For enthusiasts, it is literally an existing phone slapped on an XDA logo and LineageOS.
If it wants to legally ship with GMS, it still needs to pass CTS, and you still cannot root without breaking SafetyNet.
Might as well just buy any popular phone and flash any custom ROM.
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For developers, this is no different than any other smartphone, maybe even worse than Pixels.
If this phone is for developers, I'd expect almost everything, including the bootloader, to be open source so people can *really* mess around with it.
Look at PinePhone, not this one.
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So yeah, unless you are a diehard XDA fanboy which drolls over the XDA logo when you look at the back of the phone, I cannot see any reason why anyone should buy one.
Let me know your thoughts though, I'd love to know the reasons why you would disagree 😉
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You're forgetting privacy enthusiasts who do not want to mess with their device and want to have a google free phone with a keyboard out of the box.
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isn't copperos just a better version of graphene ? or I'm totally wrong ?
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No, CopperheadOS is a closed source fork of our legacy code.
GrapheneOS is the non-profit open source project created in 2014. CopperheadOS is a branded build of AOSP without substantial privacy and security hardening. It doesn't have current Android security updates either.
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Now I am confused ? You worked for copperhead in 2015 and went to graphene in 2018? It existed in 2014?
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GrapheneOS has existed as an open source project since 2014 and was based on my earlier work before that time. The project initially didn't have a name and was then known as CopperheadOS from a period in early 2015 to mid 2018. There are still changes around from 2014 / 2015.
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I've never been an employee of Copperhead. I have never had any employment agreement or salary from them.
In 2018, after they stopped sponsoring the open source project, they claimed money sent to me that year was a salary but without any employment agreement or salary set up.
You can see our repositories on GitHub originate with the beginning of the project being based on AOSP rather than CyanogenMod:
github.com/GrapheneOS/pla
These are the repositories the project used since it was known as CopperheadOS Beta. The current 'CopperheadOS' is a fork.
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And to be clear, it's a fork of our legacy code without our modern privacy / security hardening work, and without actually porting forward / maintaining the vast majority of the legacy work. The new 'CopperheadOS' is a branded build of AOSP masquerading as hardened. It's not...
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