This is not official yet but it would be great to see another manufacturer improving this much their support length.
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Maybe Iâm being nostalgic but Iâve always loved that Motorola symbol. From the Razor days, I always thought they were a low key cool company that doesnât make headlines.
But so glad manufacturers are starting to use length of updates as a feature of the device because itâs starting to matter a lot more. Only wish phones were not huge these days. I want a 5.8 inch (iPhone 10 size) at most. Itâs large enough!
Could this long support length imply potential OEM that GOS is going to choose?
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make it iPhone 13 mini size, bring it back damnit
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But a little thicker for the battery life. But yeah.. even better for one hand use.
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no just use silicon carbon battery, same density as say if hypothetically was to come out under iPhone 19 mini, say you have the battery of the 17 or 18, tucked into the same mini form factor, no thickness add needed. The proof is in the chinese phones and it baffles me Apple and Samsung did not adopt this battery tech
same thickness, similar dimension, bigger battery, this is the power of silicon carbon
They have supply chains that rival nation states. So they seem to be set in their ways to maximize the best deal for the materials they need to build their products and consequently maximize their profit margin. It has nothing to do with anything else but money.
But sure, I do want these companies to find innovative tech to improve their tech. But having moved away from Apple now, this isnât my fight anymore. Iâm too tired to keep wanting the right things. Iâm happy living simply with the tech I can work for myself and now work for it to keep using it.
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silicon carbon is not anymore expensive if not ouright the same as lithium ion if not cheaper, if it was expensive we would see it in only like sub 600-700+ Chinese (Chinese Yuan to USD price) flagships but nope even budget phones from chinese brands have silicon carbon so it doesnât cost anything more to produce or even supply those batteries
I see
Well, then I donât know why Apple may not be going for it but there has to be a reason. And Iâm willing to bet itâs more likely than not about money still for why they have not explored this.
if not Apple whatâs samsung doing right? This is what baffles me again
Literally its right there and it has been proven and both companies are sleeping on it with no explanation.
I think Apple is waiting for it to mature and then include it only after incorporating current feedback from enthusiasts on Android. As for Samsung I think they were burnt by battery before (the Note explosions) so they usually lag in battery compared to Chinese flagships.
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there are no excuses for Apple, Samsung and Google, Silicon Carbon is actually more efficient so they wont have the problem samsung had with the note 7 and it wasnt the density that the note 7 was causing fire it was something else. It has already been proven to be reliable by many companies (including motorola now) and it is about time Google, Samsung and Apple step up.
sparing companies that have billions of dollars they can put to R&D and manufacturer is not something I like to see or to be strived for and to excuse them to keep using lithium ion
I personally find anything under 6.7 inches unusable as they feel cramped to use, itâs hard to view images, and my flow of texting and surfing just suffers.
For what itâs worth, one of their engineers was lurking around in the GOS Discord server in midâJune 2025 in âunofficialâ capacity to learn more about what it takes to support it. That also happens to be the month they started their OEM collaboration.
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Did not know this.
Paraphrasing Deepthroat, follow the crumbs.
Motorola may just be it.
I expect to find out this is all a big ruse and the official GOS partner is actually Google or something
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Considering the chip confirmation this isnât the case at all