MWC 2026: Motorola Partners with GrapheneOS

Motorola announced new folding smartphones at Mobile World Congress this week, but the biggest news is coming out of left field: The Lenovo-owned company is partnering with the GrapheneOS Foundation to bring its Google-less Android version to businesses in a mainstream smartphone.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Motorola to bring GrapheneOS’s industry‑leading privacy and security‑focused mobile operating system to their next-generation smartphone,” a GrapheneOS statement reads. “This collaboration marks a significant milestone in expanding the reach of GrapheneOS, and we applaud Motorola for taking this meaningful step towards advancing mobile security.”

GrafeneOS is a privacy and security-focused mobile platform based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), so it provides Android app compatibility, albeit without any of the Google services integration. It features a hardened version of the Chromium web browser and it has “production support” for most supported Pixel devices.

With the Motorola partnership, the two companies will bring GrapheneOS to future devices that will be engineered specifically for this hardened OS. Motorola says it will communicate more about these plans in the coming months.

In addition to the partnership, Motorola also announced the Motorola Razr Fold with three 50 MP camera sensors and five camera lenses overall, the Motorola Edge 70 Fusion with a quad rear camera system, and the Moto Buds 2 Plus with Sound by Bose technology.