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Re:Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8 by danieldk on Monday July 28, 2025 @11:40AM (#44711938)
Unfortunately, it's hard to make Fairphone secure. No separate secure element (so much easier to do brute force PIN attacks) and always lags in monthly security bulletin patches and major OS releases (remember that the monthly patches typically only address high/critical vulnerabilities, for the rest you need OS updates, QPRs, etc.).

Until Graphene works out the deal with the OEM that they are talking to, Pixel is pretty much the only secure phone that allows installing alternative firmware.

Re:Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8 by karambanoonoo on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:12AM (#44732812)
Does that mean Graphene plans to support phones from other manufacturers than Google?
Re:Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8 by snvzz on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @07:42PM (#44740845)
Fingers crossed that's what it means and that it succeeds.

I'd likely buy that.

Re:Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8 by strcat on Sunday August 03, 2025 @10:50AM (#44776948)
Yes, but they need to meet our official requirements:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

We're working with a major Android OEM and it's going well so far. It's still in an early phase where they've assigned a small amount of resources to it to determine everything which needs to be done and then make the case for a much larger investment of resources. We expect that to happen and for it to go well.

Re:Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8 by karambanoonoo on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:34PM (#44828574)
Amazing. I just wish there was a device with an IPS display supported (for PWM flicker sensitive folks).