I have been wondering about the which devices or SOCs are remotly close to be candidates for future support. The requirements list for support is quite big. This is more of a post to list close devices and manufacturers other than google.

I apologize if this has been discussed before, and not providing and suggestions I know some of the requirements, but as still studying up on others

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    OfflinePuffin I have been wondering about the which devices or SOCs are remotly close to be candidates for future support. The requirements list for support is quite big. This is more of a post to list close devices and manufacturers other than google.

    My personal (and completely unofficial) sense is that:

    1. The developers are watching the market for potential new hardware fairly closely,
    2. They are not making posts every time Samsung/Sony/Xiaomi/Huawei/Fairphone release new phones explaining why each of those phones is not ok, because there are a lot of manufacturers and a lot of phones and the phones are pretty far away from ok, in various ways,
    3. Because of the need for extended firmware/driver support and the desirability of a good working relationship on bug handling, it is probably more productive for an interested manufacturer to contact the GrapheneOS project than for the GrapheneOS project to contact Samsung/Sony/Xiaomi/Huawei/Fairphone every year.

    If that is right, the expected state of affairs would be a long period of silence from the project and then -- hopefully -- an announcement that an agreement has been made with some manufacturer.

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        de0u Having a user base of 200-250k GrapheneOS is small however you may view it.
        I cannot see any manufacturer contacting GrapheneOS,
        Imagine the cost of buying in specific components, re-tooling, and then making a product, testing, testing, testing, and only having a market share of 250k, no company will do that when their current market share is in the millions, its just economics.
        Unless there is a CEO somewhere, using GrapheneOS on a pixel, on the side.