I’m guessing this is just a white-label tablet being made by a Chinese OEM, and Volla is just adding their software and branding. This looks nearly identical to the Headwolf HPad6, which is on Aliexpress, and I see it for $199 on Walmart.com with 24gb of RAM. Looks identical, and has the same SOC, just has a different screen resolution. Seems like terrible value too. $733 for a G99 SOC. That’s an outdated mid-range chip that comes in very cheap tablets.

From the articles comments, doesn't sound good.

[–] Sturgist 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's the same trouble all "for Linux" mobile products seem to have. Underpowered, outdated and massively overpriced tech, they never seem to be actually suitable for modern daily driving. I know they're all "niche" products, and it's hard to charge a reasonable price for low manufacturing run stuff. I had a look at the pictures and the HPad6, and if it's not literally the same item (different screen aside) I'll eat my grungy work boot. I get needing to turn a profit, but $733 plus taxes/shipping/etc for something that they're absolutely getting for less than the $200 you'd pay for a single unit off AliExpress, badging inclusive. They'll be ordering in bulk, and getting a healthy discount.

Actually, I was nosing around, and it looks like the HPad6 is probably a rebranded Alldocube iplay 60 pro, which is about £50ish if you buy 100. Don't really want to jump to conclusions and blow things out of proportion...buuuuuut... I've got all these pitchforks and torches...and it'd be a pain to return them....

Edit: I made an error, the Alldocube that's £50ish for 100 is the lower spec one, for same spec as the one in the article it's actually around £80-130 on orders of >1000 units

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems nice but who's going to pay that much for something like that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, considering I could buy my current phone and tablet for that much.