@Mario.CH said:

I feel the need to highlight the amount of work involved in creating something that’s “nice to have.”

Hi Mario,
I understand (from an AI search) that porting a device can often take 300 hours of time, working part time, over a period of many months. And developers work for free.

My point here is the latter half of your sentence quoted above.

Trying not to be harsh here either, but ...
We are all talking about cellular phones here.
The thing that differentiates a pocket computer from a cellular phone is the ability to make VOICE calls.
IF the device CANNOT make voice calls then it should be called 'Pocket Computer', and not cellular phone.
Since other phones I have (iPhone and Pixels) CAN make voice calls using VoLTE, and when cell service is weak, Voice calls over WiFi, it would seem to be a CORE functionality, NOT a 'nice to have'.
If a device can't do something that is core functionality, it seems that should be very clearly stated.

@Moem said:

@oldbutndy said:

Since you are working on the whole group, could you add WiFi Calling to every device page ?

That's a change to the structure of the page itself. @sm-xcx is working on the contents of the page, which is a different thing. I'm not saying that your idea is bad, it's simply outside the scope of what they are doing.

Ahh.
Previously, someone was recently able to clarify functionality of VoLTE for devices, by adding info to pages.
I thought that adding the functionality of WiFi calling next to that might be possible.

When I first was learning about this, it was not clear that just because VoLTE calling worked, did NOT mean WiFi calling would work.
Since I spent huge time, and $100 on a PHONE, to make primarily VOICE calls, and also send TXT messages, and rarely search online, or maybe take a picture, it turns out, at this point in time, to be a failed effort.
I already owned a better phone - P 4XL, running LineageOS 23 & capable of WiFi calls.
I thought I would buy a phone specifically to run UT, and replace the 4XL, and possibly add occasional Desktop Convergence (4XL can't do that).
It might be possible to do this in the future, but from what I can tell, not today, and maybe not for 6 more months (if then). [actually, I could spend $300 on a cell boost amplifier. NOT cost effective !]
My suggestions were made to help others NOT waste time and money, if their need was to have a phone to make voice calls today, especially where cellular was not working well.