Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device

A non-folder with a stylus option, an audio jack, microSD card slot and USB-C 3.2+ would be swell. In other words... a beefed-up update of the 2026 Motorola Moto G Stylus [1]. ;)

1. [https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g_stylus_(2026)-14581...]

These are expensive and there's the ram shortage to contend with. People have trouble getting Pixels because they aren't sold most places but I would guess that importing a $400 10a would be not so bad if these are the alternatives. The real salvation comes when lower tier Motorola devices get the hardware security features.

$1,636.92 Signature (2026 was not sold in US.)

https://www.motorola.com/gb/en/p/phones/motorola-signature/s...

$1900 Fold

https://www.motorola.com/us/en/p/phones/razr/motorola-razr-f...

$1500 Ultra

https://www.motorola.com/us/en/p/phones/razr/razr-ultra-2026...

This is a relief to hear.

Also this is great unless Motorola is comprimised.

    Motorola is doing a large portion of the work of porting GrapheneOS to their devices. They'll provide us with what we need for firmware/drivers in the form we need it and it will be far easier than Pixels. We'll be able to get issues in the firmware and drivers fixed through Motorola and Qualcomm.

This is not the Motorola (USA) that many of us knew for ages. That company doesn't exist any more.

The company working with GrapheneOS appears to be Motorola Mobility, owned by Lenovo (China).

For me the reason why this is a big deal is because, before there was any Motorola upcoming Graphene-compatible model, most people that might be installing Graphene would not trust Google with their phone software, to then go ahead and install Graphene in Google's hardware! A bit of a contradiction there.

I hope they try to bring Graphene OS to Motorola's mid-range devices, like the Moto G.

This makes me curious to move off of ios.

This is great, I'll hopefully get one as my next phone when my Pixel 7 Pro dies.

The question is whether the new gen Snapdragon Elite SoCs will finally support non-protected KVM? That would make native "linux terminal" (which has GUI support) work.. so far Qualcomm is the only flagship vendor that doesn't support it. And this feature currently works with pixels, hopefully it doesn't stop working with Motorola Signature.

Looking forward to it. I will buy it right away.

I'm fairly ignorant as to whether Motorola, as a company, will make a good steward for this kind of arrangement.

Does anybody have any inside baseball to share in terms of whether we can trust this arrangement to last longer than, say, a year?

Good. Would rather have a strong basic phone without flaky gimmicks.

Let's do a nice candybar. I'll buy it.