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Don’t think I have ever owned a Motorola phone but it seems I just might in 2027.
In my experience, they have always been one of the less painful custom rom experiences, but for some reason, overlooked by the community
Yeah no idea why people are sleeping on the Motos. I love mine
Ads, as of late. Bought my mom one and kinda regret it.
I’ve had a couple and always installef LineageOS. A custom ROM with the ability to keep the bootloader locked will be nice
My last one was in the naughts. When Nokia was still a market leader.
It’s been my main brand for a while now. Pretty good hardware with very few changes to base android. There are not many options in my country so from what’s available, Motorola is by far the best choice.
I had the Razr V3M (the original one): It was a pretty solid phone.
StarTAC hand-me-down as my first cell phone.
Motorola Droid as my first smart phone.
I haven’t had many Motorolas, but my limited history with them has been pretty alright!
Funny, my carrier just offered a free phone upgrade and I ordered a Motorola at random because I was growing increasingly annoyed by my Samsung. Luck was with me!
That’s great, if I was going to pick a phone brand for Graphene it would be Motorola.
Gotta have that shake flashlight
I miss that on my x4
My Moto Edge has it. It’s so natural and I love it.
Shake flashlight and twist camera, I use both every single day.
Well, well, well, my next phone might just be a Motorola!
Moar, please.
Dear Santa…
- HW switches
- repairable
That’s all I want. Thank you.
I would also take a headphone jack if we could swing that.
And sd card.
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A functional NFC payment check would be welcome. Hoping Motorola would have the pull to implement that either by getting Google Wallet’s blessing or forcing them to. I really don’t see why it is not considered a monopolistic practice since it gives Googles official OS an unfair advantage.
That’s the thing - Android is not Googles official/private OS. They just help maintain it. In their distribution, they ship it with Google products. The EU is strongly against this practice, why there is a EU version without preinstalled apps. The maker of the phone then has to solve the problem of how to solve certain problems. Samsung solved it by providing their own wallet solution. Motorola would have to do the same.
I’ve had a few moto phones and one edge, in general I was quite happy with them. Motorola doesn’t change the Android UI too much and only adds a few convenience functions.
Price / value ratio is also pretty good.
Lenovo is walking on the razor’s edge. They are still a chinese company and can’t help themselves. My G23 had Lenovo’s adware instaled after a version upgrade, kept pushing for Live Lock Screens. Had to uninstall the crap on the user through adb, just disabling it didn’t work.
You have to think and view this deal as GrapheneOS with Lenovo, not with Motorola.
razor’s edge
Razr’s edge
If you can load vanilla graphene on to it without compromise who gives a shit?
Who cares? The people that aren’t technically adept and yet want out of Apple/Android.
Installing graphene is requires you to plug your phone into your laptop running google chrome and:
- Visit a web page
- Click three buttons
- Click a setting in the settings menu on your phone
- Restart your phone
If you can’t do that then you’re already incapable of operating a phone, and therefore its a moot point.
If the issue is you cant find the information then your skill issue isn’t with tech its with using a search engine.
Stop infantalizing people, and maybe google and apple wont be able to use the widespread expectance of instant convenience to normalize corporate malware like they have for the past 15 years.
I’m so sick of people acting like reading a web page and clicking through an install wizard requires a fucking C.S. degree. Its both insulting to the average user, and those with more knowledge.
Ah the elitist attitude. “It’s easy for me do then it’s easy for everyone” “if you can’t do it then there’s something wrong with you”
Which ignores the fact that way too many apps and websites have their interfaces totally fucked up. So because of that many people just get really confused and then can’t figure it out.
Yeah maybe graphene might be different. But that is not the point. The point is most sites and apps are almost unusable. So when you tell someone to change their o/s they get the idea that it’s impossible and don’t look. So instead of pulling a crappy attitude try looking at it from the other side.
Either way. Have a nice day. Bye.
Yeah maybe graphene might be different. But that is not the point. The point is most sites and apps are almost unusable. So when you tell someone to change their o/s they get the idea that it’s impossible and don’t look.
Yes it absolutely is and this is literally the problem I’m pointing out.
When you say its too hard it implies its because its difficult, which means it needs to be made easy.
Your issue is not educational, nor accessibility. Its that you don’t want to put fucking effort in. You want it to be done for you.
That’s it. That’s literally what I’ve been trying to get out of you fucks forever. That its not how hard something is. Its that you need it spoon fed.
You should feel shame for that.
Everyone who expects that should.
You’re an adult, you should be able to put effort into the machines that run your daily life.
Elitism means I think I’m better than you because I’m smarter, I don’t. I think you’re being a lazy fuck, and are capable of doing basic things, but don’t want to, its right here in your comment:
they don’t look
You’re capable, you just don’t.
This is like bitching you didn’t know your car needed gas or an oil change, then blaming it on the people who knew.
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It tells you on the page which one to click, what’s the issue?
This is like getting mad and calling cars bullshit because you didn’t know to put fucking gas in your car.
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They’re not dumb they’re just propagandized into being lazy.
Big tech companies convinced everyone their computers where magic and not machines they can understand if they put the effort into.
I installed LineageOS on my Motorola. No adware to be seen. With an entirely separate ROM I dont see how it could be a problem
Im pretty simple. I’d like decent cameras and microsd card expansion.
If it ain’t got a jack, I gotta send it back.
Prob my next phone.
I hope it’s a flip phone with 12 buttons on it
I will take any trash at this point, considering to hell hole that the smartphone market is now.
How dare you call this trash?
Looks like I misinterpreted your comment. I was a bit groggy when I replied.
it’s okay I’m not actually offended i love you bb I don’t actually have one of these phones I hate them
I love my razr 2024, but I’ve been patiently waiting for graphene to support a decent non-google phone. Looks like I’m about to get the best of both worlds!
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
to expand Motorola’s B2B ecosystem with advanced security
Its probably gonna be their Thinkphone, currently they are about 500€ a piece, with a subscription for various business things
Wasn’t the last thinkphone from 2024?
Would be nice, but the last think phone had mediatek instead of Qualcomm so I don’t know if that will be the case (mediatek seems a lot harder to make custom ROMs for and there aren’t too many).
But modeled after the first think phone would be awesome. USB 3.1, wireless charging, decent camera for its time, but no SD card slot or headphone jack…
Here’s hoping they’ve got a larger version of phone for whatever they end up with. The price gap for the pixel 9 XL (i got big hands, i couldn’t type reliably on a base model size) was kinda nuts
Please don’t have a shit camera and I’m all in
