- Murena is selling a Pixel Tablet with all Google software removed.
- The $549 tablet runs the Android-13 based /e/OS.
- Privacy advocates can feel secure that Google isn’t gathering their data.
For some people, choosing a mobile device that’s loaded with Google software is half the point. They want Gmail. They want YouTube. They’re bought in to Google’s ecosystem. And with Android, these shoppers are like a kid in a candy store, almost spoiled for choice. But there’s also another kind of mobile device user, one who will go to some effort to avoid Google software and services wherever possible. Privacy advocates like that are getting a new option with this week’s launch of the Murena Pixel Tablet.
We’ve seen Murena working before with companies like Fairphone to sell versions of its handsets running the de-Googled open-source /e/OS. Now it’s doing the same with Google’s own Pixel Tablet.