Isn’t Nothing practically a Chinese brand with just the marketing department working in the UK?

Thanks to this post I bought Nothing Phone 3. Awesome. Thanks!

I’ll pick Jolla. I hope their new phone will be good.

The Volla Quintus appears to be almost identical, to the Daria Bond that is sold in the UAE. Specs look identical from what I could see and the only difference I can make out are very minor design changes in the back side shell. Volla’s marketing and statements are pretty misleading about that. I am not saying they should not work with Chinese OEMs but they create the impression there was meaningful customisation going on from their side, maybe there was but it looks very much off the shelf from an OEM model.

At the same time Volla also sells Plinius. It is actually a stronger phone, for a lower price than the Quintus but looks very much like the strongest Gigaset phone (which is lower mid-range), so should be actually manufactured in Germany (as much as any phone in Europe could possibly be I think). It is bewildering that they don’t put the Gigaset model square and centre.

to add another (german) brand: https://www.shift.eco/

I had the shiftphone6 back in 2018 and I believe it had an alternative OS installed, in any case I can’t remember the google play store pre-installed (correct me if I’m wrong).

They are all so fucking huge! Can’t anyone make a good <= 6" Phone anymore?

Fairphone has an atrocious update policy. They do not care for security.

Buy whatever and flash grapheneOS on it.