Google pixels are the only android device that ship all the monthly and quarterly releases, which means they patch all discovered CVE's. All other android phones only backport ones labelled as high or severe, take significantly longer to do so and only end up getting the full up to date security patch once per year on a major android version upgrade i.e. 14 to 15, and even then they normally do that months after its been out so theyre already behind in terms of security patches.
Why does GrapheneOS run only on Google Pixel phones? Super suss if you ask me.
Because Google was founded as a DARPA/CIA operation, and Google is all about spying, control and censorship (google jigsaw). I am HIGHLY suspicious that GrapheneOS would only support Google phones. This maybe made a bit of sense initially if the Google phones had certain new security hardware features that other phones didn't have, and fully documented specs, but at this point that excuse is getting ridiculous. I suspect there is some hardware "watcher" in those things, low enough that you'll never detect or disable it, and they see everything though it. Huawei phones probably have a similar "watcher" that reports back to China.
I think we need another fork of AOSP, geared to run on different hardware from a neutral country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_phone_brands_by_country
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