Looking for a European Tablet

So far I found Archos a french company which seems to be more on the budget side and Volla a German company with one higher end tablet.

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Limerance@piefed.social · 13 pts · 210d (3 replies)

The Volla Tablet looks pretty cool. 12 GB RAM and dual boot of a degoogled Android and Ubuntu Touch. 700 for the tablet plus 150 for a folding keyboard, plus 50 for the pen.

Sadly the pen doesn’t work with Ubuntu Touch. Otherwise this might be a nice machine for painting with Krita. 

The display cleaner is cute and lovely. I might just get that and use it with my other machines  

Gamechanger@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 210d (2 replies)

At the moment, this would be the frontrunner. But, it has been on the market for ~a year and they only guarantee "at least 5 years" of software updates. So for the price and with sustainability in mind this seems a very short time. I have to contact them for more information...

meldrik@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 210d (1 reply)

It is at least 5 years and there might be a custom rom for it, at some point.

Gamechanger@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 210d

You can already use Ubuntu touch if the Volla OS is no longer serviced. I am critical on a very high level, but I really hate e-waste through software obsolescence.

JamieDub86@piefed.social · 10 pts · 210d (2 replies)

I wish Fairphone would do one. And a watch.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 210d

I wish Fairphone made a Pebble watch

KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 210d

What I'd like to see, in part to speed up the development time, and also because collaboration is nice, is for FairPhone to make a "fair" version of the PineTab (V2 of course) and PineTime.

Gamechanger@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 210d

Special entry for murena, they are not producing anything but they sell degoogeled stuff from european companys (Fairphone, Shiftphone and Volla). Although, this does not make a whole lot of sense for Volla because they already have two google free operating systems (one based on android).

XTL@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 208d (2 replies)

Does Volla really have no mention anywhere of how long there will be upgrades?

Gamechanger@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 208d (1 reply)

"At least 5 years"

XTL@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 208d

Ah, now I see it. Thank you.

Not great, not terrible. The dual booting is an interesting feature, but comes at quite a price.

birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 210d

Perhaps reMarkable? It's a Norwegian company.

Alternatively; StarLite, from StarLabs, a UK company.

harcesz@szmer.info · 3 pts · 210d (2 replies)

Theres Pine64 which seems to be headquatered in Poland.

PonyOfWar@pawb.social · 12 pts · 210d (1 reply)

It's not, Pine64EU is just a European store for Pine64 products. The Pine64 organization making the actual tablets is based in Hong Kong.

harcesz@szmer.info · 3 pts · 210d

Damn, that's right. Theres a notable figure of Pine in Poland and I somehow ended up with the impression he's running the show...

Taalnazi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 210d (2 replies)

Nokia has some!

Gamechanger@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 210d

I haven't found any recent one. They had them until 2021 if I am not mistaken...

Fedditor385@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 208d

Nokia / HMD tablets are trash. Like literally trash. I had the T20 and T21 as my company needed a ton for the workers in the field. We moved away from them ASAP. They are extremely slow and full of bugs. Avoid at all costs.

Fedditor385@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 208d (1 reply)

Just to ask, is it important to be European, or is it enough to be non-american?

I mean... Samsung is a South Korean company and has great tablets. Software will be American whatever device you buy.

Gamechanger@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 208d

Everywhere where human rights are upheld and democracy is valued is fine. But, I think Europe should have those industries. So, I try to buy european.