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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).

3 of 109 comments (clear)

  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: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

  3. 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.