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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by Satuminus on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:21AM (#47214809)
This is good. Having an alternative to Pixel-Phones for GOS makes sense. I wonder if we will have the option to buy a Motorola phone with GOS out of the box (not sure if i would trust that, but it might be interesting for some people that are skeptical of installing it on their Pixel by themselves).
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by hashworks on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:33AM (#47214888)
AFAIK you can verify the integrity of an existing GrapheneOS installation.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by pferde on Monday March 02, 2026 @03:35AM (#47215311)
Indeed you can: https://grapheneos.org/install/web#verifying-installation
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by zx8080 on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:30AM (#47214865)
Same owner (Google/Alphabet): https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou...
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by gertrunde on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:35AM (#47214909)
Was, they sold it on to Lenovo in 2014.

[ https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-comp... ]

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by tim-kt on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:37AM (#47214923)
Motorola was subsequently sold to Lenovo in 2014.

https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-comp...

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by klausa on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:40AM (#47214951)
Literally the first three words of the announcement that this submission is about are "Motorola, a Lenovo Company".
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by doodlebugging on Monday March 02, 2026 @07:38AM (#47217261)
That is four words.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by ThePowerOfFuet on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:44AM (#47220400)
Come on.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by klausa on Monday March 02, 2026 @01:36PM (#47222088)
I was gonna be a smartass about how in my native language it would count as three words; but then I went and consulted Wikipedia and it was so dense with linguistics jargon I realized I actually have no idea what a "word" is.

But the consensus seems to be that in English that would indeed count as four words ;P

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by doodlebugging on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @10:33AM (#47233924)
I initially read your comment and decided that English may not be your first language and it made me wonder how the "a" in the phrase is treated in your language since that is the only likely part of the four words that would not be considered a word by itself.

In grade school English we are taught that 'a' and 'I' are separate words and AFAIK they are the only one-letter words in English with the possible exception of 'O' which is sometimes used in an older English context.

Does your native language bind the 'a' through the adjective "Lenovo" to the noun "company" as a modifier signifying a singular instance? I guess I wonder why it would not be considered to be a word by itself since in English it is commonly used along with 'an' to identify or specify a single item.

Thanks for responding.

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by aniviacat on Monday March 02, 2026 @03:01AM (#47215079)
Is that still up to date? On Motorola Mobility's Wikipedia page [1] it says

> [Motorola Mobility LLC] is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hong Kong based Chinese technology giant Lenovo.

Lenovo is a publicly traded company, and according to its shareholding structure report for 2025 [2] its main shareholder is Legend Holdings Corporation. (Lenovo is also listed as a subsidiary on Legend Holding Corporation's Wikipedia page [3].)

Legend Holding Corporation is again publicly traded, with all big shareholders being Chinese according to its 2024 annual report [4]. The biggest one is CAS Holdings with 30% of the shares.

The China Academy of Sciences is owned by the Chinese government.

So it seems like if Google still owns part of Motorola Mobility, it's not a main shareholder.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Mobility

[2] https://investor.lenovo.com/en/ir/shareholding.php

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_Holdings

[4] https://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2025/0429/2...

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by jakkos on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:36AM (#47214917)
Google sold the company to Lenovo in 2014
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by mhio on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:40AM (#47214954)
Cunningham's Law in full effect!
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by ItsHarper on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:38AM (#47214932)
No it's not. Google sold Motorola to Lenovo like a decade ago.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by neumann on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:38AM (#47214929)
They sold Motorola to Lenovo in 2014
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by Youden on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:37AM (#47214926)
Only for two years: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-comp...

Didn't you read the article? It's kinda hard to miss the Lenovo all through the press release.

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by Imustaskforhelp on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:49AM (#47215004)
Motorola is a lenovo company.

Atleast in the former moto Phone I had, even its boot sequence included the logo of motorola and then saying, a lenovo company.

It was a google company before 2014 but it was sold in 2014.

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by gib444 on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:33AM (#47214893)
No, Lenovo owns Motorola

Google owned it 2012-2014

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by phoronixrly on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:33AM (#47214884)
I was going to ask wasn't motorola bought and sold so many times that it ended up in Chinese hands. It ended up in Google's hands instead... Ngl, kind of underwhelming from Graphene

Edit: wait, that's old news, it is part of Lenovo...

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by 3nrico on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:38AM (#47214931)
That article is fron 2012. According to wikipedia Motorola Mobility was then aquired by Lenovo in 2014, and Lenovo still ownes Motorla Mobility to this day.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by Imustaskforhelp on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:58AM (#47215052)
Thinkpads are also part of Lenovo and is technically Chinese. But see, which device is recommended for privacy purposes the most because of Libreboot/Coreboot and how much respected thinkpads are in the privacy minded community.

Can't believe I am saying this but a chinese company can be good and an american company can be bad.

Not an exact fan of china, especially their authoritarianism but I am not a fan of america right now either.

For what its worth, a lot of American phone companies also use chinese factories or chinese components and assemble them in India or Vietnam (Apple) and then say that we are making phones in India which while true, isn't the most accurate picture but it keeps the masses happy.

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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by cromka on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:07AM (#47215475)
Models recommended for Coreboot are old ones. You can't get it on newer ones or can't even edit the UEFI/ACPI tables on them because firmware is a) signed b) on SMD nvram making it pita to flash
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by okanat on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:38AM (#47214928)
It ended up in Chinese hands.
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Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation by hrmtst93837 on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:18AM (#47216014)
This is a good step for users wanting more options for GOS. Pre-installed choices could address worries about installation for those who aren't comfortable doing it themselves.
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