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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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[โ€“] Limerance@piefed.social 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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 doesnโ€™t work with Ubuntu Touch. Otherwise this might be a nice machine for painting with Krita.ย 

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

[โ€“] Gamechanger@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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...

[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Gamechanger@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 hours ago

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.

[โ€“] Gamechanger@slrpnk.net 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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).

[โ€“] JamieDub86@piefed.social 6 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I wish Fairphone would do one. And a watch.

[โ€“] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 hours ago

I wish Fairphone made a Pebble watch

[โ€“] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 hours ago

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 and PineTime.

[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

Perhaps reMarkable? It's a Norwegian company.

[โ€“] harcesz@szmer.info 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

~~Theres Pine64 which seems to be headquatered in Poland.~~

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] harcesz@szmer.info 2 points 12 hours ago

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...

[โ€“] Taalnazi@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Gamechanger@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago

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