Murena /e/OS Tablet Review: Privacy for a Price
Murena /e/OS Tablet Review: Privacy for a Price
Murena /e/OS 平板电脑评测：为隐私支付的代价
€698 at Murena (EU-only) Murena 售价 698 欧元（仅限欧盟地区）
Rating: 5/10 评分：5/10
WIRED WIRED 观点
GREAT: Excellent privacy controls and defaults. No Google. Relatively few app incompatibilities. Hardware is powerful enough for casual tablet use. 优点： 出色的隐私控制和默认设置。无谷歌服务。应用不兼容的情况相对较少。硬件性能足以满足日常平板使用需求。
TIRED: Not all apps will work. Few tablet-specific /e/OS optimizations. Other tablets offer better value, albeit less privacy. 缺点： 并非所有应用都能运行。缺乏针对平板电脑的 /e/OS 优化。其他平板电脑性价比更高，尽管隐私保护稍逊一筹。
I can’t stand iOS devices, and I don’t much like Google’s Android system, either. As you might imagine, this makes shopping for a phone or tablet difficult. Fortunately there’s the GrapheneOS project, which means I can use a Google Pixel phone without Google, but there’s never been the equivalent for tablets. Technically you can load GrapheneOS on a Pixel tablet, but the Pixel tablet is too small for entertainment purposes. (In my house, the primary use for tablets is watching baseball games.) 我无法忍受 iOS 设备，也不太喜欢谷歌的 Android 系统。正如你所想，这让选购手机或平板电脑变得很困难。幸运的是，有了 GrapheneOS 项目，我可以使用没有谷歌服务的 Google Pixel 手机，但平板电脑领域一直没有类似的替代方案。从技术上讲，你可以在 Pixel 平板上安装 GrapheneOS，但 Pixel 平板对于娱乐用途来说太小了。（在我家，平板电脑的主要用途是观看棒球比赛。）
Earlier this year Murena, the company behind /e/OS, began selling a tablet that’s both Google-free and bigger than the Pixel. It’s not perfect, but after months of testing I’d call it the best privacy-respecting, de-Googled tablet you can buy right now. 今年早些时候，/e/OS 背后的公司 Murena 开始销售一款既无谷歌服务、尺寸又比 Pixel 更大的平板电脑。它并不完美，但经过几个月的测试，我认为它是目前你能买到的最注重隐私、去谷歌化的平板电脑。
A Tablet Without Google
一款没有谷歌的平板电脑
Murena’s /e/OS-based tablet was developed in collaboration with German-based hardware maker Volla. The version Murena sells comes preloaded with Android-based /e/OS (see our full review of the phone version of /e/OS), which has some optimizations for tablets and offers (optional) integration with Murena cloud services as an alternative to Google. Murena 的这款基于 /e/OS 的平板电脑是与德国硬件制造商 Volla 合作开发的。Murena 销售的版本预装了基于 Android 的 /e/OS（请参阅我们对 /e/OS 手机版的完整评测），该系统针对平板电脑进行了一些优化，并提供（可选的）Murena 云服务集成，作为谷歌服务的替代方案。
The Volla tablet has a 12.6-inch, 2560 x 1600-pixel, 240-ppi screen that’s plenty bright and sharp, and has pretty color depth. It might not win any accolades from photographers or graphic designers, but that’s not really the market here. It’s great for watching movies, browsing the web, doing the sort of office work people do on tablets, or, in my case, watching MLB, although there is an issue with that which I will get to in a bit. Volla 平板电脑配备了一块 12.6 英寸、2560 x 1600 分辨率、240 ppi 的屏幕，亮度充足且清晰，色彩深度表现不错。它可能无法赢得摄影师或平面设计师的青睐，但这并非其目标市场。它非常适合看电影、浏览网页、处理平板办公任务，或者像我一样观看 MLB 比赛，尽管这方面存在一个问题，我稍后会提到。
Inside the Volla is an Octa-core, MediaTek Helio G99 chip—which, while not the fastest mobile chip around, was plenty speedy enough for web browsing and watching 4K video. The only place I would see this chip as a limiting factor is in gaming. For that, you’d probably want something more powerful. Volla 内部搭载了联发科 Helio G99 八核芯片。虽然它不是市面上最快的移动芯片，但对于网页浏览和观看 4K 视频来说已经足够快了。我认为这颗芯片唯一的局限性在于游戏方面。如果你有游戏需求，可能需要性能更强的设备。
Along with the processor you get 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of built-in storage space. There are no additional configuration options, and disappointingly there’s no microSD card slot to expand the storage. There is a sim card slot, though, and I was able to use the tablet on T-Mobile’s network without any issues. 除了处理器，你还能获得 12 GB 的运行内存和 512 GB 的内置存储空间。没有其他配置选项，令人失望的是，它没有 microSD 卡槽来扩展存储空间。不过，它确实有一个 SIM 卡槽，我可以在 T-Mobile 网络上毫无问题地使用这款平板电脑。
