Volla Phone: the extended review of 2 prototypes on early 2020

This 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.

Hardware
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.

EU phone
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!

Rating it
My overall feeling is that the Volla phone it's placed between an XA2 and an XA2 Plus, with an higher screen/body ratio. The rounded design is a novelty for Sailfish OS, and will need little tweak to fit better. See on

Next steps...
There will be later a second, main crowdfound campaign from Volla, maybe on a different platform, or self hosted.
Stay tuned on their social channels.
If you get bored, use the:
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Timecode links
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0:00 Typical tech intro:
0:17 Specs sheet
0:22 Beginning of extended review
1:08 Design
4:35 the Volla experience (short anticipation)
5:23 the Camera (AOSP) and pictures
8:41 a video recorded
9:24 the Volla experience (longer test)
14:08 Firefox Klar
15:31 Music and loud speakers
16:32 Volla Quick menu
20:03 Volla on Sailfish OS
22:18 Battery and specs
25:28 BT Connectivity: pairing with Nokia Play 360
27:31 pairing with BT earphones (i12 TWS)
27:59 Apps test with Tweetian
28:52 Final thoughts (in practice it's an agile 6 minute summary of the entire video)
33:05 Finishing...
33:55 "It's a prototype, many thing may change" advice

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Links
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The original campaign: "Volla Phone: Freedom through simplicity and security"
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/volla/volla-phone-freedom-through-simplicity-and-security?lang=it

Volla official site:
http://volla.online

Sailfish OS:
https://sailfishos.org
For info and articles about other Jolla-Devices:
https://jolla-devices.com

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