Mar 22Murena & /e/OS — a product roadmap for 2022: towards our V1?It’s interesting to have a look back at our past year roadmap: most of the features we announced are either done or close to be completed, which is not too bad! The two things that have shown very little progress are the Smart Assistant project, and the energy efficiency project. …Degoogled5 min read
Oct 19, 2021Murena smartphones and cloud will protect our privacyMore than ever the market is demanding a new approach for digital products: more and more people around the world want something different, more ethical, more sustainable, with real guarantees about personal data protection. Four years ago, I wanted to break free from Google and Apple, and therefore we…Privacy3 min read
Apr 29, 2021/e/ & 2021: the year everything is going to change (2/2) — A product roadmapIn the first part of this article, we explained that /e/ has a primary focus on user’s data privacy, circular economy and energy, and that it is fully inline with the global trend seeking to reduce the negative impact of tech in general and helping creating a new paradigm to…Degoogled6 min read
Apr 27, 2021Google abuse of dominant position: some facts about the Google Android operating system and personal data collection.This is a first collection of facts about what happens in the Google Android operating system in term of permanent personal data collection. This has been found while working on /e/OS the mobile OS in which we actually try to address those issues. Note: if you want to share or…Degoogled4 min read
Mar 24, 2021/e/ & 2021: the year everything is going to change (1/2) — IntroductionThree years after /e/ - the Google-free ecosystem - came to be, things have never moved as fast as they are now. We’re seeing a lot of traction in terms of new users, of new /e/ accounts, and of /e/-smartphones sales. We’re also getting noticed in many posts and press…Degoogled4 min read
Nov 20, 2020“Elivia”: towards an /e/ smart assistant?In only about 5 years only, AI-driven smart assistants have become a common usage for many us. We find them on websites, to catch visitors attention or potential customers, we find them integrated in connected speakers, mostly by Google, Amazon and Apple, and of course they also are present in…Smart Assistant4 min read
Oct 2, 2020/e/OS and the (not)Android user interfaceHere I’m talking about the /e/OS approach regarding the user interface, and upcoming changes. It might seem odd that at /e/, we put some energy and some development effort into the end-user user interface. We are a pro-privacy, deGoogled, mobile operating system, right? The reason behind this, is double: 1…Degoogled4 min read
Sep 29, 2020/e/OS redefines the mobile operating system paradigm for a more sustainable worldTwo years ago, /e/OS was envisioned as a fully deGoogled mobile operating system (OS) and associated online services that focus on personal data privacy. That initial vision is growing, and the result is that in addition to being a great alternative to Apple and Google, it is progressively paving the…Degoogled5 min read
Jun 30, 2020Why don’t /e/ smartphones ship to the USA (yet)? (updated January 2021)It is nearly one year now that we started to ship our first phones with /e/ OS, the pro-privacy, deGoogled, mobile ecosystem. [Update January 2021: we will be starting shipping first /e/-smartphones to the US on early February 2021 from https://esolutions.shop Subscribe to our newsletter to be updated when it’s available…Smartphones3 min read
Feb 26, 20202020 and the minority spreading hate and fake newsAt the age of 12, as my computer knowledge was notably increasing, I remember I’ve eventually been shocked to read something totally wrong in a magazine. Someone wrote something that was factually false. This made me realize that until this date, I used to think that everything that was written…Fake News3 min read