Privateness-focused Android fork GrapheneOS is speaking up a deal which ought to put its software program in entrance of extra individuals within the not too distant future. For the time being, GrapheneOS is simply appropriate with sure Google Pixel telephones, however posts made to social media by the corporate make it clear that is going to vary.
In a wide range of responses, GrapheneOS mentioned on a number of events it partnered with an Android gadget maker in June 2025, and is now working with it to combine assist for the software program on not less than one future gadget.
Future GrapheneOS cellphone deliberate
Responding to a publish to the GrapheneOS subreddit, a moderator offered a stunning quantity of element:
We’re working with a serious OEM and the gadgets would be the future variations of current fashions they’ve now. The gadgets might be priced equally to Pixels. The preliminary gadgets could have a flagship Snapdragon SoC for one of the best safety and assist time. It might be out there in loads of international locations since it might be certainly one of their common gadgets, however with official GrapheneOS assist.
The moderator additionally mentioned the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 processor could be the primary chip to satisfy its necessities, however stopped brief at confirming the longer term gadget (or gadgets) would use the newest Qualcomm chip. Nonetheless, the wording of its assertion signifies it’ll.
Which Android cellphone maker is onboard?
Whereas an attention-grabbing change of course for GrapheneOS, there are a couple of factors to pay specific consideration to right here. Clearly, the corporate shouldn’t be ready (or keen) to share the title of its accomplice right now, leaving it right down to hypothesis.
We also needs to be aware GrapheneOS says the gadgets might be primarily based on an current mannequin, moderately than some future new launch. For instance, this might imply GrapheneOS might be supplied on a particular OnePlus 13, moderately than the OnePlus 15 or OnePlus 16.
OnePlus is a potential accomplice too, given its historical past with various software program, however it could have change into too mainstream to think about a separate, privacy-focused gadget.
Determining which model is onboard means understanding GrapheneOS’s definition of a “main” gadget maker, as these which have pushed smartphones with larger privateness — Punkt and Fairphone, for instance — prior to now, aren’t the identical as Samsung or Motorola.
The point out of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 makes hypothesis more durable although, as on the time of writing, solely Xiaomi (an unlikely candidate for a privacy-focused cellphone, however nonetheless potential) has launched a cellphone with the chip, and solely in China.
When will the cellphone arrive?
Though GrapheneOS is making noise in regards to the partnership now, it’s nonetheless early days, and it doesn’t look like the primary gadget will arrive earlier than subsequent yr on the earliest.
The corporate said it has solely been working with the model since June, and doesn’t have an official timeline to share but. It says its first non-Pixel cellphone will “hopefully” arrive in 2026, however doesn’t appear to rule out a 2027 arrival both.
Within the meantime, you’ll be able to discover ways to set up GrapheneOS in your Pixel cellphone right here.