nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq8ztv8tq3g3ez9yvlsf0madcytjm48cg78ezyhwal3xyg39rc45zsylusgf Fairphone doesn't provide proper updates or security features. Their devices don't meet our basic hardware security and support requirements which are listed at https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices. They ship the yearly releases around a year late from the start, skip monthly/quarterly releases entirely and consistently ship the security backports and SoC driver/firmware patches 1-2 months late. They have no secure element which is essential for disk encryption and important for other features.
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> With Google’s recent announcement that they will no longer be providing device trees for Pixel phones
There's no other Android OEM providing what Pixels provided prior to Android 16. It was never one of our hardware requirements and we've continued supporting Pixels without it. We've communicated that GrapheneOS development will continue, that existing Pixels will remain supported until end-of-life and that future Pixels will be supported if they meet the hardware requirements.
How about you wind down the requirements just a bit so more devices with better hardware are supported. You can always add a huge asterisk on the downloads page to warn the users that the device has worse security than Pixels. In my humble opinion not many users require that much security but a lot want features like sandboxed Google Play Services or as useful permission manager but no other rom provides them