Lenovo subsidiary Motorola has taken to the stage at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today to announce a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, in a move what will bring support to the security-focused Android fork to “future devices” from the company.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are thrilled to be partnering with Motorola to bring GrapheneOS’s industry\u2011leading privacy and security\u2011focused mobile operating system to their next-generation smartphone,” a GrapheneOS spokesperson says of the partnership. “This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security.”<\/p>\n
GrapheneOS, the security-focused AOSP-based mobile OS, is coming to at least one future Motorola handset. (\ud83d\udcf7: GrapheneOS)<\/p>\n
GrapheneOS was founded in 2014 by then-solo developer Daniel Micay as an effort to create a more secure mobile platform built around the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) \u2014 the public, openly-licensed underpinnings of Google’s popular Android mobile operating system. Today, it offers builds for Google Pixel phones ranging from the older Pixel 6, Pixel 6A, and Pixel 6 Pro to the Pixel 10, 10 Pro, 10 Pro XL, and 10 Pro Fold \u2014 and soon could extend that support beyond the Google Pixel family to future Motorola handsets.<\/p>\n
Unveiled today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the partnership doesn’t necessarily mean that existing Motorola mobile devices will be receiving a GrapheneOS build. GrapheneOS itself positions the deal as focusing on an as-yet unannounced “next-generation smartphone,” whereas Motorola says the joint effort will see the companies “work together to strengthen smartphone security and collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility.”<\/p>\n