Motorola is the granddaddy of the mobile phone world. In 1983 it unveiled the world’s first commercial handset: a brick-like wodge of a thing that took 10 hours to charge enough for 30 minutes of call-time.
Four decades and several changes of ownership later, Motorola’s mobile division – now owned by Lenovo – made an intriguing announcement last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
For those worried about online privacy and data sovereignty, Motorola unveiled just the thing for them: a new handset running the privacy-focused software GrapheneOS.
The operating system is a so-called fork of the Android operating system that runs 72 per cent of mobile phones worldwide.
Behind GrapheneOS is a Canadian non-profit foundation founded a decade ago to strip back…