Check out the Jolla-Devices STORE.
Our beta shop. It's a sort of archive where to buy Sailfish OS-ready devices.
After some early contact with Dr. Jörg, I received two prototypes and I used them for 5 days as daily drivers.
The result is a long video review of two prototypes received from Volla, one with default AOSP os (black one in video), the other with a porting of Sailfish OS (white one). The Volla phone is the name of a project for a simple, privacy focused, (and European) smartphone.
Here is showed also the Volla experience, but the overall focus of video remains on the device, treated as if was already launched Sailfish OS device.
The phone it’s better than expectation, being a solid midrange 8-core smartphone with some nice “flagship feeling” in the hand: weight, display size and battery are at high levels.
This is a Gigaset smartphone, assembled in Germany, and the Sailfish OS version ends up to be almost a full european smartphone. It’s a working fully-EU phone, in early 2020!
My overall feeling is that the Volla phone it’s positioned between an XA2 and an XA2 Plus, with an higher screen/body ratio. The rounded design is a novelty for Sailfish OS, even if will need little tweak to fit better.
Volla has just launched a new, 2020 funding campaign: “Volla Phone: Freedom through simplicity and security”
See: https://www.kickstarter.com
Good reading
#Techtember is already over and it’s time for an update: the J-D Store has been prepared for the winter season, with the arrival of 2 new high-end alternative phones, the Volla Phone 22 and the Google Pixel 6a. Here they…
Read all
Weeks have passed and this strange 2022 is also halfway through: the two critical issues are still an increasingly “galloping inflation”, and the question of the war in Ukraine. The two problems chase each other and feed themselves, inflation and…
Read all
A new Sailfish OS release is out: so named because it’s dedicated to a city in the southwest of Finland: Vanha Rauma, which “is a living monument to the enchanting style of old Nordic wooden construction (…) a beautiful examples of…
Read all
The events: Putin invades Ukraine Let’s start with the breaking news: the Russian army started an offensive in Ukrainian territory, therefore not only in the disputed territories of Donbass and Crimea. Within days the offensive from Belarus reached Kiev, putting…
Read all
Our beta shop. It's a sort of archive where to buy Sailfish OS-ready devices.