No removable battery & no headphone jack? That's a helluva downgrade IMHO. I was just saving up for the original, too. That's gonna be a no buy from me. I'll keep an eye out in case they wise up in the future, but this is a no-go.

Wow now I'm sad I missed the first one, looked great

Also, this is not a pure Linux phone. They decided to go with halium android bootloader/drivers and then put the Linux as the DE. i guess this path is ok for unofficial Linux implementations on existing android phones, but if a phone is marketed as Linux I'd hope it to really be full Linux.