The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.
but this product already exists for around $150 just with a crappier OS.
Qin doesn’t make a flip phone, they don’t use Linux, a worse camera, a shitty DAC, no headphone jack, and they’re all loaded with Google Apps / Spyware.
They aren’t the same product at all.
It had vaporware startup written all over it.
It can’t be “vaporware” when they are actually releasing products for purchase.
XBOX hardware is fine. It’s what they’ve done with it that’s the problem.
At least that one is flip phone so it’s closer but it’s still not running Linux, has a worse camera, no earphone jack, no FM radio, half the RAM, far less storage, worse CPU and so on.
Is all of that worth
$350$250? Depends on your use case I suppose but it’s absolutely not the same product.