Agreed. That could be pretty cool. Motorola devices are already solid and reasonnably priced; if they had a GrapheneOS line that would just be fantastic.
Motorola devices are terrible due to Motorola's update policy. Usually only 1-2 new Android versions max and then 2-3 years of quarterly security updates.
For this GrapheneOS partnership to work, Graphene would need enough control of the software stack to offer around 7 years of updates.
Lenovo abused their BIOS many years ago in such a way that it would load malware when it detected NTFS.
I hope that behavior is long over.
https://www.theregister.com/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nasty...