There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

20 days ago by ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to c/technology

@tranquil_cassowary@infosec.exchange @ocelot221@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca @mulchmaxxing@blahaj.zone There's a high chance of devices being sold with it preinstalled in 2027 but probably not for the initial launch.

davel 17 points 20 days ago

uh what

i used to be with it but then they changed what it was now what I’m with isn’t it anymore and what’s it seems weird and scary to me

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yogthos 8 points 20 days ago

I originally meant to post to GrapheneOS community, but it only allows mods to post, and then I forgot to add GrapheneOS in the title 🤣

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EmmiLime 8 points 19 days ago

It won't happen to me

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Hamartia 4 points 20 days ago

Clearly you left your onion at home.

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mattyroses 2 points 18 days ago

As was the tor address at the time

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Hamartia 1 point 18 days ago

Beautiful

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eldavi 2 points 19 days ago

did it get worse somehow?

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dragospirvu75 10 points 19 days ago

For now, only Motorola flagships will be sold in 2027 with GrapeheneOS.

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eldavi 6 points 19 days ago

and not just any flagship -- it's ultra high priced folding one.

edit: i was wrong, it's a regular phone

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Cowbee 4 points 19 days ago

Nah, it's a slab phone.

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eldavi 3 points 19 days ago

i'm glad and surprised to learn this since the articles suggested it was a folding phone.

do have the article that says so handy for sharing?

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Cowbee 6 points 19 days ago

It's the Signature 27 I believe. Still expensive, just not a foldable.

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protogen420 3 points 18 days ago

lol, my god, at this point I rather take the fairphone with PMOS, or the pixel with GOS, regardless both are non existent in my local market so I am stuck using Lineage on a old Motorola phone (I did check for PMOS support, and even got it booting but couldn't get the screen to work)

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eldavi 1 point 17 days ago

how do you use a phone wo a screen?

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protogen420 1 point 17 days ago

I don't, I have been using Lineage on it instead which has the screen working

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Sapphy 4 points 19 days ago

How would they guarantee the device hasn't been tampered with? Sure you could use Auditor, but still…

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protogen420 4 points 18 days ago

you probably can just reflash GOS on it manually, but for hardware or firmware backdoors/tampering, you are out of luck for any device really

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Hiro8811 2 points 19 days ago

No? GOS said they'll support them not that it'll came preinstalled, ehy would Motorola go through the hassle of installing it?

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Digit 2 points 18 days ago

I have not had a mobile phone since the Snowden confirmation.

GrapheneOS is the first thing to give me serious consideration of getting one [despite the remaining issues].

Preinstalled devices, increases chance of a snap purchase.

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moldy_rice -4 points 19 days ago

That's been a thing for years

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yogthos 10 points 19 days ago

It hasn't been a thing direct from phone manufacturers. It's just been people flashing phones and reselling them.

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moldy_rice 1 point 18 days ago

What's the difference to the consumer?

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yogthos 3 points 18 days ago

One obvious difference is that there will be official support for GrapheneOS from a hardware vendor. It also means a lot more people are likely to get these phones because most people aren't going to buy a refurbished one just to get GrapheneOS. So, it moves it closer to the mainstream, and that would make it harder for Google to cut off store access as well.

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Clark -5 points 19 days ago

If it's not preinstalled, I'm not buying it because there is a risk of injecting a virus along with its installation

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davidgro 8 points 19 days ago

Why would you download the Graphene image from a place that might have viruses, instead of the official site?

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Clark 1 point 19 days ago

During that time you will have stock Android on your phone, which is Google, such an evil company. You can't be sure that you won't get any virus

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davidgro 2 points 19 days ago

Malware isn't the same as viruses. Anyway, just don't log in to anything on it until you can wipe and install Graphene. That will fix the issue.

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Clark 0 points 19 days ago

Still, I wouldn't trust it

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