Posting about Volla in a GrapheneOS thread is... I guess courageous?
They are kind of the opposite of GrapheneOS. Ancient kernel trees, ancient firmware bundles, etc. And since downstreams like /e/OS just take their kernels/firmware, they are ancient as well. Using Volla phones opens you up to a lot of known vulnerabilities.
Besides that, Volla is basically a marketing company (with some external contractors) that does Eurowashing. E.g. one of their phones (Quintus) is a phone designed by an Emirates company, produced by a Chinese ODM, marked up by 500 Euro by Volla (they probably turn some screws and flash the firmware to be able to call it 'from Germany'. You can get the same 719 Euro phone here for ~160 Euro:
https://www.amazon.ae/Android-Smartphone-Storage-Octa-Core-M...
I don't understand why people do free promotion for Volla, given that they are mostly snake oil salesmen.
Wow, good to know. Sounds like the kind of company that Worse On Purpose would love! The shenanigans people go through to make money…
For the curious: https://marbit.substack.com/p/worse-on-purpose