They just need to add a 2€ TPM chip and the rest is mostly software/firmware work.
Pixel is breaking the support on purpose, graphene had a chance to bring that to budget phones, but likely got strong-armed by Lenovo saying “only for a flagship or no deal” or something.
As far as I know, the problem is that Lenovo doesn’t make the SOCs that actually implement the security features GrapheneOS requires; Qualcomm does (assuming this phone uses a Snapdragon chip - I didn’t check). And Qualcomm only puts these security features into the most powerful SOCs, which are themselves only appropriate for flagship phones.
I hope that some day more budget SOCs will get these security features too so that more people can reap the benefits, and I hope Graphene is pushing for this too, but I don’t think we’ll see it any time soon.
That being said, I’m just happy Graphene has any partnership at all. One step at a time; once these phones are done they can focus on expanding their offerings more.
Lol they are working directly with the company.
They just need to add a 2€ TPM chip and the rest is mostly software/firmware work.
Pixel is breaking the support on purpose, graphene had a chance to bring that to budget phones, but likely got strong-armed by Lenovo saying “only for a flagship or no deal” or something.
As far as I know, the problem is that Lenovo doesn’t make the SOCs that actually implement the security features GrapheneOS requires; Qualcomm does (assuming this phone uses a Snapdragon chip - I didn’t check). And Qualcomm only puts these security features into the most powerful SOCs, which are themselves only appropriate for flagship phones.
I hope that some day more budget SOCs will get these security features too so that more people can reap the benefits, and I hope Graphene is pushing for this too, but I don’t think we’ll see it any time soon.
That being said, I’m just happy Graphene has any partnership at all. One step at a time; once these phones are done they can focus on expanding their offerings more.
There’s a lot that Qualcomm could do better support-wise