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🎄🎁 Christmas Giveaway: Tuta is giving away a 🇩🇪 German-made Volla Phone by @volla

The Quintus, worth €719, is a Google-free smartphone built for freedom, simplicity & security. 🔒

✨ VollaOS (with multi-boot option) or Ubuntu Touch
📱 6.7” AMOLED display
📸 50 MP triple camera
💾 8 GB RAM | 256 GB storage
🚀 Powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 8-core processor

⚡ For a chance to win, just comment what is most important for you on a #deGoogle phone? ⚡

#Privacy #DigitalFreedom #Giveaway #VollaPhone

Christmas Giveaway: Win a Volla Phone! with image of the phone.
#privacy #degoogle #VollaPhone #giveaway #digitalfreedom @Volla

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Zahox

Hey Tuta. I'm really disappointed as a legendary user because you recommend LineageOS, CalxyOS and /e/OS and now do a collaboration with volla, which allowed attacks from their community on GrapheneOS in their own volla Forum. And the sad part is that you recommend those ROM or make a giveaway and call it "secure" - None of them is secure and even against your mission for privacy. I'm concerned to use Tuta because of your wrong perspectives about security. I will leave Tuta.
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Martina Neumayer

Well, it certainly doesn't include the exorbitant price of the device, just because "privacy is paramount." Seriously! Someone there really went totally crazy with those prices! What's so expensive about the phone that it's so jaw-droppingly expensive overall? The Swarovski-encrusted, gold-plated casing? These phones are not so wonderful that they should charge customers such prices for them. Dear creators, come down to earth. Otherwise, a dog with a lame leg won't buy this.🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

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matidmgdef

For me the most important on a google phone is to have an access to application which allows me to stay financialy connected to the world, so I mean 3 things

1) BankApp (Pekao)
2) NFC payments
3) Stock APP (XTB)

If I will have those, I don't care about anything else. My phone is my connection to my finances. I would love also a cooperation with a cybersecurity company so I can pay them to protect my phone better as I do for my iPhone

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Winston Smith

Being frank, for me this is more a global issue rather than a personal security concern. What a #deGoogle device brings is a choice to stop feeding even more the unstoppable oligopoly that reigns the world supremme without any other opossition that the equaly obnoxious Chinese statal conglomerate. We need to stop feeding the monster. More players, from all over the world must come in. We need to bring competition back to the ever more crucial technological sector.
#degoogle
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Alejandro C.

Security. It's a daily driver, I need it to be virtually and physically secure against common threats.

Usability & reliability. If I need to make a call or send a text, use a map, or access my 2FA codes, it should work fine and correctly.

Repairability. If something breaks or stops working by any means, it would be an incredebly sweet comfort to know that I can just order a new piece and fix it my self:)

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panu

I would say "google-free" but as it's already pretty explicit in this case, I'm going for repairability.

See, with Android phones your phone turns into a paperweight as soon as it stops receiving Android updates anyway, but otoh if you have an open source OS which you can expect* to be supported way longer, repairability becomes essential.

*for example, linux dropped 486 support some 20 years after the last 486 was manufactured
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nictakiego

I guess there are many aspects that are important on degoogled phone. First, the most important is independence from Google Play Services. Android became so dependent from this spyware, that so many apps don't work without it, even manufacturer's apps. That should not happen on a freedom OS (which android is announced as). So in my opinion, truly degoogled phone should also have open-source independent OS. I imagine the real privacy phone as another Linux distribution, with desktop environment made specifically for phones (like plasma mobile for example). This should be similiar to android graphically but differ under the hood, access to root should never be blocked, its the symbol of ownership, that we can remove whatever we want and install whatever works. I appreciate work of foss devs and companies in promoting @fdroidorg and improving transparency of their products on this bloated spyware android OS, but this OS is heading the wrong direction for many years already, and it just keeps getting more and more closed. All the android foss is on a sinking boat, and it has to be said, time to move on, android was a base for many amazing projects, apps, and therefore the new OS should be able to run them all, so be compatible with android packages. Its important to note, that because of amazing devs which are choosing to donate their work into fdroid, this switch will be much easier. Damn its kinda long complain, but summing up, I think the most important is the new OS for truly degoogled phone. Its unreachable to degoogle, while using Google OS, even though projects like GrapheneOS or LineageOS are doing amazing work, Google still makes money on that, and can kill it anytime they want. GrapheneOS just runs on Google phones only and is based on Android. Its like trying to deApple Macbook. So without new OS we will never truly degoogle.
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Angelo Schirinzi

What matters most? That my phone is truly MINE. Not a surveillance terminal disguised as a smart assistant. I want to open an app without wondering 'who else is watching?', search without feeding endless ad profiles, use a device that works FOR me, not ON me. Digital freedom can't be a luxury in 2026 – it's a right. And it starts with truly controlling your own tools.
BTW I use Tuta 😉
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August Reign

Control and privacy.

I don't want someone else deciding what apps are installed on my phone, or what I can or can't uninstall. I want to be able to install what I want, without being corralled into a gatekept environment or something that steals everything I write or tracks what I look up and uses it to promote other things.

A nice camera is also good. Memories that aren't fuzzy when looking back at them is preferable.

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kiwiWolle

Integrity.
I so much enjoyed the times when the latest gadgets would simply introduce new features and services that would actually enhance people’s lives. They weren’t designed to spy on you, to undermine your privacy, to influence your thinking and doing. I want full control of what I share and with whom if anything at all. No other entity should ever make that decision for me, let alone secretly in my name.
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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

❝ what is most important for you on a #deGoogle phone? ❞

ROOT.

i need to know no FAANG apps are hiding in root as “system” software.

here in USA, Samsung & LG been in cahoots with FAANG, Qualcomm and telcos, partitioning root to hide their stalkware. they openly conspire to make it impossible to root USA & Canada phones running Snapdragon & Knox.

a properly degoogled phone works as the computer it is. i should be able to reformat with any AOS.

so give me root access.

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#degoogle @Tuta @Volla
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Tourneslash

Apart from the obvious, avoiding monopoly, people privacy and keeping the internet an open place, I think what's the most important on a de-googled phone is to be able to maintain the level of security we deserve. We shouldn't have to give-up hardware security and regular security update to avoid google services. Google made sure we were dependent enough to make it hard. So big thanks for every alternative company for providing alternative safe solutions !
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frutiger

Control and knowledge about what apps are doing, for me.
I would like to have an extensive list of customizable permissions (which actually work!), and some kind of way to know which apps are phoning home with which data, and the ability to filter out traffic if it's unwanted. Essentially control for those who know what they want from a phone ig (not that I'm an expert) 😁
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eelllee

( not in priority / any particular order )
1. Hardware camera and mic disable switch.
2. Tactile camera on / off switch.
2. Removable battery.
3. Assembled sans slave labour, in a democratic open country.
4. Extensive .apk support ( including old versions ).
5. Fully customizable keyboard. ( as on screenshot )
6. Firewall, vpn and app internet access control.
7. Fine control over all app permissions ( including system processes ).
Screenshot of a soft keyboard with alphabetical order, extra keys and diacritics.
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