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- purchased a Volla Phone 22 which comes with Volla OS - a Google free version of Android for £495 (with a couple of extras + import tax).
The retail price in Europe is €452
You can choose between Volla OS or Ubuntu Touch at time of purchase, and there are two different colours - black and white.
Having spent quite a few years with Android phones, I found the initial setup to be rather difficult and time consuming. There is no easy method to import Contacts, Messages, Browser Settings, and Photos from Android / iPhones.
An issue with contacts app not sharing to phone and messaging apps has made the phone almost unusable for me.
At this point I’m going back to my ageing Pixel phone.
Website: volla.online/
Specs:
6.3 inch display at 2340 x 1080
Media Tek Helio G85 8 Core CPU with Mali G52 GPU.
4GB RAM
128GB Internal Memory
Dual SIM
Replaceable Battery
Removable Back Cover
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0:47 "You're losing out a lot of convenience"
I guess it highly depends on your phone usage.
There's another comment where someone mentioned that the best deal is to do everything you need on a computer instead of a phone, and I mostly agree with it as I barely use my "smartphone"; a computer is so much more comfortable to use.
When I moved away from a more classical Android, into UT with Waydroid, I felt like I got the best out of the 2 worlds: 2 up-to-date operating systems (UT and LineageOS), freed from endless privacy settings, and a nice user experience (your mileage may vary).
Now my phone is working great and I can do everything I want with it: texting, calling, mandatory banking 2FA. And in the off chance that I'm stuck in commuting where I can't set down and use my laptop, I can still draw out the phone and quickly browse Firefox.
However, if what you want is to install loads of applications and using it intensively, then yeah, this is most likely not for you.
For what it's worth, my previous phone was a Redmi Note 4, which had approximately the same size and same battery size.
Speaking of which, battery wise, on UT, I seem to get as much battery usage as the Redmi, when I don't have Waydroid running (basically an entire week or even dozen of days worth of battery, since I have zero app running in the background, no wifi, no bluetooth, no GPS; just plain phone data).
Great to see you uploading again! Your videos helped me get interested in Unix systems as a teenager and laid the groundwork for my current career.
Welcome back and thanks for the video.
There's no way on Earth that I would spend that kind of money on any phone, I believe the best "philosophy" for privacy is to take control of your computing properly, make "the dumbest phones that you can" and just do your proper "adult" computing on PCs and laptops running Linux.
All my phones are de-Googled and are simply used for calls, texts, emails and some media consumption of stuff that is actually stored on the phone or sometimes streamed from my home server - no banking, no social media, no third party closed source apps.
I have a Pixel 4a, Moto G7, Moto G4 and Moto E, the last two of which are burner phones that I "found" in "piles of junk" that I purchased on eBay - the most expensive phone was probably the G7 which cost me £150 on eBay about a year ago.
As a result, my phones stay quiet most of the time and are not constantly demanding my attention. If I am out somewhere, I carry a small Thinkpad X220 with me running Gentoo Linux and if I need to go do some computing, I grab a coffee and sit down in a civilised manner with my laptop - occasionally looking out the window and laughing at all the "phone zombies" outside making a complete nuisance of themselves peering down at their tiny screens.
I do my computing when I want to, not when the device tells me to.
Welcome back and thank you for sharing. That's definitely not plug n play.
Thanks for the review, pal. Will pass on this
Got a Pixel 6 and installed Graphene ROM on it to de-google.
Out of curiosity, wasn't there a way to not use the springboard from VollaOS and switch to a more traditional Android view? That might fix your issue about not being able to share your notes.
There was another video where someone showed some kind of home view when long pressing the home button, which looked a lot like the more traditional app view on Android, although they didn't mention if it was by default or if it was a custom home view they installed.
It just came to me that there is one feature you did not mention (or at least I don't remember hearing you mentioning it; I'm going to rewatch the video just in case): the Volla OS has a multi-boot feature.
Basically, if you feel like the Volla OS itself is not to your liking but the hardware itself looks nice, you could get -a basic LineageOS and even include Google Services- another operating system if you wanted to.
Tanks for the info. I was on the fence about getting a Volla, but this is a very useful "feature".
@@TheLegendaryLore Granted, it's a niche feature. Personally, I like it because I like Ubuntu Touch as a second operating system, but definitely not something that would matter if what you want is a "pocket computer.
@@replacesoundboardExactly. I'd love to use only GNU/Linux on my phone - but I'm not yet sure if it would work with my requirements, so it'll be nice to also be able to boot to Android.
@@TheLegendaryLore Word of caution though: for UT, it's an ARM64 Linux, and you could also install Waydroid (an emulated Android with less functionality), so it might be missing a lot of features.
I was daily driving it since November but decided to switch over to Volla OS (although Volla 12.1 doesn't have functional mutli-boot yet, but soon).
