Neo 1973

Neo 1973

Manufacturer	FIC
Release date	July 9, 2007 (2007-07-09)
Media	microSD, SDHC capable
Operating system	Openmoko Linux, Qtopia (both Linux-based)
CPU	Samsung s3c2410 SoC @ 266 MHz
Memory	128 MB SDRAM 64 MB NAND flash
Display	2.8 in. VGA (480×640) TFT, 282 pixels/in.
Input	touchscreen buttons
Connectivity	GSM GPRS Bluetooth 2.0 AGPS USB 1.1 slave and host 2.5-mm audio jack
Dimensions	120.7 × 62 × 18.5 (mm)
Successor	Neo FreeRunner

The Neo 1973 (development code name GTA01) is a smartphone developed by the Openmoko project to run the Openmoko Linux software platform. Furthermore other platforms have been ported to the Neo 1973, including Qt Extended, Debian and Android.

The Neo 1973 was designed as open source hardware. It is mostly using hardware components with open source drivers, the CAD files have been released under a ShareAlike Creative Commons license,^[1] and the schematics are available for download from OpenMoko^[2] and Wikimedia Commons ^[3] under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.

The device is named after the first year of mobile telephone communication: the inventor of the mobile phone, Martin Cooper, made the first call in 1973. The phone released was inconsistently-named Neo 1973 or Neo1973.^[4]

The Neo 1973 was sold from July 9, 2007 to February 2008. It was priced at US$300 for the basic model, or US$450 for a kit including more tools for hardware work.

The initial releases of the Neo 1973 were hampered by supplier shortages, which forced the shipping date to slip, and hardware development difficulties exacerbated by the small size of the core team.^[5]

The next version of the phone, Neo FreeRunner, started shipping on June 24th, 2008.

See also

• Neo FreeRunner
• Greenphone
• TuxPhone

References

1. ^ "openmoko.com | Download". Openmoko. 2009. Archived from the original on 2008-08-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20080822131123/http://www.openmoko.com/download-cad.html. Retrieved 2009-01-04. 
2. ^ "openmoko.com | Download". Openmoko. 2009. Archived from the original on 2008-08-22. http://web.archive.org/web/20080822131128/http://www.openmoko.com/download-schematics.html. Retrieved 2009-01-04. 
3. ^ "Category:Openmoko schematics". Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia. 2009. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Openmoko_schematics. Retrieved 2009-01-04. 
4. ^ "Neo1973". Openmoko Wiki. Openmoko. 2008-05-21. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo1973. Retrieved 2008-06-25. 
5. ^ Moss-Pultz, