Comment by throwaway81523
19 hours ago
The whole Moto G series has audio jacks, at least as of a year or so ago. I hope that Graphene makes it to those affordable models. I don't need high end cameras or AI on my phone. In fact AI is quite unwanted.
19 hours ago
The whole Moto G series has audio jacks, at least as of a year or so ago. I hope that Graphene makes it to those affordable models. I don't need high end cameras or AI on my phone. In fact AI is quite unwanted.
I think I went through the first ~3 or so generations of the Motorola Moto G, and they were great for the price, besides the fact that each generation it got bigger and bigger, defeating the original motivation I bought them in the first place. Eventually the iPhone 12 Mini was released and I moved to iPhone at that point.
I also hope that the new GrapheneOS device from Motorola will be in the "smaller" size factor so it actually fits in my (apparently) tiny hands, but to be honest I'm probably getting one regardless, as iOS gets worse and worse every time I update it.
Lol, no, according to graphene, an aux jack is a security problem. So is a microsd. But the hole punch with the camera pointed at your face, that's just fine.
When my current phone dies, I'm basically returning to a dumb phone with a removable battery. Now that Xperia dropped open source, every phone out there is terrible and I just don't want any of them. Anything that would support a ROM has features to make my skin crawl.
Their hardware requirements do not say this, where'd you get that idea? Graphene has stated they'll work with the Motorola team on supporting their devices, starting with the successors of the Razr foldable and the signature line, but there really hasn't been any talk about how additional peripherals like aux would be a no-go. USB is also a security concern, which is why they give you the option to disable it outright, disable data or disable until after-first-unlock. I don't see what would keep them from implementing this for aux, although since it's unidirectional I'm not sure if it even makes sense to compare aux to USB. They've supported pixels with aux ports in the past, and I don't think it's inclusion would be a blocking criteria. The comment about the camera is also kinda misguided. They zero out the camera input if you disable it, unlike traditional android. You can have a camera toggle in your quick settings and keep it disabled literally all the time. Enabling it when you bring up any camera related app takes either pin or biometrics, having the hardware here really shouldn't be a concern since you can look at how the code handling it works yourself. I'm not trying to convince you to use a pixel or a Motorola phone, do what you want, but at least be informed about stuff like this when you state things as if they are facts.
> I don't see what would keep them from implementing this for aux, although since it's unidirectional
No electric circuit is unidirectional. Beyond the pause/play and volume commands that it supports (edit: and mic as mentioned in a sibling comment), Graphene would probably reason it's an easy way to externally read voltage levels and so an unnamed entity can mount side channel attacks with backdoored headphones
> since it's unidirectional I'm not sure if it even makes sense to compare aux to USB
Most phone aux support microphones and acting as an antenna for FM radio reception. I don't see how either could be used for a security exploit however.
>but there really hasn't been any talk about how additional peripherals like aux would be a no-go.
It's water under the bridge. You're NEVER getting a Graphene phone that supports a microsd. It won't happen. The AUX jack, you will biligerently be told to get a USB DAC or otherwise you are an old man yelling at clouds.
Graphene and Motorola will work together by happy accident. Tell ya what though, if they make a GrapheneOS phone with 3.5mm, dual sim, microsd, and >no notch or hole punch< and I will buy it. I won't even care how much it costs. All the Xperias I've owned were among the most expensive phones on the market.
1 reply →
It sounds bizarre to me that an analog aux port is a security problem and that bluetooth audio is not, or that the phone's built in microphone is not. I never want to use bluetooth and tbh I've sometimes wanted a phone with no microphone, so that if I wanted to make a phone call I'd have to plug in my wired headset. That gets rid of the microphone as a listening device.
why do you say "according to graphene?" have they said those things? or do you just mean the currently supported devices don't have these
It's a shame that modern banking (and communication with my family) needs a smartphone.
Does it? My banking works in any browser that supports javascript, and chatting has been possible on desktops (and laptops etc.) longer than it has on phones
> When my current phone dies, I'm basically returning to a dumb phone with a removable battery.
Why not a smartphone with the jack, microsd, and a hardware kill switch for camera?
I haven't found a >=2025 phone (I started looking in the summer) with a headphone jack that I can actually use more conveniently than a tablet. Everything now requires two hands, not counting warrantyless china phones like the jelly star, or ones with a chipset that would have been considered fast in 2018
As for the camera, a webcam sticker seems much more convenient than needing to mess with the hardware internals
3 replies →
Modern dumb phones are just smartphones with a dumb UI.
Citation needed. A lot of dumb phones still only support 2g, for example, and you need to watch out that you don't buy a model that won't work anymore when carriers take that off the air. No smartphone hardware has that issue