{"id":224343,"date":"2025-10-14T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224343\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T16:04:08","slug":"grapheneos-will-drop-google-pixel-exclusivity-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/224343\/","title":{"rendered":"GrapheneOS will drop Google Pixel exclusivity soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GrapheneOS-logo-5.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>GrapheneOS is a security-focused Android experience that, to date, has been available solely on Google Pixel devices. Soon, though, a \u201cmajor OEM\u201d will be added to GrapheneOS\u2019 support list, with Snapdragon-powered devices coming soon.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GrapheneOS\/comments\/1o32gpg\/comment\/nivsx0k\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a comment on Reddit<\/a>, the team behind GrapheneOS has confirmed plans to start offering devices other than Google Pixel smartphones at a \u201csimilar\u201d price. These Snapdragon-powered devices are coming from \u201ca major OEM\u201d that remains unnamed in the post.<\/p>\n<p>Like Pixel support, users of whatever device this ends up being would be able to install GrapheneOS on hardware that wasn\u2019t running Graphene out of the box. Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GrapheneOS\/comments\/1o32gpg\/comment\/njbo5aw\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned<\/a>, and it\u2019s also directly confirmed that whatever device this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GrapheneOS\/comments\/1o3vmn5\/comment\/nj1k76m\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has yet to be released<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, what could it be?<\/p>\n<p>\tAdvertisement &#8211; scroll for more content<\/p>\n<p>The most likely answer here is OnePlus, which started off its history with CyanogenMod as its OS. But it\u2019s also hard to say this for certain given recent changes the brand has made in regards <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/08\/14\/oneplus-bootloader-unlock-android-16-changes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to its bootloader security<\/a>. In a further thread, GrapheneOS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/GrapheneOS\/comments\/1o3vmn5\/comment\/nj1km4c\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says <\/a>that \u201cit\u2019s one of the major Android OEMs and they\u2019re definitely serious about working with us,\u201d while adding that it is not Fairphone, as some have speculated.<\/p>\n<p>More on Android:<\/p>\n<p>Follow Ben:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NexusBen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Threads<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/nexusben.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nexusben\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5google.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_557_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758668769_871_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Google as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GrapheneOS is a security-focused Android experience that, to date, has been available solely on Google Pixel devices. 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