Good development

Posted Mar 3, 2026 2:39 UTC (Tue) by torstenaf (subscriber, #58477)
Parent article: Motorola announces a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation

I've been running GOS on a Pixel for a couple of years now without issue. I installed it in about 10 minutes using the web installer on a Linux machine. I learned the hard way that it is better to avoid insecure OSs.

If GOS gets official support from Motorola, I'll buy a Motorola for my next phone. It would be better if it came pre installed.

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Good development

Posted Mar 3, 2026 15:05 UTC (Tue) by spacefrogg (subscriber, #119608) [Link] (4 responses)

There is at least one German company that sells Google phones with GOS pre-installed, incl. optional extras like removing the internal microphones.

Good development

Posted Mar 3, 2026 16:49 UTC (Tue) by nowster (subscriber, #67) [Link] (3 responses)

Without a microphone surely they're incapable of being described as telephones?

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Posted Mar 3, 2026 17:30 UTC (Tue) by crsc (subscriber, #138772) [Link] (1 responses)

If you want to make a phone call, you will need a Bluetooth headset. This is a compromise for maximum security. No sensors, no microphone, and no camera, for example. I would like to see physical switches that can deactivate the microphones, cameras, and sensors. But I think that would be difficult to implement. Smartphones now have a lot of microphones built into the circuit board.

Good development

Posted Mar 4, 2026 15:05 UTC (Wed) by mnohime (subscriber, #174134) [Link]

The HIROH phone will have some HW kill switches; see https://hiroh.io/.

Good development

Posted Mar 4, 2026 9:59 UTC (Wed) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link]

To many of us the phone functionality is very far down the list of priorities for our mobile computing devices.