Some of the Linux apps were mighty useful, such as the one that allowed me to use my phone as a bootable driver to install a new OS on a laptop.
Hey. Only a few days ago I looked up when you last uploaded after telling my girlfriend about your channel. Fun timing
Haha good timing indeed
I detect buyers regret. I will be honest it looks like garbage.
I would give him credit for at least buying it and reviewing - if only so the rest of us don't have to!
Maybe I do regret my purchase a bit. Oh well live and learn...
@@quidsup I feel you, I too have been there. It stings. I have learnt in my life to call it garbage when it is though. I cannot see that phone ever being anything more than a time sink of frustration.
It's definitely not made for everyone. Personally, I'm very glad of mine with UT + Waydroid and daily driving it.
Another option for Pixel phone users is installing Graphene OS to completely degoogle a Pixel phone.
Just get a Pixel 4a or Pixel 5, they both have the finger print reader on the back. I love my 4a and won't purchase anything new until I can get something the same size, don't like large phones. Good video, thanks.
So if you want a de-googled experience your advice is to get a Pixel.
@@orielsy My comment had two parts to it, first part is to do with ( finger print reader ) that was brought up, the second part is my own input and feelings about phone size. I said nothing about Google or de-googled phones. Quidsup brought up his own pixel 3, therein my comment about a Pixel phone. Next time you jump, look and listen first, there might be a canyon or train.
Im suprised to see Gigaset, it's a common cheapo chinese landphone company here in Serbia
gigaset is out of germany and i think they want to do nice smartphones now. they used to be cheapo phones over here for a long time as well. typical phones for kids and the elderly. these vollas are like their attempt at actually nice phones i guess.
Any Android phone can be degoogled, so just buy the best you can and degoogle it. Not simple but simpler than an incomplete phone.
Can you do a review on Astra Linux please
No "Welcome back, thank you for this video" first? Straight in with demanding the next thing that you want from him? How self-entitled are you?
@@terrydaktyllus1320 He as self entitled as you thinking that anyone owes your boy anything, he didn't apologise for his absence. @Andrew should not have to bow down to your buttboy and but your manlove for Ivan is touching...for you anyway!
@@andrewstewartjacobs9678 Who appointed you his spokesperson? Can he not speak for himself?
I wasn't talking to you, sonny, keep your nose out - up there is the spare bedroom of your parents' house on your mum's computer.
Run along now, boy, mind how you go and stay away from sharp scissors.
Discussion closed, you are dismissed.
@@andrewstewartjacobs9678 PS. Silly little boy using his real name on YT in a security and privacy channel too!
You self-entitled millennials never learn anything, do you?
you should have buyed motorolo edge 20 way better price, then install custom rom
Since you give up uploading videos, I have quited using linux. Please keep posting videos so i can sell mac book and make peace with penguen 😅
So it's his fault that you admit that you made a mistake buying Apple?
Have you tested /e/ from eFoundation?
Welcome back, Quidsup! :)
Can you check the PinePhone too please? -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone
I just checked with my own Volla OS. If you open Settings > Apps > Default Apps, then you can choose between "Volla" or "Trebuchet".
"Trebuchet" is the default Android home page. So basically it will be like having a standard degoogled Android/LineageOS
good to see you again! great vid!
Glad you’re back! 6:17 I believe that’s just an Android issue. Back when I used to use Android I had this problem every time I switched phones. There would be a discrepancy between the contacts in the contacts app and the contacts in the phone app due to the set of contacts imported to the phone being stored separately from the contacts synced from my Google account. And of course I could never remember how I solved the problem each time.
Perhaps this issue you have is related to that, i.e. the contacts transferred to the phone went to the contacts app but the phone app is looking for contacts in a nonexistent Google account. Take a look through the phone app settings and see if there’s anything related to contacts in there.
That sounds exactly like the issue I had, I'll take another look. Thanks
Missed you for so long, happy to see you back
Pointless.
Do you also have a fairphone 4? If not why did you choose Volla vs fariphone?
Glad to see a video upload from you. Have been watching your videos for well over a decade! This is my first ever comment to your video. Just wanted to thank you for all the linux tutorials. I pretty much used the distros you used. Shout out to SolydK! :)
missed you mate!
Hi there quids!
is there a download mode or recovery mode for this phone? I'd rather repalace the OS with LineageOS instead. i just need 'hardware' and i'll decide what software i need myself.
In this case, you should buy the Gigaset phone this is based on directly, because it's less expensive. People mentioned being able to purchase it and install VollaOS themselves.
The only advantage to buying from Volla is having the company installing VollaOS or UT for us. That, and having Volla logo on the device, along with official support in case of OS bugs.
Otherwise, you could buy with VollaOS and use multiboot.
Personally, I bought it with UT and installed Waydroid to use LineageOS through it.
Bloody Hell !!! Mate