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Motorola is a Lenovo-owned brand making Android phones and foldables under the Moto name; Motorola Solutions makes public-safety tech separately.
Motorola is preparing phones that ship with GrapheneOS preinstalled and seven years of patches, according to a dev.to post citing CNET. Security teams would get a hardened Android phone without first buying a Pixel and flashing it themselves.
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Motorola's stable Android 17 update has reached four US phones, including the Razr Ultra (2026) and Edge 60 Pro, PhoneArena reported. Delivery is staged by region, carrier and variant, so identical phones in one fleet can run different versions at once.
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Sen. Ron Wyden wants the White House drug office to publish a 2024 MITRE privacy review covering its federal plate-reader database. His letter puts a senator's name behind 404 Media's finding that city plate data from Flock, Axon and Motorola cameras reaches federal databases through local agreements.
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Sens. Josh Hawley and Bernie Sanders introduced license-plate camera bills within three days, each covering every ALPR vendor, including Motorola and Axon. Departments that left Flock for a rival in recent weeks would sit under the same rules.
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Google shipped Android 17 QPR1 to Pixels on September 15 with 84 new APIs and held its source back from AOSP until December. Non-Pixel fleets and custom ROMs wait a quarter for those APIs and, according to GrapheneOS, for fixes to shared Android code.
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Sen. Josh Hawley's bill would make agencies permanently delete license-plate reader data within 10 days unless a criminal investigation is open. Police who trace where a car went weeks ago would lose that search in any case not yet opened.
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Memory tagging and secure element maturity, not brand, now set the qualifying list; the first Motorola devices land in 2027, priced above a Pixel line that starts at $900.
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The Signature 27 gets Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, but the specifications Motorola chose to publish are a 200MP periscope telephoto, a bigger vapor chamber and seven years of updates.
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Qualcomm's first 2nm flagships come in two tiers. The 30-billion-parameter on-device ceiling and the 18MB of high-performance memory sit in the Extreme only, and both tiers will be sold as flagship phones.
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Republicans and Democrats on the Senate crime subcommittee both objected that plate reader vendors leave abuse detection to the police departments buying the cameras, and the four invited chief executives did not appear.
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Qualcomm's new top-tier Snapdragon can run a 30-billion-parameter model on the handset. The memory that makes on-device AI work is also the cost Counterpoint blames for an expected 14% fall in 2026 shipments.
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Tom's Guide measured a 16% CPU gain on a Qualcomm Reference Design whose battery it calls unrepresentative. Apple's A20 Pro still leads single-core, and the Snapdragon's clearest win was lower gaming wattage.
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The city's report on its 2025 Flock trial says data went to outside law enforcement agencies while both the agreement and the company said sharing was off, and hackers separately pulled people and bicycle detections off a camera.
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9to5Google published leaked Motorola design sketches only after a wireless charging listing turned up carrying the same Lenovo/Motorola watermark. The sketches describe a bezel-less cover display and a fold with no crease.
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The Verge's hands-on found no hardware first on Apple's foldable and several places it trails Samsung, Oppo and Honor, which leaves the software case resting on a dock that moved to the right edge.
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The 30% is one month of company-supplied volume in a category Counterpoint put below 2% of unit sales last year, which makes the switching rate, not the growth rate, the number Apple's $2,100 entry has to justify.
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Samsung has stopped rationing what the Z Flip 8's outer screen can run, which leaves the reviewer at The Verge arguing that the apps behaving badly at 4 inches are what keeps the phone from eating 20 minutes.
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Xiaomi and Oppo together ship 23 percent of the world's phones and neither reaches a US carrier shelf, so a device matrix drawn from American analytics omits the hardware most users hold, at the prices they actually pay.
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The department let its Flock agreement lapse over data ownership, yet 138 city cameras keep filling a cloud it cannot read. The replacement deal is a spec sheet of data terms.
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Filings show million-dollar-plus buys and sales landing on June 18, a day after an interim Iran deal was signed. The White House says a computer picked them, and the paperwork cannot say otherwise.
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