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Posted Mar 2, 2026 16:15 UTC (Mon) by cen (subscriber, #170575)
Parent article: Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation

This is actually sounds huge. I currently own a Motorola for the sole fact that they ship almost stock Android with minimal bloatware, if I could load GrapheneOS out of the box this would be a big incentive to try it out.

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Posted Mar 2, 2026 17:23 UTC (Mon) by alx.manpages (subscriber, #145117) [Link] (2 responses)

Hmmm, I was indeed thinking that having GrapheneOS in a phone out-of-the-box would be huge, but was hesitant because I guess they'd put bloat on it (I don't have any Motorola phones).

If, as you say, Motorola has minimal bloatware, it sounds promising. If they keep stock GrapheneOS without bloat, that'd be great. I'm certainly interested in what comes out of this for my next phone.

Whoa

Posted Mar 2, 2026 18:28 UTC (Mon) by valderman (subscriber, #56479) [Link]

As far as I understand from what the GOS developers have said publicly so far, the idea is not to distribute the phones with GOS pre-installed but to officially support installing and running GOS on them. I don't think there's much reason to worry about Motorola distributing a bloated store-brand GOS.

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Posted Mar 3, 2026 16:53 UTC (Tue) by Archimedes (subscriber, #125143) [Link]

The company Nitrokey offers Pixel Phones with GrapheneOS flashed on them including warranty , etc. We'll see if they will also offer GrapheneOS on Motorola when they appear.

P.S.
After to many flashing endeavors on various Android Phones to get a custom ROM on these, the premium for a Nitrophone kept me on Android (without Google).
<OT> But when Google will kill F-Droid with the "Dev registration" reqirenment and Sideload entshittification, Ill have to jump ship, to sailfish OS again ... <\OT>