The other project already had finalized most of the design (which took years of work prior to crowdfunding), had multiple assembled prototypes, and were promising shipping in 6 months. It turned out to take 2 to 3 years between all the component delays, negotiating with manufacturers, getting production lines set up, hardware certification, fixing design flaws, yelling at manufacturers for doing something wrong. Some of these delays probably could've been avoidable but there truly seemed to be surprises every step of the way.

These people seem to have not much more than a dev board that talks to a PC, and are promising to go from that to shipping fully assembled phones in 1 year. It would truly be amazing to see but I really don't think that's a realistic amount of time