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Has the OEM in question been revealed yet? Likely not one of the major OEMs because they all lock their bootloaders. I'm crossing my fingers it's Fairphone but that's because I love my FP5. The GrapheneOS devs have been pretty harsh towards Fairphone because of their slow updates.

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They seem to refuse that they're working with fairphone, so it seems unlikely.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o3vmn5/comment...

My guess is that its either HMD or Nothing. Will probably still take a while until we learn about this

The most likely contenders are OnePlus, Motorola, and HMD.

> "It is a big enough OEM that there is good chance you may have owned a device from them in the past."

I think this takes Nothing out of contention.

What about HTC, LG? Heck, Blackberry rising from the ashes?

I'd love for it to be Framework.

Those are no longer big these days so no. Also, they're not going to restart a whole product category just for grapheneos.

As OnePlus is kinda dead and taken over by oppo, I'm guessing Sony. They have some similar collaboration in the past like with Jolla. My Sony XA2 was one of the few models that could run sailfish.

> Also, they're not going to restart a whole product category just for grapheneos.

I don't think that there is any need to restart a new category. Just make your new phones good enough for GrapheneOS.

GrapheneOS has close to half a million users, I think it's worth doing some adjustments.

> I don't think that there is any need to restart a new category. Just make your new phones...

For HTC, yes... But neither LG nor Blackberry are still making phones

Oh, I get it now!

BlackBerry hasn't been OEM for their last few phones - the KeyOne, 2LE, and 2 were all outsourced to TCL, who is still making handsets. This would also fit with BlackBerry's security image, and even pull in the OnwardMobility vapourware.

I'm every bit as skeptical as you are, and in no universe is BlackBerry the OEM in question, but I would like to live in my delusion until GrapheneOS proves me wrong - I want a keyboard, dammit!

BlackBerry has been out of the phone business for years now.

They basically sold the brand to TCL iirc

I don't remember where but heard it was Nothing

If you've run a open source project almost of any size, it's quite a task having to support it on various devices scenarios.

The GrapheneOS devs are doing the right thing for the longevity of the project. Focus on a small number of phones/hardware. It guarantees its long term success.

Excellent work I think, also the Pixel hardware design offers slightly better security with the baseband.

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