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Delivery status of the Volla Phone Quintus and Volla Tablets
16/10/24 18:04
With 10 new products, including our new flagship model and the first Volla tablet, 2024 is an especially exciting year. We are looking forward to starting shipping the Volla Phone Quintus this month. We will start with the rewards for our Kickstarter crowd funding campaign supporters. All pre-orders will follow in the order in which they were received. We expect to start shipping the tablet in November. Read More…
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July Update
17/07/24 23:10
Final hardware. 512 GB internal memory. Pen and keyboard. It's summer. No reason to take a break, but still the best time of year. We are pleased to be able to report on progress in the development of the tablet. The Volla Tablet made its first public appearance at the Volla Community Days, where we were able to show both a beta version of Volla OS and Ubuntu Touch. Read More…
Mobile FOSS operating system for Europe
02/05/24 21:58
International joint project brings Oniro OS to German smartphone from Volla. The renowned Eclipse Foundation is developing an open-source multi-kernel operating system, Oniro OS. The project is supported by established industry brands such as Huawei, Linaro, Software Mansion, Array, Futurewei, Typefox, NOI Techpark. The system's cutting-edge scalable architecture can be used for all device classes, from IoT, smartwatches and smartphones to tablets and smart TVs. Together with Volla Systeme, the foundation is porting the alternative operating system to the latest and most powerful model, the Volla Phone X23. Read More…
The Volla tablet now on Kickstarter
17/04/24 18:30
The crowd funding campaign for the first Volla tablet was launched on April 17. The response is a great motivation for the Volla team. The Super Early Bird offer was fully booked within the first few hours. Reserve your Volla Tablet now on Kickstarter
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Volla OS 13: More comfort and security
04/04/24 04:47
It's another milestone. This spring sees the release of the new forward-looking version of Volla OS based on Android 13. It is the fifth generation of the Google-free operating system with a focus on simplicity and security.
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March Update
07/03/24 22:05
March news: The Volla Tablet. More space for your freedom. After more than a year of preparation, the time has come: we are excited to present the Volla Tablet for a crowd funding campaign starting in April. Read More…
November Update
09/11/23 23:02
Development and delivery status. It is an eventful fall. At the end of October, we released the first of monthly updates to our Volla OS operating system. At the same time, our elegant flagship model Volla Phone 22 and the robust version Volla Phone X23 are available again in all variants. We are already preparing the next version. With it, voice recognition and Ubuntu Touch for multi-boot will finally be available on the Volla Phone 22. Read More…
The Fast Browser Alternative
21/08/23 17:51
When it comes to fast page loads, the Chrome browser is right in front. But privacy is not the focus of Google's app, which naturally uses Google as the default search and can be connected to a Google account. The Vivaldi browser from Norway promises to combine speed with uncompromising data protection with its own variant of the open-source Chrome Engine. Read More…
August Update
13/08/23 12:50
Updates. AI. Multi Boot. Delivery status. It's a busy Volla summer: with over 850 Volla Phone X23 sold so far, the successor to our rugged and waterproof smartphone Volla Phone X is the most successful model so far. Therefore, we have to re-produce, but will soon be able to deliver again In addition, Volla OS 12 updates for all smartphone models are pending and Ubuntu Touch is approaching the home stretch of stability and completeness of features with the OTA-2 update. Read More…
Ideas, demos and impulses
11/06/23 18:34
The Volla Community Days 2023 on May 20-21 were characterized by a terrific atmosphere, creativity and innovation. Up to 30 users, developers and partners participated on-site and well over 300 via live broadcast and our Telegram chat. Guests from Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and the USA traveled to the event and made the international Volla community visible and tangible. One of the stars of the two days was undoubtedly the new Volla Phone X23, which interested parties could not only try out on site. Some were able to take their rugged smartphone for double security right away from the small first edition. Read More…
April Update
15/04/23 22:53
April news: Major updates, Volla Phone X23 production, Community Days 2023: Both operating systems get an extensive update with the spring. While the fourth generation based on Android 12 is due for Volla OS, the public beta of a fundamentally revised version based on Ubuntu 20.05 is already available for Ubuntu Touch. The Volla Phone X23 is also about to be manufactured in the first batch. Read More…
February Update
15/02/23 23:20
The new Volla Phone X23 for double security. We are excited to make a great announcement today. The rugged and powerful Volla Phone X23, offering users double the security. Available for delivery in May. Pre-order now. Read More…
December Update
06/12/22 18:35
More stability for Ubuntu Touch. new features for Volla OS. Experience Volla at Dodenhof near Bremen: Also in the final spurt of the year the Volla project continues to develop. For all Volla Phone models the new Ubuntu Touch version OTA-24 is ready and a new Volla OS version is planned with new features still in December. Read More…
November Update
01/11/22 18:30
