I opted for the global variant as well...
and you are completely right peter...
I would go as far as to say that if production isn't due until 202X...
they may as well include a "landline option" considering how archaic the device will be by then.

Me ...
I won't put one more cent on the project.
Not a penny.
putting half down (back then..) equating to a mortgage payment...
and expecting to fork out (most likely) even more than that ...again...
if one does not wish to flush their investment away and wants (by THAT unknown date) a finished (and most definitely) obsolete device ..
Is a freakin' piss poor choice.

It is right up there in choices with...
cutting one's arm off to save the hand.