Issue mobile platform presented the latest version of /e/os 1.20, with a focus on ensuring user data confidentiality. This platform, founded by Gael Duval, the creator of the Mandrake Linux distribution, offers firmware for numerous smartphones, including popular models and brands such as Murena One, Murena Fairphone 3+/4, and Murena Teracube 2e. Additionally, editorial offices like OnePlus One, Fairphone 3+/4, and Teracube 2e are provided with predefined firmware/E/OS. Currently, there are 224 smartphones officially supported by the platform.
The firmware /E/OS has been developed as a branch from the Android platform, leveraging achievements from LineageOS. It is free from Google services and infrastructure, ensuring compatibility with Android applications while blocking telemetry transmission to Google servers for enhanced privacy. Implicit information sharing, such as network availability checks, DNS resolving, and time determination, is also prevented.
Preinstalled with a Microg Pack for interacting with Google services, /E/OS eliminates the need for proprietary components and offers independent alternatives to Google services. For instance, the platform uses Mozilla Location Service to determine location without GPS and a metasearch service based on Searx instead of Google search engine. NTP Pool Project is used for time synchronization and the current provider for DNS servers instead of Google’s 8.8.8.8.
Furthermore, the default web browser blocks advertisements and tracking scripts, and a custom service has been developed for file and application data synchronization, compatible with infrastructure based on Nextcloud. The server components are open-source and available for user-controlled system installations.
The user interface has also been significantly redesigned, featuring a proprietary application launcher environment called Blisslauncher.