I mean good for them, but at that price and them specs that’s an insanely expensive thing.

seeing as how it’s directed at enthusiasts i.e. people who’ll fiddle with their phone, I contend that those people are equally likely to pick up an used ex-flagship of some years, flash lineageOS and have at least an equal device at like a tenth of the price.

the repairability - cool, it’s better if it’s there than not. but, I stress for the intended audience, swapping out batteries and cameras and stuff is perfectly achievable on normal phones. and even if it isn’t, $50 gets me an immensely powerful SDM8xx device, so dicking around with replacing parts at that price point is more of a hobby than necessity.

this thing with those specs should cost like $200. engineering efforts should be spent at identifying soon-to-be abandoned models from existing manufacturers and taking over production, not on designing bespoke parts and fucking lanyard covers and whatnot.

I’m concerned that with Google doing all their shit trying to close off the ability to install software on the device you own, that this won’t be a good device for long. Not because of their own fault, but because of Google’s. I’m seriously starting to look more into Linux phones for this reason.

I wish it was available in more parts of the world. I don’t mind the mid range specs (they are decent enough for my use case). The long update cycle plus presence of microSD slot is a good thing. Does it have, by an chance, the good old 3.5 mm Jack as well?

Been using it for a few months and it’s been pretty good.

Been looking forward to this one. Might finally be time to switch over. I wish there was a Graphene build for it.

Do we have a release date yet for the US?