That’s good news. I hope it’s a budget device with a plastic case, SD card, IR emitter, notification LED, and headphone jack.
And a user replaceable battery!
And a projector!
Cry-laughing in Tank 4 Pro
I’d rather have it be a bit more mid to upper range, I want a nice processor and decent cameras
I don’t have any use for a “nice processor”. I have a basic one and I don’t have any problems with it.
As for cameras, I think it’s pretty clear at this point that it’s all about the software. The Pixel was winning blind smartphone camera tests with >10 y/o sensors.
e-ink screen! i adored the motorola-f3 with the led segment screen
This site is a (possibly AI) content mill. The sources are all circular.
It probably isn’t Motorola.Edited, see comment for clarifications…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47053243
GrapheneOS was contacted by one of the largest Android OEMs in June 2025 and we’re actively working with them. They’re going to be announcing our partnership in March 2026 and the phones meeting our requirements with official GrapheneOS support are scheduled for 2027.
Xiaomi, Huawei, Honor, and Vivo are all larger OEMs than Motorola.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116148741815778719
We never ruled out working with Motorola, Samsung, Nothing, OnePlus, etc. We said none of their current devices meet our requirements which remains the case for all of them. Only future devices from our OEM partner can be supported and it’s going to take time to meet all of the update and security feature requirements. It’s planned for 2027 but we aren’t sure when in 2027 the devices will be launched. There’s a lot of work to get done on updates, MTE, etc. before then.
That sucks because Motorola actually is great at hardware
one of the largest
The source is not this publication, the source is Motorola, as posted by a user on Reddit.
True. They are 11th or 12th so that is one of the largest.
I just meant they for the other comments just reference themselves.
Anyway, it would be neat to have more options and this isn’t the first time it has been brought up
https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-oem-partnership-3606853/
I would love something with a good camera (sensor & (zoom) optics).
Damn, that’s surprising. Motorola has never been known for a strong update policy, and having a good update schedule is one of the key requirements for GOS. I hope they are addressing this issue.
I mean it seems like a no-brainer for OEMs. You can just turn over all your software development to a 3rd party, for free.
I think this is exactly the win-win situation from this possible partnership: Motorola makes secure hardware and firmware patches, GrapheneOS takes care of the whole software security and timely updates (they already do).
I thought the same initially, but Lenovo also owns the ‘Think’ line of products which have historically been targeted at business customers and known for security. Whilst neither of the ThinkPhones currently meet GrapheneOS requirements, Motorola has been improving in that regard (according to GrapheneOS). Motorola also recently released a phone with 7 years of security updates, which is unusual for them.
Motorola, although it is now owned by Lenovo, is still headquartered in the US. North America continues to be one of its primary markets, and it’s the next biggest company there by market share after Apple, Samsung and Google. Micay is based in Canada AFAIK. Altogether it makes a lot of sense to me that Motorola would be the company to reach out, as opposed to another Chinese brand headquartered on the other side of the world with zero market share or presence in North America, or one with any prior reputation for security.
Is that thumbnail ai generated?
The logos look weird.The GrapheneOS logo looks like drawn by someone who remembers what does it look like but not what it represents.
oh i see.
Definitely, both are close but obviously wrong.
It’s possible they are updating the logo in light of the partnership?
nope, i checked Wikipedia
Looks like shitty photoshop of stock images to me.
I hope this will also be good for affordability and we’ll get GrapheneOS on more downmarket devices.
Holy shit—YES!
Well dang! I was thinking it would be someone else, but that’ll do.
This is potentially very good news. Image GrapheneOS on a base model Motorola.
Lenovo*
Motorola does not have a mobile phone business, Google absorbed that ages ago. The brand and only the brand was sold to Lenovo.
Motorola does not have a mobile phone business
Phones made by Lenovo with the dead Motorola brand slapped on them. Lenovo had a phone business before they bought the Motorola name and just put it on their phones.
Motorola is Lenovo. Lenovo is Motorola. You’re being needlessly pedantic.
Hello Moto
nothing is confirmed here, chill with the high-fives
The thing with open source is that there doesn’t need to be a “partnership”. Motorola/Lenovo can just take the code and make the necessary changes on their own.
Interesting
I’ll believe it when I see it
My jaw is on the floor
