- the /e/ OS "easy" installer is now available in beta! and your can join the project to improve it!
- get your /e/-Fairphone 3

This week's newsletter is available in: English, French, German, Italian and Russian online at:
https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-google-e-os-installer-in-beta-pre-order-your-e-fairphone-3/

Hello, in this week's newsletter:
- the new Apps installer v2 is now available in /e/OS. More apps, updated faster and web applications! Update now...
- /e/-Fairphone 3 have started to ship, now in stock.
Read all the details in 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇷🇺🇪🇸🇳🇱 at:
https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-google-new-apps-installer-is-available-e-fairphone-3-in-stock-and-shipping/

To /e/-Fairphone 3 users: we have pushed an OTA update that fixes the sound issue with some audio calls done with applications such as Signal or Telegram.

Please update /e/ OS: go to Settings->System->Updater and refresh to download and install the latest release of /e/ OS from our servers.

✉ To ecloud.global users: we are experiencing some issues with our mail services. We are working on it and we hope we can be able to have them up and running soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

We are back to a normal situation.

Some users have received a message from Google that announces that the /e/ mail app will soon be prevented to use Gmail accounts. Please read more about it and how to fix at:
https://community.e.foundation/t/e-os-mail-application-and-gmail/18390

🕓 📢 Important message to /e/ users: a major maintenance operation is scheduled today starting at 16:00 CEST. Access to @e.email and any ecloud.global features, including data synchronization, will be impossible for several hours. All details and further updates at: https://community.e.foundation/t/ecloud-global-maintenance-scheduled-today-16-00-cest/18432

Interested in porting /e/ OS to a specific smartphone? We have started a documentation to help developers... Read more below!
https://community.e.foundation/t/a-generic-guide-on-porting-e-os-to-any-device/18449

We're pleased to announce that all /e/ online services are up and running again: mail, calendar, contacts, notes, automatic synchronization from /e/ devices... Read our message at: https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-google-important-message-to-e-users-ecloud-global-is-back-online/
Thank you for your patience and the warm support messages we received during these days!

e Foundation announces official support of microG development
Read more at:
https://e.foundation/e-foundation-announces-official-support-of-microg-development/

Please note: On August 20th, starting at 4:30 AM CEST, our ecloud service will be interrupted for a few hours as we launch an infrastructure update. This will also impact email use for a short time.

Status update: our ecloud infrastructure update is going as planned and still running. Thank you for your patience and support!

Hi everyone, some users seem to encounter some issues related to eCloud-/e/OS syncing with the latest /e/OS OTA update. Please check this post and report if it works for you https://community.e.foundation/t/ecloud-possible-issues-with-syncing-content-please-test/20488

Today, we announce that the e Foundation is getting a financial grant from the SIDN Fund to develop an integrated "privacy center" for Android, and improve PWA app support in /e/OS.
https://e.foundation/e-foundation-announces-financial-grant-from-sidn-fund/

Two years ago, /e/OS was envisioned as a pro-privacy, fully deGoogled, mobile OS and associated online services. In addition to being a great alternative to Apple and Google, it is progressively paving the way to a better and more sustainable IT world.
https://medium.com/@gael_duval/e-os-redefines-the-mobile-operating-system-paradigm-for-a-more-sustainable-world-4e929b1010c?source=friends_link&sk=0ce4ce71a64a76ebeb015a3deb5c1130