New Phone on horizon?

xperia 10 II plus has been canceled and after the new year we are waiting for 10 III with 5G

They already deliver the phones …

I backed the volla phone (with UBTouch pre-installed) in the kickstarter campaign.
I received my phone- as communicated in that campaign- in the end of october.

They said in november they want to open a shop, where you can buy it.
In the volla telegram channel they said until then you can also contact them via mail to buy a phone.

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Thx you all for your information.
Volla phone is without Android, isnt it?
Xperia 10 III is to long to go.

it was not planed, but i use now the grapheneos with a pixel 4a. for me it has a good form, clean android 11 and really good photos.
i will use the X as 2. phone.

I think it will be awesome to try to get in he horizon a european brand telefon like volla, or shiftphone , fairphone, bq , …it will give more sense to the idea of a full european product. It will be great if Jolla could hear that

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i just got into a phone made in Germany called CarbonMobile , and just thinking that it could be great to talk to them about SailfishOS. I wrote to them recently and they were interesting in supporting other OS than Android.

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Looks nice, I just hope it’s not going to be Turing Phone 2.0.

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whats that? i dont know that storie

Oh, boy, that’s a crazy one. I’m not the best person to give an account but I’ll try (please correct me). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Phone https://together.jolla.com/question/143475/swordfish-os-turing-robotic-industries/ It started out as a fundraiser for a very high-end phone running Sailfish. They actually shipped a few units of the original phone, then they started hyping a next-generation phone with specs that were quite exaggerated, they went overboard with it, and eventually went bankrupt.

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@fph luckily this telephone that I talk about is a German firma similar to Fairphone.

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The information on the website does not impress me so much.
The specs are mid range, but overpriced. The weight advantage of carbon fibre distorted by not comparing to a realistic peer group. The environmental advantages of carbon fibre are unfounded. And there is no indication of availability of alternative OSes.

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I think I could over two days if my XA2 Plus is idle, so you definitely have some diagnostics to do.

(And this is with a second-hand phone.)

@davidrasch when a new small company is trying to get into this shark businesses , is comprehensible that they are expensive.

That what you think

Like I said before , I have been in contact with them , and they really will love to work with diferent solutions than Android.

Again I will saythe eropean telephones available . They are Bq, Fairphone, Volla, Carbon Mobile, and SHIFTPhones.
So why not to focus in european devices instead of asiatics or american?

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Here some of the webs

https://www.shiftphones.com/en/ SHIFT Mobiles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQ_(company) BQ devices

https://volla.online/ Volla

https://www.carbonmobile.com/de/ CarbonMobile

https://www.fairphone.com/en/ Fairphone

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I have read that Vollaphone is the same as a Gigaset phone.

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Gael Duval is testing the Gigaset GS290 (similar to Volla phone), with /e/foundation, a fork of lineage os. He de-googles it and android apps are available with microG.

Volla phone is using Mediatek P23 processor which is even slower than the snapdragon 630 that the orignal XA2 had.

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yes. But does not the point. The point is create something european.

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Nokia has better phones which are supported for longer. HMD is from Finland too :+1:

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Isnt tht Jolla was working with them and they , jolla left the project??

and yes. Whatever company that create their own mobile, and if it is manufactured in Europe, better