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The hardware requirements are listed here:

https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices

Pixels are the only Android devices meeting these requirements at the moment. Other devices do not currently come close to meeting these standards. This post is about MTE which is essentially a Pixel exclusive feature.

Simply receiving monthly and quarterly updates is essentially a Pixel exclusive feature and using an alternate OS providing them still leaves major parts of the firmware/OS without those improvements.

2 of the features on the requirements list are proposals we made to them which were accepted / implemented. There's another one of these pending for protection against data extraction via physical access through exploiting firmware boot modes on After First Unlock devices. Supposed to ship in April, and then we can add it to the list. The non-truncated key fingerprint display (we reported truncating it as a vulnerability) and the fantastic pinning-based hardware attestation support used by our Auditor app are the existing 2.

We've tried working with other OEMs but it hasn't panned out yet. We're often quite frustrated by Google but you'd probably be surprised at how much they have done based on our requests.



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