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GrapheneOS is finally ready to break free from Pixels, and it may never look back (www.androidauthority.com)
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[+] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    If I read previous articles right, Google has stopped shipping Pixel specific hardware drivers down to the android open source project, so any hardware support graphene figures out going forward has to be reverse engineered anyway.

    So that's some additional motivation at least.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Sounds like Google is no longer giving security patches as quickly as the used to. I may be wrong.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    It's more that Google is making it significantly more difficult for non-Google sanctioned projects to operate on Pixel phones and there may come a time when it's no longer feasible to develop GrapheneOS for the Pixel

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    They said for at least a couple of years that they want to expand to other phone models or that they're partnering with a major OEM?

    The makers of GrapheneOS have confirmed they are partnering with a major Android OEM to bring the OS to Snapdragon-powered flagships.

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