[horsawlarway]

Mine is out for delivery today - I share your sentiments.

I don't expect it to be a great phone. I do think it's fairly incredibly that it exists at all, and I want to support both the manufacturers putting it out, as well as pick up some slack and add some of my spare time as development hours towards making the experience better.

This is one of the very, very few mobile devices on the market right now that places the user in the driver's seat, instead of treating them merely like a wallet to suck money from in any way possible.

[jraph]

There are a few things that are already better than on an Android or iOS phone that you could appreciate as a developer / advanced user:

- No heavy SDK. Just use whatever you want to build software for it, it's not complicated.

- on $distro, you access any package provided by $distro. And when $distro is Mobian, you have everything Debian has.

- You can script anything with a regular shell script.

- There's Avahi, so you can discover things on your network and your computers can access services running on the phone.

- You can display the SMS app on your computer screen through ssh -Y, and this is amazing.

- Since the sound is managed by PulseAudio, you can use its networking features. Play sound from your phone on your computer or vice versa.

The dock is pretty cool too, and allows running things like on a regular computer, though the phone is a bit slow.