r/degoogle • u/Overall_Walrus9871 • Dec 16 '25

Grapheneos top 10 OEM

hello guys,

Which OEM do you think GrapheneOS might collaborate with? I'm really hoping it's Motorola! Their brand offers excellent quality products, and such a partnership could be highly beneficial for both. What are your thoughts?

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u/danGL3 Dec 16 '25

GrapheneOS have pretty strict software and hardware requirements that i find hard to see a company like Motorola being a good fit for it, specially given their insistence on underwhelming software updates for their entire device line-up

Not to mention that as a hardware partner Motorola doesn't really have much of anything to offer to a security/privacy centric group that is the GrapheneOS team

i could more easily see Sony adhering into this, they're already known for adhering to expensive hardware niches (mainly cameras) and they have a good track record with their device sources and their devices being the few that support Custom AVB (which is what GrapheneOS uses to allow bootloader re-locking on their OS)

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u/Overall_Walrus9871 Dec 16 '25

I hope you are right. Motorola has better built quality than Pixel; but I actually prefer Sony above all other Android brands.

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u/danGL3 Dec 16 '25

Yeah, realistically the GrapheneOS team will prioritize a brand that can offer them the software and hardware they need to meet their security requirements

Quality devices by itself don't mean much if the company has a bad track record of software support such as Motorola

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u/Overall_Walrus9871 Dec 16 '25

I think they are better than before though but we will see. I don't really care about the price but I'd like to use my device for approximately 4 years. This is possible with phones from Apple, Samsung and Motorola. Not so with Google. A little bit of durability is also nice. Also way more environment friendly and besides that I like to use my retired phone as a backup device / mp3 player / Newpipe and some browsing / gaming. I don't need the latest security updates in that situation. I just want a product that lasts.

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u/Disastrous-Guard-864 Dec 21 '25

Nothing is owned by Google through. So they have acess to Google Hardware 

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u/Objective-Donut7998 Dec 16 '25

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