We've been excited about the Neo1973—the world's first fully open-source smartphone—since chatting with its creator, Sean Moss-Pultz, at CES. As the time to unleash the Neo into the wild draws ever closer, Sean was nice enough to stop by and show us how things are coming so far. Although the OpenMoko software still needs some work, the phone itself is in its final form, and quite a nice form at that. So if you're the type of person who could stare all day at a cellphone screen showing a stream of startup code and the ol' Linux penguin up at the top (a category I'm not afraid to pledge allegiance to as well), click on over to our photo gallery of a working Neo1973 captured in the wild. We'll keep you posted as this groundbreaking phone continues to mature. —John Mahoney
I can't wait I can't wait I can't wait
Posted by: matt | February 23, 2007 at 02:44 PM
Is that a design flaw or something?
The mic is above the NEO1973 logo, and the LANYARD goes through the loop at the bottom - so when you hold the phone up you also end up wrapping the LANYARD around your hand and neck at the same time - looks great.
too add to the misery you also have the stereo speakers at the bottom of the phone with the lanyard, which gives you stereo sound that's not going directly into your ear - so what do you do when you can barely hear someone? push the edge of the phone into your ear?
who approved this design, please tell this is NOT the FINAL version!!!
Posted by: shakir | March 06, 2007 at 08:07 PM
I can't believe how much of this I just wasn't aware of. Thank you for bringing more information to this topic for me. I'm truly grateful and really impressed.
Posted by: Health News | March 22, 2011 at 05:40 AM