[caseyavila]

Well I don't think waiting for better hardware take any less time than improving the software that these phones run. In the video, you can see that these phones are still running desktop versions of these applications, so there is a lot of room for improvement and optimizations for these mobile Linux platforms (things like Firefox running at the right size, better GTK and touchscreen support, etc.).

One of the cool things about these phones is that the battery is removable, so I would imagine these phones will last a while and only get better over time, as their operating systems mature.