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My biggest concern is the life cycle of the device. I almost went with Motorola for my last phone, but saw that you were lucky to get 3 years of OS updates. Is that likely to be better on GrapheneOS? If so, that is a huge win imo. If not, it still isn't ideal because I don't want to have to buy a new phone every 2 years...
but saw that you were lucky to get 3 years of OS updates.
fucking great, less enshittification when they stop shoving the updates down your throat.
Well, fuck. I really hoped they would pick FairPhone. Motorola is... Okay. I guess they made the Nexus 5 ; which was one of the best phones ever.
I hope they make a SMALL one, I am so tired of this GIGANTIC pixel 9.
Fairphone isn’t available everywhere while Motorola is. It’s pretty easy to understand why they chose them.
That's not the reason, the real reason is Fairphone doesn't take security seriously. The GrapheneOS devs have called them out numerous times on that.
Also a good reason but you can’t get Fairphones in North America which is a huge market.
Motorola gets a little bit of love from me because they were (maybe still are?) the only ones who allowed me to shout "COMRADE MOTO!" to wake my phone up
I will not say "Hey Google" in a million years. I refuse.
That's definitely worth a fair few points. Always rubbed me the wrong way that you couldn't change it to whatever you wanted.
And who do you want them to partner with exactly?
The only "good" one is Fair Phone and Graphene has already spoken about their lax approach to security.
Oki. I'll wait then. Was gonna get OnePlus 15 but but features is so meh - just pushing ai and I'm not interested
All my phones have been Motorola, the first one was the Moto X - OG !
Very well built and great batteries. Quality phones with close to stock UI for a snappy experience. Love the Moto Actions as well.
Only negatives were updates and cameras. Both are much better these days.
Especially now with an upcoming OS alternative!
I'll second this, me and the wife keep breaking or losing phones and have gone for cheap motorolas as replacements. Doesn't have much bloatware, and can be easily purged.
EDIT : If you hate the amount of bloatware, it does have, compare it to the samsung galaxy amounts of bloat.
Moto X4 was an amazing phone, I hope they bring back smaller phones, I don’t want to use a tablet.
maybe my next phone will be a Motorola.
Me too. I've always bought Google Pixels but I don't want to give Google my money anymore.
So I'll probably buy a Motorola if this deal gets through.
My last few phones have been Motorolas and I've been very very happy with them.
My only issue was that back then, I wasn't really paying attention to alternative OSs like Graphene, Lineage or e/os and was therefore not really too concerned with ROM support/chip set. When I switched over to e/os, two of my Motorola's (including the one I WANT to use with it) has no ROM support because it's running a Mediatek chipset. So I'm using my second to last one while my nice new one collects dust.
Moving forward I'll be paying more attention to Qualcomm vs Mediatek.
i bought a mororolla 3 years ago and it still lasts 2 days on a charge. id say go for it.
Android seems intent on creating a huge market for this. Chef's kiss!
I actually bought a new Motorola phone 2 months ago precisely because i wanted a phone with an unlockable bootloader, and motorola delivered that.
Vote with your wallet.
Just wanted to echo the vote with your wallet sentiment. It’s the only power we have!
This is great news. While I still think we should make a push towards Linux phones being mainstream so that we don’t keep this duopoly on OSes, it’s nice to know that at least one manufacturer is currently defying googles obvious goal of suppressing third party ROMs and marketplaces.
Thanks for the reality check. While this a good development, I share your concern and we should not stop,or even slow, developing any fully free as in freedom OS. I tried PostmarketOS on an old Oneplus 6T recently and I estimate we have one or two more phone replacement cycles until I think it'll be ready for me to switch.
How I imagine the decision:
Should we maybe port it to Fairphone? The phone most of our users probably like?
Nah let's do Motorola instead - you know the company were you have to spin a dice to determine if your device can unlock the bootloader or not...
fair phone lacks the hardware security to run fully featured grapheneOS. Other than that it does work on fairphone.