The version of /e/OS that ships with the Volla is based on Android 14, which is a little behind at this point, but is at least the release which saw Google finally add a few features that make it easier for developers to build apps for large screens. Any apps taking advantage of these features should work just fine on /e/OS. Volla 预装的 /e/OS 版本基于 Android 14，虽然目前版本稍显滞后，但至少该版本中谷歌终于增加了一些功能，使开发者更容易为大屏幕构建应用。任何利用这些功能的应用在 /e/OS 上应该都能正常运行。
For its part, Murena has not added any tablet-specific tools to /e/OS, the way Samsung and OnePlus have built their own productivity-enhancing UIs for their tablets. You get the features of stock Android 14 in the form of split screen apps, but that’s about it in terms of tablet-specific features. The main appeal is, of course, the privacy-focused /e/OS and the lack of Google Services installed on the Volla. Instead, you get Murena’s services (optional), or you can do what I do and use your own web services (a mix of Syncthing and NextCloud with some other odds and ends). Either way, you get to start without Google. Murena 并没有像三星或一加那样为 /e/OS 添加任何平板电脑专属工具来提升生产力。你只能获得原生 Android 14 的分屏功能，除此之外几乎没有平板专属特性。当然，它的主要卖点是注重隐私的 /e/OS 以及 Volla 上没有预装谷歌服务。取而代之的是 Murena 的服务（可选），或者你可以像我一样使用自己的网络服务（结合 Syncthing、NextCloud 以及其他一些工具）。无论哪种方式，你都可以摆脱谷歌开始使用。
This does mean that there can be issues with apps. As I noted in my review of /e/OS, some banking apps in particular seem to have issues with microG, which is what /e/OS uses instead of Google’s various APIs and tools. On this tablet, I ran into another issue that could possibly be related to microG (though it could also be hardware-related). 这意味着应用可能会出现问题。正如我在 /e/OS 评测中指出的那样，一些银行应用在使用 microG（/e/OS 用来替代谷歌各种 API 和工具的组件）时似乎存在问题。在这款平板电脑上，我遇到了另一个可能与 microG 相关的问题（尽管也可能是硬件问题）。
Whatever the case, I could not stream live games on the MLB app. Every time I opened a stream, the app simply crashed. At first I was tempted to blame MLB, since it seems that MLB’s primarily goal is make watching baseball as miserable as possible for fans, but then streaming works fine in the MLB app on my GrapheneOS phone. That suggests that the issue is either the Volla tablet, or, most likely, some incompatibility between what the app wants and microG offers. To its credit, though, this was the only issue I had in terms of /e/OS incompatibility with apps. 无论如何，我无法在 MLB 应用上观看直播比赛。每次打开直播，应用就会崩溃。起初我倾向于责怪 MLB，因为 MLB 的主要目标似乎就是让球迷看球尽可能痛苦，但同样的应用在我的 GrapheneOS 手机上却能正常播放。这表明问题要么出在 Volla 平板电脑上，要么最可能是应用需求与 microG 提供的功能之间存在不兼容。不过值得称赞的是，这是我在 /e/OS 应用兼容性方面遇到的唯一问题。
The larger issue I have with the Volla tablet, as Murena is packaging it, is the value. At 689 euros (currently about $820), the Volla is more expensive than our top-pick Android tablet, the OnePlus Pad 3. The extra hundred dollars for the privacy features of an /e/OS Volla tablet might be OK if performance were equal, but it’s definitely not. The OnePlus Pad 3 features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, which is powerful enough for gaming and multitasking in a way that Volla just isn’t. 我对 Murena 包装的这款 Volla 平板电脑最大的不满在于性价比。689 欧元（约合 820 美元）的售价比我们首选的 Android 平板电脑——一加 Pad 3 还要贵。如果性能相当，为 /e/OS Volla 平板的隐私功能多花一百美元或许还可以接受，但事实并非如此。一加 Pad 3 搭载了高通骁龙 8 至尊版芯片，其游戏和多任务处理能力远超 Volla。
OnePlus’ OxygenOS also has some nice features tailored to working on a tablet that are missing in /e/OS. Much more on par with the /e/OS Volla in terms of performance is something like the Lenovo Idea Tab Pro ($340), which is half the price (often less than half on sale). 一加的 OxygenOS 还有一些针对平板办公的实用功能，而 /e/OS 则缺失这些功能。在性能上与 /e/OS Volla 更接近的设备是联想 Idea Tab Pro（340 美元），它的价格只有前者的一半（促销时甚至不到一半）。
As much as I like /e/OS, I have a hard time recommending this tablet. Since it’s not available in the US anyway, for most WIRED readers it’s a moot point. If you’re in the EU and you’re looking to get away from US-based hardware and software, the Volla looks a little more compelling, though you still have to be willing to pay a premium for your privacy. 尽管我很喜欢 /e/OS，但我很难推荐这款平板电脑。由于它在美国无法购买，对于大多数 WIRED 读者来说，这毫无意义。如果你身处欧盟，并且希望摆脱美国品牌的硬件和软件，Volla 看起来稍微有吸引力一些，尽管你必须愿意为隐私支付溢价。