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Neo900 Hacker Phone Reaches Minimum Number of Pre-Orders For Production

Posted by Unknown on from the persistence-leads-to-victory dept.

First time accepted submitter wick3t writes "The Neo900 fundraising campaign has already achieved the milestone of 200 pre-orders which means that mass production is now feasible. This follows a successful first prototype that was showcased at the OpenPhoenux-Hard-Software-Workshop 2013. Their next target is 1000 pre-orders as they aspire to reduce the production costs of each device." For those not familiar, the Neo 900 is an offshoot of the OpenMoko GTA04 designed for use in the popular Nokia N900 case (and, yes, they're fixing the weak usb port).

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  1. Ubuntu Edge by johnsie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why does this phone get produced but the Ubuntu Edge doesn't?

    1. Re:Ubuntu Edge by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Why does this phone get produced but the Ubuntu Edge doesn't?

      Because one (Ubuntu EDGE) is a vaporware consisting of couple PhotoShop images and the other (Neo900) is a in-detail specified open hardware project based on the proven N900 lineage, built by community with long years of building open hardware smartphones (Neo FreeRunner, GTA04) ?

  2. Re:Yay by oodaloop · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My slashdot sig was once, "2010: The Year of Linux on the Phone". That year saw many new phones running Android and a few other Linux OSs, remarkable advancement from Android 1.5 to 2.2, and a huge increase in Android users and percentage of smart phones. Android is now past 80% of smartphones and climbing. I used to have an Android decal on my car, but I took it off because it was too mainstream. It was like saying I supported computers. I hope we have more competitors in this space, like Sailfish, but we are way past the year of Linux in your pocket.

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  3. Price. by MrEricSir · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because Ubuntu Edge cost four times as much? $625 was a lot to spend on a product that hadn't even been built, especially from a company that has no previous record when it comes to hardware.

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  4. Re:Great and wonderful... by Unknown+Lamer · · Score: 4, Informative

    According to their FAQ, the modem will support the UMTS frequencies used by both AT&T and T-Mobile in the US.

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  5. Re:resistive touchscreen Luddites. by dos1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Have you actually used the N900 touchscreen? I wouldn't replace it with any capacitive crap.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66RBfrBgL2E

  6. Re:resistive touchscreen Luddites. by wick3t · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you actually used the N900 touchscreen? There are many bad resistive touchscreens but the N900's is not one of them. The FAQ explains why the resistive touch screen is the superior choice for the target audience of this device. Remember that this device is not trying to compete with Android or iOS but it's aim is to provide functionality that you would find in a general purpose computer, hence multi-touch in not a priority.