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An iPhone or an Android smartphone collects several megabytes of your personal data every day to Google Servers, even when it is inactive.

Murena smartphones have been designed to offer a different approach to users who care about privacy and data-hungry handsets.

Those smartphones are running the open-source “/e/OS” operating system, which is fully “deGoogled”: by default it doesn’t send any data to Google and it’s been designed to offer a great and natural user experience.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I installed it on my Fairephone4. Have to say i'm pretty impressed, everything works fine including maps and bank application. They really managed microG well.

The only probleme I got in the last 6 month is that I can't installe paying app on my phone. I created a google account to connect to the app store but the page to pay just never load. That's not a big deal for me anyway.

I recommend if your phone is compatible.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar experiences on the Fairphone 3. MicroG is fantastic - everything you unfortunately need from Google services, but in a way that maintains your privacy.

At least on the Fairphone 3, downloading an apk for the Google camera app turned out to be a lifesaver though - the open source camera applications were unfortunately not capable of producing as good pictures, which is very important to me. :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fairphone seems to work close together with eOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't contactless payment apps work on any deGoogled operating system. They require Google services which have been removed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You couldn't pay on Aurora Store?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Never use aurora with ur Google's account except u don't mind to loose it.