Interesting development. Nice to see an independent Android build get a preinstall option on a non-google phone.
Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
9to5google.com/2026/03/01/moto…
#Andoid #Google #Motorola #CustomRom #GrapheneOS
Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features
Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS which will see a phone with support, as well as features ported to other devices.Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
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![A screenshot of an Android app. Text:
▲ Nearby Glasses
Smart Glasses are probably nearby
Device: Unknown
RSSI: -42 dBm
Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E)
Company: Meta Platforms, Inc.
This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning.
Debug Log
[19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:41] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:42] Unknown (-57 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:43] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
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▲ Nearby Glasses
Smart Glasses are probably nearby
Device: Unknown
RSSI: -42 dBm
Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E)
Company: Meta Platforms, Inc.
This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning.
Debug Log
[19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:41] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:42] Unknown (-57 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:43] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
[19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
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in reply to KDE • • •Spread this post and, if you are the maintainer of a software project with versions for Android, please join us and sign the open letter:
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An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution
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Stemy
in reply to KDE • • •Olivenolje
in reply to Stemy • • •🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp
in reply to Olivenolje • • •@olivenolje
It costs a missed opportunity to give more appropriate advice: stay away from google and use more private community forks of android that if I understand correctly will not be affected by googles papers please app ecosystem.
A strategy focusing on begging tech giants to not do the will of capital is basically lying to the public that there is a chance this can work.
In theory yes the open letter is a nice thing to have regardless of how google reacts because then we have something to point to how google is ignoring public opinion - but it needs to be presented with heavy caveats and we need to focus on getting average people out of googles grip so they don't hold this much power over us
#Google #Android #Capitalism
KDE
in reply to 🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp • • •@ambiguous_yelp @olivenolje
Oh! We agree. That's what @plasmamobile is all about. However, realistically PlaMo is not ready for the general public yet, despite how hard we are working on it.
If we could get the sort of support regular Plasma has, the story would be VERY different. But PlaMo is still niche.
🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp
in reply to KDE • • •@olivenolje @plasmamobile
I hadn't heard until Plasma Mobile until now, I had only heard of the pinephone one. I am excited to hear more about the project development in the future!
#KDE #PlasmaMobile #Linux #Pinephone
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PerryPeak
in reply to 🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp • • •KDE
in reply to PerryPeak • • •@PerryPeak @ambiguous_yelp @olivenolje @plasmamobile
The preferred test hardware is OnePlus 6 and 6t these days.
Olivenolje
in reply to KDE • • •Or is the limiting factor the lack of contributors?
KDE
in reply to Olivenolje • • •@olivenolje @ambiguous_yelp @plasmamobile
Very much both. Also finding more hardware support. In that respect, we must not forget about the great work the people at @postmarketOS are doing! They help us get PlaMo on to more phones, giving us more space in which to grow.
Stemy
in reply to 🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp • • •Olivenolje
in reply to 🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp • • •@ambiguous_yelp Fair point.
However, if we insist on using Android (forks), we're still impacted by Google's decisions. Sooner or later, these forks will be less and less of a valid option (cf. how google's changes to the Pixel 10 series were a pain for the Grapheneos team).
Even if this letter fails, we shouldn't simply stick our heads in sand and look away from these issues. As you mentioned, raising public awareness is critical. So is fighting against their control.
🌱🏴🅰️🏳️⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp
in reply to Olivenolje • • •@olivenolje @Stem
I expect hardware to become more locked down, this is what states and capital want. The best solution to that continues to be open source hardware and modular devices.
I believe this because open source hardware and modular devices create power at a grassroots level and invites tighter crackdowns from governments - but there is a political limit to how oppressive a regime can be and the more power we build for ourselves the more expensive it will be for them to stop us using unapproved apps which slows the whole oppressive system down
#Anarchism #OpenSourceHardware
Stemy
in reply to Olivenolje • • •F-Droid
in reply to Stemy • • •Simon Deutschl
in reply to Stemy • • •@Stem
No. But to keep the mouth shut and let it happen quietly is not an option.
@kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen
Stemy
in reply to Simon Deutschl • • •Simon Deutschl
in reply to Stemy • • •@Stem
If you fight, you'll probably lose. But if you don't fight, you have already lost.
@kde @fdroidorg @keepandroidopen
Fokeu🌸
in reply to Stemy • • •Kilgore Trout
in reply to Stemy • • •Stemy
in reply to Kilgore Trout • • •mormund
in reply to Stemy • • •Olivenolje
in reply to KDE • • •What about you?
@GrapheneOS @CoMaps @signalapp @thunderbird @lfeurope @linuxfoundation
JAML
in reply to KDE • • •Sign the Petition
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in reply to KDE • • •decapitae
in reply to KDE • • •Toadofsky
in reply to KDE • • •F-Droid
in reply to Toadofsky • • •@toadofsky keepandroidopen.org/ has a section for users too.
Simple example, you want to install a nice app your friend made/recommended, you run stock Android, installation is rejected. The end.
Keep Android Open
keepandroidopen.orgScale Theory
in reply to KDE • • •Apple and Google, 2 choices for apps from where we sit, and both are partners in crime. END MONOPOLIES. Capitalism has become extortion when conglomerated.
Tear everything apart and build it from scratch, the entire system has been subverted to evil.
Custard! 🍮
in reply to KDE • • •JenX
in reply to KDE • • •David Heidelberg
in reply to KDE • • •How does Plasma Mobile fit into this? I thought Plasma Mobile positions itself as an alternative to Android, so I'm wondering why we don't hear much about it.
#Plasma #KDE
KDE
in reply to David Heidelberg • • •@okias
It does. Albeit, many end users will find it hard to install and with not as many features or the stability of Android.
We are working hard on it and it has come a long way, but it may not be the drop-in substitute many users will be looking for quite yet.