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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by rockSlayer to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

With the recent announcement of Motorola partnering with GrapheneOS, I got curious about installing a custom rom like LineageOS or/e/OS on my Moto G Power (vegas) because I've been meaning to degoogle for a while now. As far as I can tell, Motorola has all the keys to be a primary development target: OEM supported boot unlocking, cheap devices, accessible hardware, etc. Why have their devices largely been ignored by custom ROM developers?

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[-] ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Motorola was never good, at smartphones. If you look back just a little further they were pretty great.

Although, if I remember right they did manufacture the Nexus 6 which was pretty well liked at the time.

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I meant smartphones. I had the v120 and some letter, I forget, and the ROKR z6m slider. Both awesome phones. And of course they make industrial radios (mainly for police, hence the saying "You can't outrun Motorola"?).

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