An OLED screen, a mechanical keyboard and a trackball are all cool ideas for hardware but I feel like software will be what makes or breaks this. Without a lot of low level tweaking I could see that 8000 mAh battery draining a lot faster than in an iPhone.
I hope it succeeds though - would love to see a future where viable open source alternatives exist for mobile on par with what we had for desktops and have for laptops.
> I feel like software will be what makes or breaks this
This is pretty much the case. The Linux community attitude seems to be "build the hardware, and the software developers will come" - with pretty underwhelming results (which you can attribute to a lot of things, but I attribute to most developers who get these devices building toy apps instead of libraries, tooling, and documentation).
I hope it succeeds though - would love to see a future where viable open source alternatives exist for mobile on par with what we had for desktops and have for laptops.