Re: You get what you pay for
https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
Cheap with various Linux flavours to suit your taste.
Review:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/11/pinephone-specs-price-release-date
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There is no leaner, more easily configurable and supportive community than provided by #! (Crunchbang Linux) - it works on all my devices from a v1 Eeepc701 to a Dell XPS M1330 laptop to my quad core desktop machine where it zips along at an extraordinary rate.
The new "Statler" release is based on Debian and therefore is smooth and rock solid. A wonderful introduction to Linux and its workings.
http://crunchbanglinux.org/
As James Butler says above, this is nothing to do with killing off the app and everything to do with the app developer's ideas and attitude in regard to creating a new kind of IMAP-like email server that uses 2010 technologies.
See Gabor Cselle's own post at
http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog/2010/02/how-to-replace-imap.html
Paris, cos she likes a bit of HTTP long-polling...