An internal Motorola presentation leak appears to confirm a GrapheneOS partnership for non-Pixel hardware, with an official announcement likely at MWC 2026.
Honestly, $400-$500 for 7 years of support is a killer deal. 5 years ago the only manufacturer to give a meaningful amount of support was Apple, everyone else was up to 2, even for flagships.
But I completely understand your situation, especially if you’re trying to be fiscally responsible and NOT get your phone on a payment plan of some sort. The 7 years of support means you might be able to find a 2 year old Pixel for below 300 though? Unless they don’t depreciate fast enough for that.
Ah, I suppose. My benchmark here is Apple which did it long before Huawei which is why it’s so perplexing to me that it took this long for the Android world to catch up. Apple’s not perfect, but basically everyone lagged behind them in this. The 2014 iPhone 6 got 4 years of updates, the 2015 6s got 7 and subsequent phones seem to be getting 5-7 depending on Tim Cook’s mood (they do claim hardware incompatibility when they sunset an older model, but who the hell really knows)
Looking at the P50 which I believe is the flagship for Huawei (excluding the Mate which is just larger) in 2021, that still only got 2.
Honestly, $400-$500 for 7 years of support is a killer deal. 5 years ago the only manufacturer to give a meaningful amount of support was Apple, everyone else was up to 2, even for flagships.
But I completely understand your situation, especially if you’re trying to be fiscally responsible and NOT get your phone on a payment plan of some sort. The 7 years of support means you might be able to find a 2 year old Pixel for below 300 though? Unless they don’t depreciate fast enough for that.
Not Huawei
They also did 1-2 for a long time.
They provided 4 years long before Samsung and others did. Even before Pixels did
Ah, I suppose. My benchmark here is Apple which did it long before Huawei which is why it’s so perplexing to me that it took this long for the Android world to catch up. Apple’s not perfect, but basically everyone lagged behind them in this. The 2014 iPhone 6 got 4 years of updates, the 2015 6s got 7 and subsequent phones seem to be getting 5-7 depending on Tim Cook’s mood (they do claim hardware incompatibility when they sunset an older model, but who the hell really knows)
Looking at the P50 which I believe is the flagship for Huawei (excluding the Mate which is just larger) in 2021, that still only got 2.