and%207%20years%20with%20tablets
And they plan to increase the requirement (which will be met by Motorola anyway) to 7 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217056
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Motorola is not known for making great phones. They're the budget phone company that abandons their devices as soon as possible.
This is the phone company GrapheneOS has partnered with.
A total kick in the gut.
Yep, it's ridiculous.
I'm not particularly familiar with GrapheneOS, only know the name, and after checking out the list of supported devices, I remembered why I didn't care for it the last time I checked it out.
Do I have to buy a stupid GOOGLE phone to get rid of GOOGLE?! What bullshit is that? And now Motorola?
I use /e/OS on a Fairphone. THAT is a useful combination. GrapheneOS on those megacorporation phones is not.
ANY open OS not available for the Fairphone which is literally DESIGNED as a device open for alternative OSes is utter nonsense.
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@NetscapeNavigator The 2026 Moto Signature will receive 7 years of updates, just like the upcoming phone with official GrapheneOS support in 2027. GrapheneOS mandates at least 5 years of OEM support per their official hardware requirements: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices:~:text=At%20least%205%20years%20of%20updates%20from%20launch%20for%20device%20support%20code%20with%20phones%20(Pixels%20now%20have%207)%20and%207%20years%20with%20tablets
And they plan to increase the requirement (which will be met by Motorola anyway) to 7 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47217056
@Andromxda @NetscapeNavigator Do you have any reference to Motorola openly saying they're increasing their phones' firmware updates to 7 years? Motorola currently pays Qualcomm for 3 years of updates and only maintains drivers for 3 years.
This isn't a question of whether Graphene wants to do it or not; it's whether Graphene negotiated this as a requirement for Motorola. I haven't seen any information from Motorola itself confirming it.
