Welcome! This is a community for all those who are interested in protecting their privacy.
PS: Don't be a smartass and try to game the system, we'll know if you're breaking the rules when we see it!
Some of these are only vaguely related, but great communities.
I know it almost certainly isnt, but please god let it be Fairphone.
It will not be Fairphone but OnePlus
While they're at it, can they talk their oem into adding a headphone jack? Literally the main reason I don't already do Pixel + Graphene. (And yes I know one of the supported Pixel phones does have one, but it also happens to be the exact model that I have personally seen do the black screen of death, so no thanks).
my car set up that only gets used once or twice a month:
Better and cooler than android auto
the audio quality is surprisingly excellent too. stock radios aren't bad, though the speakers have been hit and miss as I take all the junk to different cars. I think there are different types of cassette adapter too. My mom broke the one my parents had from before I existed by putting it in the wrong way and getting the cord stuck inside the slot and I replaced it, but the new one sounded way better in the same car.
please, finally
very glad to hear this!
Glad to know privacy isn't budget friendly.
Unfortunately a lot of "budget" items are being subsidized by your personal information, and the smaller market for privacy-forward goods and services makes economies of scale harder.
Unless governments start passing robust privacy laws, it will just continue to get more and more expensive to live privately with modern conveniences.
Yeah, it would be great if they would support a range of devices from whichever OEM this is, at different price points.
Biggest challenge GOS has is that most hardware vendors do not meet their fairly restrictive hardware security requirements, and those few that do don't typically allow bootloader unlocking. Pixel devices up until now have been unicorns in those regards.
Oh no, won't somebody think of Google's bottom line?!
That’s fantastic. Does this help with the issue of Google releasing AOSP security updates at a slower cadence? Maybe working directly with an OEM resolves this?
I don't really know how this works, but if they have the cooperation of an OEM they should have the same access to AOSP security updates the OEM has, and access to hardware drivers from a company that's not trying to thwart them. I can see how this would be preferable to a basically antagonistic relationship with Google, who are making things difficult because they want all Pixel phones to run their stock OS. The thing I wonder is what motivates the OEM to continue a cooperative relationship with Graphene OS.
Everyone out here guessing small OEMs for an official Graphene launch when it's obviously Apple.
Except that they mention Snapdragon, which Apple does not use.
They also mention “major Android OEM” Which does not apply to Apple.
tinfoil hat on It's obviously Apple funding this. They know most android users won't buy apples, they just want to weaken Google.