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Volla Phone Plinius is a rugged phone that ships with Ubuntu Touch or Google-free Android and mid-range specs
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Rekall IncorporatedVolla Phone Plinius is a rugged phone that ships with Ubuntu Touch or Google-free Android and mid-range specs
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Cool, but not having a mainline kernel and relying on Halium will mean that security issues will eventually crop up and will not be patched once the LTS kernel is no longer supported.
It doesn’t support some 5G bands used in the US. It will probably have no service in a lot of areas.
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That shit is gonna shatter no matter which way it lands when you drop it the first time.
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The manufacturer’s website is hard to use. (Keeps switching between English and German)
Looks like a cool phone we need more Linux phones.
Usa here… Didn’t have issues with the website.
We need non Google non apple phones.
Would love to see some with top tier cameras.
Plastic. What we want is plastic. It’s lighter and more durable, and isn’t slippery as hell
Edit: But still glad to see another non-Google-OS phone on the market. Hope they do really well.
Yea I do not understand why so many phones have a glass back. 99% of us put them in a case and the glass is usually shattered after a few years of use. It’s useless and is just more shit to break. Metal or plastic…also the curved edge screens…such a pointless design.
I thought those materials were used because of wireless charging and because they make the phone body double as an antenna.
I don’t think many people use wireless charging compared to just wired. Most people don’t want to spend the extra money on it. Plus it’s slower. Hell I’ve had one phone I tried to force myself to use wireless charging with…and in the end gave up after a few months. Just wasn’t worth it.
i use it ona stand on my deak becase i can interact with it as it sits at about 45° facing me.
Yea I think there are people who do like it, I’m just saying I think the general phone population doesn’t care for it. Do remember the amount of annoyed people, when companies stopped putting in charging bricks.
I was excited to use a magnetic car mount with wireless charging, then discovered that every bump in the road jiggles the contacts and produces error messages on my phone
I do the same.
there are many phones with plastic backs that support wireless charging.. is glass back more effective?
it’s probably harder to have good connectivity with metal housing + glass back, even apple suffered with death grips on the iphone 4 after switching from the 3g/s’s plastic body
Who is we? I rock an all glass phone with no case and it’s in perfect condition. If you damage your phone you are a child and should be watched over as such
Putting rugged in the headline when there is basically no explanation of why that term applies to this phone and it just looks like a normal phone is very stupid.