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Yeah, they have the same purpose. They are just a little less convenient to use.
I think the power efficiency of x86 is getting better lately, but still not good enough.
It would probably be pretty big and power hungry. It seems that it uses Coreboot, which contains proprietary blobs. Most x86 devices need those.
I hope some next phone will get a RYF certificate from the Free Software Foundation. That's already a pretty high standard.
I haven't heard of it before, but I doubt that Raspberry PI can be the solution. Does it even run a mainline Linux kernel?