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Was partying this week-end, so I completely missed the sepcs release and I'm late to the party, but...

Wow!

The thing that get me sold on the project :
- Sailfish OS now confirmed to at least be attempted
(Yay! I love full-blown GNU/Linux on smartphone! Was so sad when Palm/HP WebOS disappeared from market. Happy that there are still SFOS devices considered)
- Keyboard (well basically that was the whole point of the project. I loved it on my Palm/HP Pre-s, I'm happy to have it again on a SFOS deviced)
- Unlocked bootload - because if I buy it it's my device! I get to decide what I run ! So happy!


Then, the SoC : well seems that it's a popular one, so hopes for more maintenance/hacks down the line. (And its still a *mid*-range 6xx. Unlike Fairphone who are considering switching to *low* range 4xx for their potential future FP3). Also given the much lower power requirement of SFOS, it's still fine by me.

Big screen : **** I'll need to find/buy an even bigger holster for that phone :-D
But otherwise : nice! (I have huge hands so no big deal by me).

Big battery : Yeah ! Finally someone who does use "smaller component" as an excuse for "even thinner phone (you can cut cheese with it)" but instead for "more room for bigger battery".
Two more question :
- will it be behind a easy user replaceable back cover ? Or will it be an internal battery as you mentioned in the tablet thread ?
- if it's an internal, will there by a ribbon connector or something like this to make it at least replaceable by a motivated enough owner of some torx screwdriver ? or will it be only solder/desolder madness ?
- chances of having pogo-pins so we could add after market wireless chargers ?
(I still have from very efficient Palm/HP TouchStone circuitry at home)

Dual camera : plenty of interesting opportunity to play around with openCV and stereo depth, etc. - Yay !

Love the big space (RAM / Flash) and the bazillon of connections networks/etc.

Speaking of connection, like I asked in the the other thread :
- out of curiosity, how did you manage to connect the keyboard to the main PCB?

Again big thanks for you effort.
(Looks like this is going to be the 2nd device I'll be buying from you)
 

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