Grench
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To be fair, I'm not even sure those facts will help you either.
The mobile Pyra is 714 Eur for the cheaper version, which is about £620. For that price, I can replace my phone every year for about 4 years with a new model for the same money. The phones have less bulk, but also respectable battery life; and who cares about repairing when you can just replace it with an upgraded model? You might just be replacing for 3.5 years instead of 4 if I have to replace a broken model early.
Also, on the Pyra upgrade side... well, unless ED runs down a path of a new CPU board each year, you're certainly not going to get the same upgrade "rate" (regardless of how useful those phone "upgrades" actually are); and AFAIK, there's never been talks of upgrading things like screen resolution (4K videos?) etc. . You certainly can't get a larger screen for the Pyra but your next phone could be larger (well, unless you've already got a Gemini which again isn't strictly a phone)
To which, something that hurts the Gemini in reviews - and likely will hurt the Pyra... Not a phone. They'll get reviewed by the 'phone guy' who either despises all things not Apple or all things not Android. Neither device is 'phone first'. The Gemini is 'keyboard first phone second' and the Pyra is 'game controls first on-device storage second and general computing second and yeah it kind of has phone hardware in it'. Neither one is likely to hit high marks in a phone review by a 'phone reviewer'.