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A year ago or so, the ThinkPhone 23 (Snapdragon 8, 2023, a weird "flagship") was available for 229€ new on various retail stores. The phone also supports Mobian/PostmarketOS and the bootloader is unlockable with no adverse effects.

Out of nowhere, it received (along with other older phones) updates up to Android 16.

I wouldn't be surprised if the "sudden" update was just a side effect of Motorola preparing for Graphene to be released on these older phones.

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No current Motorola phones meet their hardware requirements. 2027 flagship models will be the first to be supported.

https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2058730195041812839

https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2064124713501163912

Oh, that's unfortunate. I thought they meant support would be released in 2027, not that phones from 2027 would be supported only. :(

Not sure about other phones, but ThinkPhone 23 was supposed to get Android 16 anyway

https://www.androidauthority.com/lenovo-thinkphone-hands-on-...

I have a 'long life' Android device (Zebra EM45) that has only recently gotten its Android 15 updates; its committed through Android 16 so I assume it's also waiting on Qualcomm to get its act together and in gear for whatever final patches are required for the QCS5430. IIRC, QCOMM is promising "10 years" on the CPU.

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