orangepi are definitely trying - they have a bunch of boards over the years and still developing new ones.
Orange 2G-IOT is a bad product unfortunately. Out of the box with official linux image just WIFI settings applied we get kernel bug
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[ 20.511535] kernel BUG at arch/arm/plat-rda/md_sys.c:224!
[ 20.512207] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT THUMB2
[ 20.512878] Modules linked in: rdawfmac autofs4
[ 20.513488] CPU: 0 PID: 414 Comm: alsactl Tainted: G W 3.10.62-rel5 .0.2+ #92
[ 20.514465] task: ce342b40 ti: cd4c6000 task.ti: cd4c6000
[ 20.515136] PC is at rda_msys_sync_write_timeout+0x11c/0x1cc
[ 20.515808] LR is at rda_msys_sync_write_timeout+0x11d/0x1cc