/e/OS - e Foundation - deGoogled unGoogled smartphone operating systems and online services - your data is your data
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ECOSYSTEMKEY FEATURESGET /E/OSNEED HELP /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled”, mobile ecosystem /e/OS is an open-source mobile operating system paired with carefully selected applications. They form a privacy-enabled internal system for your smartphone. And it’s not just claims: open-source means auditable privacy. /e/OS has received academic recognition from researchers at…

When i was considerong buying a fairphone, fairphones with e/os came up and wondered if it was a good option for privacy.

I do not like pixels, and would love nothing to do with that phone. I prefer my one plus and if i can keep that still have my privacy, that would be nice.

E/os can be put on different android phones my one plus included.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Been using it for few months now a CMF Phone 1 by Nothing https://cmf.tech/en-be/pages/phone-1 thanks to Murena, specifically https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-cmf-phone-1/

    I could have probably set that up myself but I wanted

    • not to be bothered, i.e. buy a phone, put my SIM card on, move on
    • financially contribute to the support of deGoogling

    and this felt like the most pragmatic compromise.

    So far it’s been doing exactly what I wanted, namely :

    • make phone calls (duh, it IS a phone after all)
    • integrate seamlessly with my Linux setup thanks to KDE Connect (including sending/receiving SMS from my desktop)
    • be stable (crashes maybe once a week at most, usually due to specific apps)
    • be able to install apps without having any account, neither Google nor Murena
    • be able to install apps from F-Droid

    so IMHO it’s a great alternative to either iOS (and thus be stuck with US Big Tech with heavy lock down for developer and constant lock-in attempts) or Googled Android (clear no for me) or deGoogled but requiring quite a bit of tinkering.

    All in all I spent more time explaining why I liked in online and offline than setting anything up so I’d argue it was well worth the extra 100 EUR to have it installed on hardware that was known to support it well.

    PS: few more notes https://fabien.benetou.fr/Tools/Android#MurenaCMFPhone1

    • pandorabox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Thanks for the suggestion❤️ ill check that out.

      Knowing myself if i tried to flash an os, i would brick my phone🤣🤣🤣 despite me being in this lemmy sub, im not good with tech🤣

      In a few years, ill be looking into that🙌

      How do you use kde connect? Im curious about that❤️

      • utopiah@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 days ago

        On KDE Connect it’s to

        • receive notification,
        • read and send SMS,
        • read and send files e.g. photo, podcast for mp3, videos to watch, etc
          • utopiah@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 days ago

            It’s pretty cool indeed, it’s like having Apple integration between your devices… without being lock-in a proprietary ecosystem.