I don't know, why so many here complaining and speculating about this and that. Who cares? Chen has told, that he is planning to build a qwerty-device without crowd funding probably capable of running SailfishOS. That's it.

If Chen succeeds, it's fine and I will probably will buy one or two devices (depending on the OS that is running on it in a as daily driver usable way). If not, I have nothing lost.

Chen is cheating you? How? If he keeps to his promise, that it is not a crowdfunded product, he hardly can. If there will no product at all, what have you lost (besides your hopes)?