Spftware-Updates, Sailfish OS, security mode templates. After a successful summer with delivery of our elegant and powerful Volla Phone 22, we have started an exciting autumn. Thanks to our users, we are able to consistently develop our ambitious project of a smartphone focused on simplicity and security. Read More…
August Update
08/08/22 23:08
Special sales day on August 13 in Remscheid, Berlin, Stuttgart and Munich. Software update. Ongoing shipments. We are overwhelmed by the demand for the new Volla Phone 22, and we are even more pleased to be able to ship all July shipments this week and already begin August donations and orders. It is our users who make a smartphone for freedom possible through simplicity and security. Due to short supply chains with German partners we can deliver within 1 to 2 weeks. Read More…
In Conversation
29/06/22 16:28
Partners, projects and new ideas. Much motivation and inspiration was received by the participants and team from the 4th Volla Community Days on June 18-19. More than 230 participants watched our livestream with presentations, interviews and discussions. 20 participants took the opportunity to talk to the Volla team on site at our location in Remscheid, to ask questions and exchange ideas. Partners reported about the Volla Phone for confidential patient data or the smartphone for visually impaired people. Read More…
May Update
19/05/22 16:58
Crowd Funding. Volla Phone 22. Volla OS 11: Now it's for sure. Volla Phone 22 will be released in July. With our Crowd Funding campaign on Kickstarter we reached 1000% of our funding goal. We would like to thank all Volla friends who supported us. Pre-orders are now available on Indiegogo and in our online store. At the same time, the major system update Volla OS 11.1 is available for all Volla Phone model. Read More…
April Update
05/04/22 16:17
Spring action. Hello Munich. Volla Phone 22. The spring 2022 brings exciting news! Get the Volla Phone and Volla Phone X not at a special price until April 10 and check out our smartphones at Breuninger Haus in Munich. We are looking forward to the new flagship model Volla Phone 22, for which we will soon start a crowd-funding campaign. Read More…
February Update
28/02/22 15:41
Source code published. New features. Fingerprint under Ubuntu Touch. We started the year 2022 with great anticipation. Because we have a lot planned. Soon we will be able to announce novelties and partnerships. It will be an eventful spring. Read More…
December Update
17/12/21 23:47
Security update. Special promotion. Online Q&A session. 2021 was a great year for Volla. Thanks to your support, impulses and cooperation. Thousands of Volla Phones went to users in over 50 countries around the world, More than 60 developers use our hardware and numerous open source projects have been created for Volla smartphones. With the Volla Phone X, we delivered another model less than a year later than the first Volla Phone. Read More…
September Update
24/09/21 15:40
Updates, new features and partners, event for your questions. A fresh summer is behind us. There is also fresh wind for our Volla products. After we sent our new Volla Phone X to our customers in August, there were new updates, new features and new partners. And already we are preparing the next activities. Read More…
July Update
22/07/21 18:44
It's been less than a year since we started shipping the Volla Phone to backers of our crowd funding campaign. So we're especially excited that pre-sales have begun for the Volla Phone X, which we unveiled at Volla Community Days. In addition, we were able to deliver the big Volla OS 10 update and for Ubuntu Touch there is also another new version with improvements. Read More…
Projects from the Community
13/07/21 15:43
Over 200 users, developers and partners attended Volla Community Days 2021 this year, with 16 talks and demonstrations. Up to 50 simultaneous participants followed our event via live broadcast and discussed on Telegram about further alternative Linux operating systems for the Volla Phone, progress for Android apps under Ubuntu Touch and of course the new Volla Phone X. 2 developers can look forward to our new smartphone for their results in our hackathon, which will be released in August and can be pre-ordered now. Read More…
May Update
16/05/21 17:31
Spring is another time of exciting developments at Volla. Volla Community Days are just around the corner, there is a system update for Ubuntu Touch and the Volla user interface has also been improved. Read More…
March Update
28/03/21 03:20
Also in March there is progress in the Volla project: pre-sale of the slate grey Volla Phones, software updates for Ubuntu Touch and UBports installer, Volla Community Days in May and opening of the Volla Customer Forum. Read More…
February Update
21/02/21 14:40
Spring is almost here and with it exciting developments for Volla products. We inform about our delivery times and the upcoming update of our operating systems. Read More…
Impulses from the Community
25/06/20 11:47
30 participants from Germany and abroad took the opportunity at the Volla Community Days in June to inform themselves about the status of the project and to contribute their ideas, 22 of them online. This means that the event had a total of three times as many participants as last year. This time the focus was on the Volla Phone, its user-friendliness and the protection of privacy. Read More…
Volla Hackathon Results
25/10/19 16:19
Although they were the first Volla Community Days, developers from five countries participated in the Volla Community Days in May 2019. The Hackathon work covered Nemo Mobile, Sailfish OS and Ubuntu Touch and provided valuable insights for the preparation of our Volla phone and future developments. Last but not least, the execution of Android Apps on alternative mobile operating systems was a central topic. Read More…