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> As an American, I will order this phone as soon as it’s available to me!

It won’t be. From the time of their first phone the company actively made the choice to not support the US market. There’s the obvious spectrum difference and cost to certify, but the real reason they don’t want to touch it is litigation risk on patents and whatnot.

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https://www.androidauthority.com/graphene-os-major-android-o... hope fully soon

Main problem with this is that Google can end it as soon as they want to as Google effectively controls Android. Tactics like remote attestion will make it increasingly harder for Graphene to exist

Even if it's not sold in America, you might still be able to buy it and use it, how well that'll work depends on the spectrum compatibility of course.

This seems like the bigger problem to me the kind of people who are interested in this phone seem like the same kind of people who would be perfectly happy to order it from Europe or Asia.

I don’t think many people who really want this are the kind of people who just walk into a cell phone store and buy whatever tickles their fancy.

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