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5-10h battery life. Their goal list includes 20h idle time and recording video. It seems to be using some nonstandard SIM and only has GNSS, not GPS. Which is probably fine functionally but apparently they weren't able to source a GPS chip to use the US system that met whatever their standards are? Large list of negatives for something the price of a shiny new foldable, or several non-foldable smartphones.
They also seem to be doing the usual dance of "Made in USA!!!!*"
* what you think of when you think "electronic components" sourced from Asian countries, mostly we're talking about assembly and that this is where it's put in the consumer packaging.
By "nonstandard SIM" do you mean one of two common SIM sizes that are not "nano", which is preferred by current phones?
GNSS means it's global. Which includes US GPS, as well as Europe's Galileo, Russia's GLONASS, and China's BeiDou. Wikipedia
Fair, apparently at some point I conflated GNSS and Galileo.