Neo1973 with OpenMoko

Could not understand anything from the title, could you? Well, OpenMoko is an operating system platform based on linux for mobile phones and Neo1973 is a mobile phone based on the same. OpenMoko(Open Mobile Kommunikation) was announced by First International Computer(FIC) in 2006, and the first piece of hardware on which it will run is the FIC Neo1973.



The Neo1973 will have a 128 MB of RAM, 64 MB flash and an upgradable 64MB SD card. It features a 2.8" VGA touchscreen display. It also includes a GPS module attached to it, with its apis open to the world around. OpenMoko is designed to be customizable and so the Neo1973 will be containing only the basic feature set including a dialer, an email/text messaging client, phone book, media player and a software like apt-get in linux for installing new softwares/updates. More details about the phone and images at linuxdevices.com