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Motorola Signature 27 confirmed to support GrapheneOS
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The chips do not support the features required it is as simple as that. Their eventually come to budget phones is them thinking that the features required well eventually get put into midrange chips.
It is as simple as that.
Ask Qualcolm to put those features in their midrange SOCS.
Personally I'm more interested in the sandboxing and non-Google features of Graphene. It kind of feels like they've decided that if everything isn't supported then it isn't worth supporting at all. But I don't see any reason why they can't have a "lite" version that I can install on my current phone. I don't want to pay so much for a new phone
I think there are two reasons for that:
It should be possible to build a soft-fork of GOS for probably any device that supports e.g. LineageOS, but no one wants to do it.
I'm with you.
But it's a tough call on Graphene's part too - right now only us in-the-know have any awareness of the implications of Graphene's approach (security first) or even alternative OS for Android devices.
They probably think getting that out to the greater public is the crucial first step - get that accepted as a thing.
Also, by the time the general public is using Graphene devices, other phones may be shipping with the necessary hardware. Remember, most people are buying new phones every couple years when their old one starts misbehaving - to most people a phone is a toaster.