See https://grapheneos.org/faq#recommended-devices for our recommendations. We're working with an OEM towards their devices supporting GrapheneOS but that's a year or two away in the future.

This EU law banning unlocking story was untrue. The publication posting it retracted it in a subsequent story without updating the original. 1) https://xiaomitime.com/eu-kills-android-bootloader-unlock-starting-august-1-59449/ 2) https://xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-eu-isnt-ending-bootloader-unlocks-soon-59697/ The claims they cited were AI generated which they admit in the follow up story.

> You mean "doesn't stop people", right? Yes, we fixed it in an edit but it's not bridged to Nostr so we posted it again as an reply to ourselves. See this: https://xiaomitime.com/dont-panic-eu-isnt-ending-bootloader-unlocks-soon-59697/ The same author on the same site essentially admitted their story was nonsense based on AI. They didn't correct/update the original story. It got covered by tons and tons of other sites. They've all moved on to other misinformation cycles.

It's not correct information. EU has not killed unlocking devices. This law applies to desktops and laptops as much as smartphones due to those having Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios, which many people frequently forget about. It does stop people installing another OS on their devices and there isn't really a bigger impact on smartphones than laptops and desktops. It's a typical misinformation news cycle. Other news paraphrase stories.

Current Samsung tablets largely don't support being unlocked. Their devices with support for being unlocked don't have proper support for using another OS and cripple the device's functionality if you do it. There aren't serious alternate operating systems for their devices ince they don't allow it. They're potentially completely phasing out a subset of their devices having poor support for it anyway: https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-bootloader-unlocking-disabled-one-ui-8-3581366/

Vanadium version 139.0.7258.62.1 released: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/139.0.7258.62.1 See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog. Forum discussion thread: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24642-vanadium-version-13907258621-released #GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

You need Google's Speech Recognition & Synthesis app or another speech-to-text implementation.

/e/OS isn't a safe option due to lacking basic privacy/security patches and protections. It's far worse in most ways than using an iPhone. /e/OS even sends user data to OpenAI without consent and has other invasive services.

You can use nearly all Android apps on GrapheneOS. A small subset ban using anything other than a non-stock OS licensing Google Mobile Services via the Play Integrity API. WhatsApp works fine. In rare cases, WhatsApp bans people for detecting them as spammers which has a higher chance of happening to GrapheneOS users but it's very rare.

Fairphone 5 can't be supported by GrapheneOS. It doesn't meet our hardware security requirements and support requirements: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices The kernel branch it uses will be end-of-life in December 2025 with no plan to move to a new branch. It has 1-2 month delays for Android security backports which would impact us for the drivers and firmware. Delays of at least a year for yearly OS updates would impact us too due to the drivers and HALs. No secure element, etc. either.

Swissquote has launched official support for GrapheneOS for their main app instead of it only being available for Yuh: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.swissquote.android > What’s new > - We now officially support GrapheneOS! > - Bug fixes and minor improvements They're verifying GrapheneOS via hardware attestation.

It's much too early to ask us when we'll have support for the new Pixel 10 phones. They're only available for preorder. We need to have access to the devices and factory images before we can start working on this. If the new Pixels still provide proper alternate OS support, we can support them.

The keyboard is simply a lightly modified AOSP Keyboard, which resembles Google Keyboard from 2015. You can use whatever keyboard you prefer since they'll all work fine on GrapheneOS.

Gboard, FUTO Keyboard and Transcribro are options with that available. Speech Recognition & Synthesis works fine and can be used to provide it to other apps. We're in the process of making our own text-to-speech and speech-to-text apps to have both available out-of-the-box. We don't want to make a keyboard but rather will fork FlorisBoard when it's more complete.

Pixel 9 Pro or Pixel 9 Pro XL have a significantly better camera for photos than the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra based on most comparisons by experts. If you want the full camera functionality, then you currently need to use Pixel Camera. If you don't have a non-folding Pro model then you won't have the best cameras for that gen. 9th gen significantly upgraded too.

GrapheneOS has the same camera experience as the stock Pixel OS within the same apps. Pixel Camera on GrapheneOS works the same as it does on the stock OS. Pixel phones have highly regarded cameras. Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL have fantastic camera hardware and are great devices for someone who cares about it. https://www.dxomark.com/smartphones/ has an expert comparison.

FlorisBoard's main limitation is the current lack of suggestions and spell checking but you can have a different keyboard from your spell checker. If someone doesn't want suggestions in the first place, then FlorisBoard is a solid option. We can't replace AOSP Keyboard with FlorisBoard without those.

GrapheneOS users can install and use any keyboard app they want to use. There are no limitations. Gboard (Google Keyboard) works well on GrapheneOS and is what you're referring to. Many people use FUTO Keyboard but it's source available (non-commercial usage license) rather than open source so it can't be used to the traditional AOSP Keyboard app used by GrapheneOS.

What issues are you having? The vast majority of users have a great experience without hardware or software stability issues. There are a small portion of devices with hardware failures but based on the publicly available data it isn't higher than OEMs like Samsung. It's normal for 1-2% of devices to have hardware failures which can be hard to diagnose as hardware issues which isn't specific to Pixels and isn't avoided by iPhones.