Murena /e/OS Tablet Review: Privacy for a Price

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Murena's /e/OS tablet offers an iPadOS- and Google-free, privacy-friendly tablet experience, but you'll have to pay for it.

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WIRED Great privacy controls and defaults. No Google. Relatively few app incompatibilities. Hardware is powerful enough for casual tablet use. TIRED Not all apps will work. Few tablet-specific /e/OS optimizations. Other tablets offer better value, albeit less privacy. I can t stand iOS devices, and I don t much like Google’s Android system , either. As you might imagine, this makes shopping for a phone or tablet difficult. Fortunately there s the GrapheneOS project, which means I can use Google Pixel phone without Google, but there s never been the equivalent for tablets. Technically you can load GrapheneOS on Pixel tablet, but the Pixel tablet is too small for entertainment purposes. (In my house, the primary use for tablets is watching baseball games.)

Earlier this year Murena, the company behind /e/OS, began selling a tablet that s both Google-free and bigger than the Pixel. It s not perfect, but after months of testing I d call it the best privacy-respecting, de-Googled tablet you can buy right now.

Murena s /e/OS-based tablet was developed in collaboration with German-based hardware maker Volla. The version Murena sells comes preloaded with Android-based /e/OS (see our full review of the phone version of /e/OS ), which has some optimizations for tablets and offers (optional) integration with Murena cloud services as an alternative to Google.

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