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Having a vendor explicitly supporting it...epic is an understatement.

I had completely forgotten Lenovo bought Motorola from Google some 10 years ago. Honestly haven't seen a Motorola phone in at least that long ...

Volla phone (has choice between ubuntu touch and android rom) seems pretty cool.

Good. Now if only they could make the Edge+ with the same relative spec sheet and ditch the curved glass in 2027. I'd buy it in a heartbeat for Graphene. My next phone WAS going to be a Pixel for the broader case/screen protector support, but that would make me reconsider cause I would really miss the chop chop flashlight.

My last few phones have been Motorolas and I've been very very happy with them.

My only issue was that back then, I wasn't really paying attention to alternative OSs like Graphene, Lineage or e/os and was therefore not really too concerned with ROM support/chip set. When I switched over to e/os, two of my Motorola's (including the one I WANT to use with it) has no ROM support because it's running a Mediatek chipset. So I'm using my second to last one while my nice new one collects dust.

Moving forward I'll be paying more attention to Qualcomm vs Mediatek.

Me too. I've always bought Google Pixels but I don't want to give Google my money anymore.

So I'll probably buy a Motorola if this deal gets through.

I'd add "less than 15cm tall" too. I've had enough of stupid giant phones that don't fit in pockets and where you can't even reach the top or other side with your thumb.

I'd really like a removable battery as well.

SD slot would be great. Fuck every major company getting rid of it, so you have to use their cloud provider.

Grapheneos is a pretty attractive selling point for a phone. They could even make money the old fashioned way: by selling phones.

Probably they will not support it for budget phones

Fairphone isn’t available everywhere while Motorola is. It’s pretty easy to understand why they chose them.

Motorola gets a little bit of love from me because they were (maybe still are?) the only ones who allowed me to shout "COMRADE MOTO!" to wake my phone up

I will not say "Hey Google" in a million years. I refuse.

I solely need camera, contactless payments and projection for cars. If it is capable of these I am pre ordering.

Fully agree on that. Always better to start fully fresh, even without such problems.

That said, it's still important that it will ship pre-installed. That way app-developers who block GrapheneOS cannot excuse their actions anymore by saying that it was your decision to use another OS, and therefore not their problem.

Have you seen the "Shizuku" app? It utilises the debugging api to give some extra permissions that regular apps wouldn't usually get. Works on GrapheneOS and can give SwiftBackup a lot more power on devices that can't grant root access. You might find you don't need full rooting.