A consumer tablet designed and shipped to run linux... pretty sweet, might need to snatch one up.
@freemo You might wish to take a look at PineTab (https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/) too. It's way less powerful (CPU-wise and memorywise); I have no clue about battery life; there's 2~3 different GUI shells that work better or worse on it.
@robryk I have seen pinetab. A few reasons i never got one includes its hard to find one to buy (last I looked), doesnt look nearly as sexy, lacks a stylus or high resolution (resolution is a deal breaker for me), and this new jingOS that can also run android apps and has a nicer tablet-oriented UI is a big selling point potentially.
@robryk the OS itself has been out for a year now and looks in screen shots to be pretty clean. That said I havent tried it but you or myself or anyone can always just run it in a virtual machine to see if it is as polished as the screenshots looks.
Other OSes claim to have the whole "run android on linux" thing down too. Sailfish does this but its proprietary. I havent personally tested it and I cant say if they did a good job but I do agree with you that getting android to work on linux is probably nontrivial. Supposidly there are other tools on linux that let you run android in any distro but I havent tried those either... either way doing that side well would be impressive for sure.
I can say this, all the solutions I know of that run android on a linux box are usually modified versions of debian and not modified versions of android.