Everyone is posting this too much and I feel you are “jinxing it”
I’m somewhat excited but I’m still going to hold some back until they reveal who this mystery OEM is. I really don’t want to move from one big corporation to another
HTC! Don’t call it a comeback
What non-big corporation makes mobile phones?
I would go with Fairphone in a heartbeat
They have indicated it will not be Fairphone
That’s kind of my point. I get that making phones is complicated, but it’d be nice to have better hardware options, too.
It always seemed odd to me that you needed a pixel. I know it’s for reasons but google is an anti-privacy company at it’s core.
If they can break away from Google I will buy one next.
Too bad google stopped shipping pixel specific code in the AOSP tree. Maybe they wouldn’t be contemplating dropping the pixel 11 if that was still the case.
please make the battery/hardware repairable
That would be nice but I do wonder how much the Graphene project is going to be involved in hardware decisions if it is a major OEM. Sounds like it’ll be more just a phone where the OEM provides support of bootloader unlocks and installation of graphene
I can’t wait!
Im confused. Graphene has been saying this for at least a couple years. Is there a change now where they’re actually finalizing something?
If I read previous articles right, Google has stopped shipping Pixel specific hardware drivers down to the android open source project, so any hardware support graphene figures out going forward has to be reverse engineered anyway.
So that’s some additional motivation at least.
Sounds like Google is no longer giving security patches as quickly as the used to. I may be wrong.
I mean we’ve known that for a couple months. I want to know if Graphene is actually close to releasing something or if this is just digging up old quotes where they’re just saying “we’re working with an OEM” like they have been for the past couple years.
I don’t know about releasing an actual phone but they’ve released closed source patches for testing. They have the code but they can’t opensource the code until google does so publicly, so yes they’ve got a OEM partner.
