I would like to have some details on what hardware security features this phone provides.
The google pixel 8, 9 and 10 provides some security enhancing features and I am wonderinghow this device compares to the pixel 9, for instance.
Does it have hardware attestation?
Is there separation of modem processor and application processor to reduce attack surface on modem based attacks?
Does it have hardware based key store?
Maybe it’s easier if you list the security features it supports 
I didn’t see this question answered.
I see the bootloader is unlocked, but can it be relocked and pass safetynet and “Play Integrity” either via hardware or spoofed attestation?
Alternatively, can it be rooted and operate effectively (for example with magisk and/or other Quality of Life tweaks)?
Hi just replying to this to say the phone comes with a fully locked Bootloader
Whether it can be unlocked and rooted I will ask
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We are pioneers in secure communications with a long history of innovation, driven by two simple principles:
1. True privacy must be considered and enforced at the hardware level. Software alone is too easily exploited — and the incentives to do so are too great.
2. Security and Privacy technologies must be convenient or they will either be ignored or improperly used. (Shout out to everyone carrying a secure work phone in one pocket and a standard iPhone or Samsung in the other.)
HIROH, LLC is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
1309 Coffeen Avenue Suite 1200
Sheridan, WY 82801+1 (443) 42-HIROH
I found your post very interesting. I also moved to Linux from Windows in about 2010. I have read a lot of books about Edward Snowden which helped me to understand the importance of privacy focussed devices. But, up until about a year ago, I was using an iphone and an iPad. And then, the UK government forced Apple to withdraw encryption of Apple cloud services from UK customers. I already had heard of Murena by then. I immediately ordered a phone from them, and a little later, Murena Google Pixel tablet. I ceased using Apple devices at that point and cleaned out / closed my Apple accounts.
I am very happy with this change and wished that I had done it earlier. I hope that you will be happy with your move to Murena, as well.
Welcome to the forum!
Here’s what you couldn’t find.
But no worries, the forum is a complex labyrinth at times and being around for a while helps a lot with navigating.
Bonjour @celestinia ,
thank you very much for showing us your way to Linux and /e/OS,
and thus to more privacy.
So, it’s now February. Just wondering if anything further is known about when the HIROH phones are coming, if there’s been any delays, etc?
I jumped off last month for an fair alternative
Any updates on Hiroh release?
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Still Delivery in February 2026 but no more informations for people who pre-order it.
Hiroh’s been pushed back to June 2026, i assume cause ram etc shortage.
Colour me shocked. Yep, it could be due to the much discussed RAM shortage or it could possible be that Hiroh LLC are a bunch of chancers. A middleman looking to profit off of Murena’s established and loyal community.
Who knows?
Perhaps in four months time the RAM shortage will be resolved and my cynicism of the characters behind the entity called Hiroh LLC will leave me embarassed.
Embarassed even more than like on their website when they say they’re headquartered in Texas yet their advertised address on the website is in Wyoming. I have heard that Texas is geographically really big but I didn’t realise that it is so big it contains an entire other US state too.
LOL, but how was that… a huge joke. To the team behind Murena, please focus on the hardware.
