The Murena 2, the follow-up to final yr’s de-Googled and privacy-focused Murena One smartphone, is now out there to back on Kickstarter and has pulled in additional than $156,000, far exceeding its $26,437 objective.
The large replace for this new mannequin is a bodily privateness change that, when toggled on, disconnects the back and front cameras in addition to the microphones. (It’s form of just like the privateness switches we’ve seen for some laptops.) The Murena 2 additionally has a second bodily change that, when activated, flips on airplane mode to disconnect the telephone from networks and activates don’t disturb mode.
As for different {hardware} specs, the Murena 2 has a 6.43-inch display with a 1080 x 2400 decision, 128GB of storage, a 4,000mAh battery, and a MediaTek Helio P70 chip with 4 2.1GHz cores and 4 2GHz cores. For cameras, the Murena 2 has a 25MP entrance digital camera and a 64MP fundamental digital camera, a 13MP telephoto digital camera, and a 5MP wide-angle digital camera on the again.
Like the Murena One, the Murena 2 runs /e/OS, a fork of Android that doesn’t include any Google apps, that means the telephone has customized apps for issues like messaging and e mail. Nevertheless, you possibly can obtain Android apps from the App Lounge market. The apps do come from Google Play, although in the event you don’t wish to log in to a Google account to browse, you possibly can entry {the marketplace} anonymously to browse apps with out monitoring. (Nevertheless, in the event you look anonymously, you possibly can solely entry free apps, according to /e/OS documentation.)
In the event you’re fascinated about backing Murena 2, you’re already too late for the “tremendous early chook” and “duo early chook” (two telephones) tiers which have estimated supply dates of December. However the usual “early chook” (for €399 / about $425) and “trio early chook” (three telephones for €898 / about $957) tiers are nonetheless open, additionally with December supply dates, whereas the presale tier (for €449 / about $478) affords an estimated supply date of January 2024. (There are a handful of dearer tiers with December supply dates and extra rewards if these are of curiosity, too.)
There are 9 days left on the Kickstarter.