I could never get ibus to work on Wayland.

The Sony Xperia is a reasonable alternative, and the 5 series is small although a bit tall, but it has a convenient one-hand mode if you are not able to reach the very top of the screen. I have been fairly satisfied, so far, although I miss the FM receiver and IR blaster of my old Xperia ZL and V20

Hardware/software is not the problem. As mentioned, it's the whitelists. I have a perfectly good LG V20 that works just fine on VoLTE in other countries, but in the US, it is no longer on whitelists so I cannot use it as a regular phone. I still love it and use it, but only as a mini-tablet device. I agree, whitelists are evil!

I have been looking for an affordable way to keep my SGl Fuel SCSI drives running. Now, SCSI drives are expensive! And converter cards rare and expensive, too!