Also take into account the Android people already have the chance to buy the Moto Z mod or a Droid 4.
A new Android device will vanish within the masses, people do not trust a new brand as much as established ones.
I personally would not buy it.

I want to trust my daily OS, don't want to be forced to Googles services, want to use the command line and maybe even to use X11-Forwarding to administer our companys pcs and severs from abroad. I want to be able to compile Linux software, maybe even start an x86 virtual machine.

In case the phone ships only with Android,
I will wait till other options seem to be reliable.
If it ships with Sailfish or Maemo/Meego/Debian+Phone stuff...
I will probably buy it right away.


I agree with wicket on the importance of the SoC.
But I do not have enough knowledge of the area to give an informed opinion.

However i vote against Intel, even though they are well supported by Linux in general and I could effortlessly run a VM on them or use my favorite programming language (no ARM compiler), they just use to much power. And the main purpose of a phone should be mobility. Bad battery runtime means bad mobility.