Motorola to preinstall GrapheneOS on 2027 phones

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Motorola (a Lenovo company) announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to deliver GrapheneOS on future Motorola smartphones starting in 2027. The company presented the move as an "added new era of smartphone security," with security and privacy as the big selling points.

Founded in 2014 as a non‑profit, GrapheneOS builds on the Android Open Source Project and adds privacy enhancements such as fortified app sandboxes and toggles for network or sensor access. The project uses a mix of permissive open‑source licenses, primarily MIT for its own code, while changes to AOSP remain under their original Apache 2.0 (or other upstream) licenses and the Linux kernel portions remain GPLv2.

The OS includes the security‑hardened Vanadium browser and the GrapheneOS App Store, and also supports F‑Droid and Obtainium. Most Google Play apps can be used by installing them through the GrapheneOS App Store, where they run in sandboxes.

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