Fair enough. It sounds like it's kinda there. And yet, for me, you kind of answered another question with "a few weekends" and "a few AT commands". Because at

Fair enough. It sounds like it's kinda there. And yet, for me, you kind of answered another question with "a few weekends" and "a few AT commands". Because at first blush that isn't as approachable as I'd like. And what you described was doing things that I already do rudimentarily with phones for years. Does it have gpio that I can do weird things with? And what about graphics programming? Because handhelds have screens, and I'm 1000% sure I don't want to have to navigate the X stack with C as I have over the years, or GTK, and frankly, I don't really want to have to setup compiler tool chains or any of that. I realize in typing this up, that while the Linux on a pi is cool, it's actually that I can hack Python live in it right away that makes it so accessible. I think what I want in an open/creative phone is a live AND graphical programming environment like Squeak/Smalltalk or something of similar ilk.