Community meeting on IRC 9th June 2022

The “rephone” specifications hint that its hardware seems to be identical to the Volla Phone 22 specifications and the specifications of the Gigaset GS5. I.e., they likely are all are a Gigaset GS5 in terms of the hardware, but Volla offers it with “alternative” operating systems pre-installed: “Volla OS”, which is a Google-free / AOSP-based Android (likely based on LineageOS), and Ubuntu Touch / UBports. Because the “rephone” seems to run a “stock” Android by Google (there is no indication of any “tweaks” to the OS stack being made), it likely is identical to the Gigaset GS5.

Unfortunately the Gigaset GS5 / Volla Phone 22 / rephone uses a Mediatec SoC (Helio G85), which makes porting SailfishOS a bit harder, but so does the original Volla Phone (based on the Gigaset GS290) and the PlanetCom Gemini PDA, to which SailfishOS has been ported successfully (albeit with a few caveats compared to the Sony Xperias, of which the officially and community supported models all use Qualcomm SoCs).

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