Mobile Phone OS

/e/ mobile phone operating system

Imagine mobile phones running a desirable operating system, at a reasonable cost. Not running Google or any other “data hungry” services.

And at the same time, mobile phone operating systems where personal and corporate users can install and use the mainstream applications of their choice, if they wish so.

That’s what /e/ is going to provide: attractive mobile phone operating systems with better privacy.

Our mobile phone OS roadmap

Is /e/ mobile phone OS available? Yes! A first beta is now available. You can test it on a selection of devices. A full description of this release is available online in this article.

This year we will begin selling the first mobile phones, which will be “post market” phones, i.e. phones that we buy, flash with the /e/ system and sell to customers.

/e/ is also already seeking hardware partners and resellers that would be interested in preloading /e/ for mass-market release.

2018 Roadmap:

June 2018: early access to /e/ email for /e/ backers
July 2018: early access to /e/ drive for /e/ backers
August 2018: /e/ OS beta (MVP) release with several web services (search, app store)
September 2018: /e/ OS source code release on /e/ GitLab
September 2018: /e/ email and drive open to more users
October 2018: smartphones with /e/ OS start shipping to /e/ backers
January 2019: smartphones with /e/ OS start selling

Supported devices

At the moment, we’re developing for LeEco Le2, Xiaomi Mi5S and Essential Phone PH1. The list of devices currently supported by /e/ is available here.

It will grow over time, but possibly not all devices from this list will be officially supported if they become obsolete.

On the other hand, as /e/ will be open-source, we count on the community to support and maintain /e/ for rare devices.

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/e/ is in the public interest – support us!

/e/’s mission is to provide an open-source mobile operating system and associated web-services that:

respect your data privacy
that are desirable enough for Mom, Dad and children

Want our mission to succeed?

Want /e/ to become THE main alternative to the mobile OS duopole in place?

Please support us! Contribute, talk about the project, make a donation (and receive a reward)…