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Great phone for simple calling, texting, basic email. I’ll get one to play with it.

However a few comments as a mobile games developer:

Better not be one of those rebranded made-in-China phones, as most are.

No specs released, but I’m guessing similar to the Linux phone that’s being released, with 5 to 8 year old technology. i.e. 720×1440 display. Most common devkits no longer support anything less than 1080x1920 (HD)

So no basically no apps.

not even simple calendar or calculator apps, at least in the case of the $800 Linux phone competitor (Librem) and no developers willing to write apps for it (no chromium support)

Games pushes sales, and Unity3D and Unreal (both are about 99% of the market) can’t and won’t publish to the phone. Not even Xamarin, GADOT, Cocos2D/3D supports it or any commonly other UI toolkit/framework have support for it.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/webgl-browsercompatibility.html (no mobile support, basically)

https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-US/SharingAndReleasing/HTML5/index.html (i.e. deprecated and no longer supported)

Not pissing on the phone, but as a mobile developer, I see huge issues.

If we were communist China and Huawei, we can enlist thousands of developers, as they did when they were forced to develop their own app ecology and marketplace.