[pmontra]

Well yes but maybe it's not so expensive if I think about it as a small desktop (and with a touch screen!) that can fit in a pocket and can be carried over between places where I have everything I need to use it. Maybe it's not even so big anymore ("160.8 x 76.6 x 11.1 mm") and so heavy ("Approx. 215 g"). Those data are from the very bottom of https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/

If I think about it as a phone it's heavy like a stone (hopefully everybody agrees), too large (probably I'm almost alone on this one) and too expensive.

[_aavaa_]

But you should think of it as a smartphone rather than a small desktop/laptop. That's what it's billing itself as.

[pmontra]

As a smartphone I'd also have to carry with me an Android one. As they write in their page "If you depend on proprietary mainstream mobile messenger applications, banking applications, use loyalty or travel apps, consume DRM media, or play mobile video games on your fruit or Android smartphone, then the PinePhone Pro is likely not for you."

Furthermore I'm definitely not buying a phone that heavy.