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Motorola has announced their new high end flagship phone including upcoming official support for GrapheneOS as an OS option.
Motorola Signature 27 will be the first Motorola device supported by GrapheneOS. More devices will be supported in the future.
@GrapheneOS do you know if this will result in these devices being "verified" for things like Google wallet tap to pay?
@tarajdactyl GrapheneOS can't be certified by Google so it won't be approved by the Play Integrity API. That means Google Pay still won't permit using it. However, there are multiple tap-to-pay options available for GrapheneOS in the European Economic Area and UK including Curve Pay. You don't need Google Pay for tap-to-pay in most of Europe. If you aren't in the EEA or UK then a common alternative is using an Android Wear watch such as a Pixel Watch for a Garmin watch for Garmin Pay.
@tarajdactyl GrapheneOS can't be certified by Google so it won't be approved by the Play Integrity API. That means Google Pay still won't permit using it. However, there are multiple tap-to-pay options available for GrapheneOS for UK and the European Economic Area. If you're in Europe then you already don't need Google Pay to use tap-to-pay on GrapheneOS. If you aren't in Europe then a common option is using an Android Wear watch such as a Pixel Watch for a Garmin watch for Garmin Pay.
@GrapheneOS Congrats! I'll have to wait for a more affordable model, but it's exciting to see Graphene options from Motorola.
That's great! Congrats @GrapheneOS !
@GrapheneOS Leute, das wird ein richtig dickes teures Teil... aber mit Graphene!
@GrapheneOS will there be an option to turn off disable Motorola AI at an OS level using graphene ?
@64bithero There's no AI to disable. GrapheneOS isn't based on the stock OS with Google Mobile Services. It has hardware support for accelerating the math needed by neural networks, not any kind of AI implementation included in the device itself.
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@GrapheneOS yeah but it's $1500
It's a huge upgrade over a Pixel 11 Pro XL with far over double GPU performance, ~60% better single threaded CPU performance and ~80% better multithreaded CPU performance. It has significantly better cameras too.
Here's the main page for the device:
https://www.motorola.com/us/en/p/phones/signature/motorola-signature/pmipmka46mo
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sounds great but with that $1600 price tag - it will not be an option for most users including myself... i hope the next model you support will be affordable.
Motorola Signature 27 meets all of our official security requirements. It provides a high performance hardware memory tagging (MTE) implementation from Qualcomm, a high quality dedicated secure element from NXP and we'll be able to provide 7 years of proper update from launch.
Pixels used to be officially supported by the Android Open Source Project. Android 16 dropped Pixel support and they're now much harder to support than many other devices. We have to do a lot of reverse engineering and backport QPR1/QPR3 Pixel firmware/drivers for proper updates.
Motorola is providing official support for GrapheneOS and has multiple engineers helping us port GrapheneOS to their devices and implement the required security features. We'll have what we need provided officially and can work with them to improve driver/firmware security too.
@GrapheneOS Thats one good news, grapheneOS now on something other than #Google #pixel
@GrapheneOS @jjj I was so excited to try this and then bring SandFly support to Graphine OS, but it's far too expensive. Unfortunate, but not unexpected for a flagship.