Volla Phone Plinius is a rugged phone that ships with Ubuntu Touch or Google-free Android and mid-range specs

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      5 days ago

      I don’t think many people use wireless charging compared to just wired. Most people don’t want to spend the extra money on it. Plus it’s slower. Hell I’ve had one phone I tried to force myself to use wireless charging with…and in the end gave up after a few months. Just wasn’t worth it.

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        5 days ago

        i use it ona stand on my deak becase i can interact with it as it sits at about 45° facing me.

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          Yea I think there are people who do like it, I’m just saying I think the general phone population doesn’t care for it. Do remember the amount of annoyed people, when companies stopped putting in charging bricks.

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            3 days ago

            I was excited to use a magnetic car mount with wireless charging, then discovered that every bump in the road jiggles the contacts and produces error messages on my phone

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              3 days ago

              O damn really? That seems like a terrible design. I saw that the magsafe stuff for my s24 ultra messes up the stylus and was like fuck that. So never touched it.

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      5 days ago

      there are many phones with plastic backs that support wireless charging… is glass back more effective?

      it’s probably harder to have good connectivity with metal housing + glass back, even apple suffered with death grips on the iphone 4 after switching from the 3g/s’s plastic body