An internal Motorola presentation leak appears to confirm a GrapheneOS partnership for non-Pixel hardware, with an official announcement likely at MWC 2026.
Damn, that’s surprising. Motorola has never been known for a strong update policy, and having a good update schedule is one of the key requirements for GOS. I hope they are addressing this issue.
I think this is exactly the win-win situation from this possible partnership: Motorola makes secure hardware and firmware patches, GrapheneOS takes care of the whole software security and timely updates (they already do).
I thought the same initially, but Lenovo also owns the ‘Think’ line of products which have historically been targeted at business customers and known for security. Whilst neither of the ThinkPhones currently meet GrapheneOS requirements, Motorola has been improving in that regard (according to GrapheneOS). Motorola also recently released a phone with 7 years of security updates, which is unusual for them.
Motorola, although it is now owned by Lenovo, is still headquartered in the US. North America continues to be one of its primary markets, and it’s the next biggest company there by market share after Apple, Samsung and Google. Micay is based in Canada AFAIK. Altogether it makes a lot of sense to me that Motorola would be the company to reach out, as opposed to another Chinese brand headquartered on the other side of the world with zero market share or presence in North America, or one with any prior reputation for security.
Yes, I agree with you. Motorola does seem to be the most likely collaborator. If they can fix the update schedule, make it affordable and release a phone that’s easily available world wide, it would be better than what the Pixels offer.
Damn, that’s surprising. Motorola has never been known for a strong update policy, and having a good update schedule is one of the key requirements for GOS. I hope they are addressing this issue.
I mean it seems like a no-brainer for OEMs. You can just turn over all your software development to a 3rd party, for free.
I think this is exactly the win-win situation from this possible partnership: Motorola makes secure hardware and firmware patches, GrapheneOS takes care of the whole software security and timely updates (they already do).
I thought the same initially, but Lenovo also owns the ‘Think’ line of products which have historically been targeted at business customers and known for security. Whilst neither of the ThinkPhones currently meet GrapheneOS requirements, Motorola has been improving in that regard (according to GrapheneOS). Motorola also recently released a phone with 7 years of security updates, which is unusual for them.
Motorola, although it is now owned by Lenovo, is still headquartered in the US. North America continues to be one of its primary markets, and it’s the next biggest company there by market share after Apple, Samsung and Google. Micay is based in Canada AFAIK. Altogether it makes a lot of sense to me that Motorola would be the company to reach out, as opposed to another Chinese brand headquartered on the other side of the world with zero market share or presence in North America, or one with any prior reputation for security.
Yes, I agree with you. Motorola does seem to be the most likely collaborator. If they can fix the update schedule, make it affordable and release a phone that’s easily available world wide, it would be better than what the Pixels offer.
That’s on the cheap models. The higher end stuff comes with 4 years of updates