Exclusive: Google picks a MediaTek modem for the Pixel 10 series
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In an unexpected move, Google has decided to use a next-gen Mediatek modem in its upcoming Pixel 10 series phones.
  • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
    29·
    6 days ago

    I wonder what this will mean for custom roms. Mediatek are among the only chipsets with available microcode and therefor e.g. supported by OpenWRT, which gives me hope.

    • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      OpenWrt mentioned!!!

      also I feel like google knows they’ll lose like 25% of their phone market share if they dont allow custom ROMs on pixels. No one’s buying a pixel for the “status” and it is not a budget device by any means.

    • pirat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Would you want to run OpenWRT on the phone? If yes, why? I’m genuinely interested in examples of actual use cases.

      Or are you hoping something new will emerge that takes advantage of the MediaTek chipset, similar to what OpenWRT already does for routers etc. but with a slightly different, smartphone-focused approach?

      • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        I was just trying to say that i hope that the creators of custom roms will still be able to do their work, which i don’t take for granted. Google doesn’t make their money with the phones themselves but with the data they get from the os thats running on them.

        • Markaos@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          5 days ago

          The CPU is still Google’s Tensor, and the modem on current Pixels is already a blackbox that custom ROMs interact with using binary blobs ripped from the official ROM. There isn’t much that could get worse with this change.

        • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          Oh bullshit. Google is charging as much as Apple. They are making money off of the phone sales.