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Has the OEM in question been revealed yet? Likely not one of the major OEMs because they all lock their bootloaders. I'm crossing my fingers it's Fairphone but
by YY876438726 10mo ago
Has the OEM in question been revealed yet? Likely not one of the major OEMs because they all lock their bootloaders. I'm crossing my fingers it's Fairphone but that's because I love my FP5. The GrapheneOS devs have been pretty harsh towards Fairphone because of their slow updates.
- moooo99 10mo agoThey seem to refuse that they're working with fairphone, so it seems unlikely. https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o3vmn5/comment/nj1km4c https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o3vmn5/comment... My guess is that its either HMD or Nothing. Will probably still take a while until we learn about this
- umbra07 10mo agoThe most likely contenders are OnePlus, Motorola, and HMD. > "It is a big enough OEM that there is good chance you may have owned a device from them in the past." I think this takes Nothing out of contention.
- zikduruqe 10mo agoWhat about HTC, LG? Heck, Blackberry rising from the ashes? I'd love for it to be Framework.
- wkat4242 10mo agoThose are no longer big these days so no. Also, they're not going to restart a whole product category just for grapheneos. As OnePlus is kinda dead and taken over by oppo, I'm guessing Sony. They have some similar collaboration in the past like with Jolla. My Sony XA2 was one of the few models that could run sailfish.
- palata 10mo ago> Also, they're not going to restart a whole product category just for grapheneos. I don't think that there is any need to restart a new category. Just make your new phones good enough for GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS has close to half a million users, I think it's worth doing some adjustments.
- berdario 10mo ago> I don't think that there is any need to restart a new category. Just make your new phones... For HTC, yes... But neither LG nor Blackberry are still making phones
- palata 10mo agoOh, I get it now!
- xethos 10mo agoBlackBerry hasn't been OEM for their last few phones - the KeyOne, 2LE, and 2 were all outsourced to TCL, who is still making handsets. This would also fit with BlackBerry's security image, and even pull in the OnwardMobility vapourware. I'm every bit as skeptical as you are, and in no universe is BlackBerry the OEM in question, but I would like to live in my delusion until GrapheneOS proves me wrong - I want a keyboard, dammit!
- akdev1l 10mo agoBlackBerry has been out of the phone business for years now. They basically sold the brand to TCL iirc
- backscratches 10mo agoI don't remember where but heard it was Nothing
- CommanderData 10mo agoIf you've run a open source project almost of any size, it's quite a task having to support it on various devices scenarios. The GrapheneOS devs are doing the right thing for the longevity of the project. Focus on a small number of phones/hardware. It guarantees its long term success. Excellent work I think, also the Pixel hardware design offers slightly better security with the baseband.