Volla phone (is back and) will be a new UT phone in 2020

[A Former User]

@Pookie said in Volla phone might be (or not) a new UT phone in 2020:

What I don't understand is that they already have a working prototype and are already porting UT on it...

This is a very good question.

[Pookie]

@Ingo
Well yes, Fairphone is the only successful example I know, for several failures (Ubuntu, Jolla...). I guess that fairphone offered a product that could find a broad audience, bring ethics in the smartphone world. Good shot

But for volla, what do they promise? Another piece of hardware. Okay, we have already too many of them and it becomes difficult to make a choice. A new android-based ROM focused on privacy. Well, the design looks okay, but nobody cares about this. There are already so many ways to tweak android... Ordinary people don't care about privacy and think that when they have an iPhone they're as far as they can on that point. People who really care about privacy already have solutions (Lineage with microg, /e/), some of them easily available for non-techs (/e/ pre-loaded on a Samsung).
There is the promise that they will support UT, and only for that I could consider investing on the product, because the hardware looks far better than pinephone. But if it is simply a clone of a gigaset model, as some have said here, we could hope to have the port available even if Volla fails...

[libremax]

Yesterday UBports has began to communicate about Volla Phone so I ask a question for next Q&A: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3360/ubuntu-touch-q-a-63-this-saturday-16th-of-november-at-19-00-utc/3

[Fla]

@libremax said in Volla phone might be (or not) a new UT phone in 2020:

Yesterday UBports has began to communicate about Volla Phone

Where?

[libremax]

@Fla Everywhere UBports is present: twitter, facebook, mastodon, telegram, this forum

[makeixo]

the specs sound a little like the GS290

[makeixo]

Volla Phone: the extended review of 2 prototypes on early 2020

[domubpkm]

I still find it hard to understand if we will go somewhere with this phone and if there will be a second campaign that will be able to convince or another form of approach to the user customer who needs concrete quickly and the concrete is the pinphone for the moment in my opinion (not yet in daily use it's true).

[Mic_]

What is the connecting between Volla Phone and Jolla ?

https://volla.online/

https://jolla.com/

[makeixo]

@Mic_ I dont think there is any.

[trainailleur]

Four letters and a rhyme.

It does lead to some confusion though.

[L-00393]

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[libremax]

Volla is back on kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volla/volla-phone-designed-with-simplicity-and-security-in-mind?ref=3sdaga

[Pookie]

Oh well this time it looks much more reasonnable.

[Fla]

6.3 inch screen? Dammit when will this stop, 5 is already too big for me...

[libremax]

Volla has "have reached the financing [low] target": https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volla/volla-phone-designed-with-simplicity-and-security-in-mind/posts/2745852

[AppLee]

@libremax Thanks for the update : that's great news. :bottle_with_popping_cork: :party_popper:

[DansLeRuSH]

Hi everybody, I have a small and maybe tricky (sorry about that) question about Volla Phone : It seems that is based on Gigaset GS290 (same specs and look). Is the UB's Volla Phone image could be used on the Gigaset ?

[flohack]

@DansLeRuSH You have to ask Volla, we have not participated in their experiments so far and we do not have either the image nor the device ^^

[DansLeRuSH]

@Flohack Ah ah OK, will I dare ? :grinning_face_with_sweat: (thank you for the answer by the way)