[Retr0id]

What makes it not-phone-capable? The non-s variant powers the "open source laptop" that was on the front page a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42797260

[throwaway74354]

Power profile. The SoC will need more space for battery and cooling that's physically possible in the smartphone formfactor.

[Retr0id]

At full speed sure, but if they use the metal chassis as a heatsink and downclock it a bit it ought to be fine, right? There are rk3588 SBCs sold without any heatsink at all (and I'm sure that does result in throttling, but presumably it's manageable)

[lytedev]

Not sure but gonna guess power.