“It will initially be flagships similar to the current generation Motorola Signature, Motorola razr fold and Motorola razr ultra since those will be the 2027 devices meeting our requirements including the expected updates and hardware memory tagging but it can expand over time,”
This is great news in general, but it’s also a bit of a bummer that it will (at least initially) be limited to extremely expensive phones. The recently-announced Moto Signature has “a starting MSRP of €999”.
But MSRP is a joke so I really have no idea what the street price will be in practice.
Considering the cost of RAM next year, how close are you to your kidneys? Do you have a favorite?
What’s worse is that their premium smartphones don’t have what makes Motorola stand out - audio jack and sd cards
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If you have your 1 brain cell left after all those lobotomies, here’s the actual article
You realize that it’s possible to disagree with someone without being a dick about it, right?
I mean, I’ve certainly had my share of verbal dust-ups on Lemmy, but they always start off cordial instead of coming out swinging with the needless insults.
Wrong about…what? The direct quote from GrapheneOS? It is a direct quote.
Blocked.
No I don’t have anger issues, why would you think that?!
Nice. The upcoming Razr Ultra flip phone. Those are nice. Pretty much exactly what I want. An outside display that can pretty much do everything and an inside display that’s very wide for streaming PC games from my desktop. Movies too look great with the nearly 21:9 inner display.
Hoping to see low end devices too. Would love a trial phone. Those Razr flip phones are expensive. Would rather wait for those to be less than half the price used on ebay
Sick
I still don’t fully trust Graphene OS but it is certainly better than stock
what do you trust?
Possibly Linux?
grapheneos runs on the Linux kernel, although I understand the distaste for binary driver blobs
Android runs on the Linux kernel
MacOS runs on the UNIX kernel
I am not sure what that had to do with anything. It is not Microsoft, but if Palantir released a Linux distro, it would sure as shit have mass surveillance in it.
I am guessing the commenter doesn’t trust the GrapheneOS guy or something.
it’s hard to hide that kind of thing in open source software, and grapheneos is open source. I’m not sure this is a valid argument here
Lineage os
That header photo brings back memories.
Same. But prolly not the same ones 😅 my brain instantly says “pregnancy test”
I’ve hated on grapheneos in every thread they reared their ugly head in on account of their elitist disposition, positing that the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money. that’s not taking into account the repugnant toxicity demonstrated each and every time them fucks decide to let their feelings be known.
this motorola thing had the potential to end this. things looked good, finally we’re done with giving money to google to escape its clutches! good lineup of somewhat old but competent snapdragon tech that has wide alt-OS support.
now that we’re out of the “wishing” phase, this thing is a joke. a nothing-burger, aimed at clueless consumerism-addled folks who treat this as rooting for a sports team.
fuck poor people. fuck the truckloads of existing hardware that is more than up to task. only on premium headsets. wait a decade or so before we get around to it. and that’s ignoring the idea that everything is gonna cost a multiple of what we’re used to due to the global shortage and a coupla three wars out there.
nothing changed. fuck grapheneos.
Genuinely can’t tell whether you’re glad or upset about this new development, this read like a diary entry from a manic bipolar episode
positing that the only way you can feel halfway safe and secure is by spending more money.
Graphene is aimed to provide a secure os for people targeted by attacks which need such things. If you dont need something like this, dont use it.
I like the analogy with cars: not everyone needs an off road ford, but just because you can’t afford a humvee dosent mean that someone working at a state park won’t need it. The same way, its great that your needs are fulfilled by a golf 4, but those aren’t everyone’s needs.
Also lineage and calyx are the only real android based systems which address their actual audience. /e/, iode and whatever are worse than stock OS with their integrated subscription DNS blocker and unencrypted cloud services. Calling it anything but a google replacement, as in different name, same shit, is a lie.
because clueless influencers and their ilk are poisoning the media sphere and falsely claiming that grapheneos is the only thing possible and making uninformed people buy this crap, artificially inflating prices - a used pixel costs 4x more than a comparable handset.
if gOS went and published gOS-lite sans the hardware-backed TPM shit - and addressed the oceans of discarded tech we’re drowning in - I’d shut the fuck up about it. if the only gOS users were people liberating their pixels, I’d shut the fuck up about it. if only jason bournes were using it, I’d shut the fuck up about it.
but this glorification is boosting google’s sales. there are people discarding perfectly usable phones (as in lineageOS supported) and getting this fucking thing when the differences don’t begin to touch their threat model in the slightest.
the “new OEM” with gOS was expected like the second coming. turns out, nothing changed. still gonna cost insane amounts of money. still the old, perfectly usable shit will be left behind.
