wraggster
December 3rd, 2013, 23:12
The Neo900 (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/11/02/1637236/openphoenux-neo900-bills-itself-as-successor-to-nokias-n900) fundraising campaign has already achieved the milestone of 200 pre-orders (http://neo900.org/#donate) which means that mass production is now feasible (http://projects.goldelico.com/p/neo900/downloads/get/neo900-feasibility.pdf). This follows a successful first prototype (http://neo900.org/news-0005-phase-i-results-ohsw-showcase) that was
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPmXxq1MdQ at the OpenPhoenux-Hard-Software-Workshop 2013 (http://ohsw.org/). 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 (http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/) designed for use in the popular Nokia N900 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900) case (and, yes, they're fixing the weak usb port).
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/12/02/2246227/neo900-hacker-phone-reaches-minimum-number-of-pre-orders-for-production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPmXxq1MdQ at the OpenPhoenux-Hard-Software-Workshop 2013 (http://ohsw.org/). 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 (http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/) designed for use in the popular Nokia N900 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900) case (and, yes, they're fixing the weak usb port).
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/12/02/2246227/neo900-hacker-phone-reaches-minimum-number-of-pre-orders-for-production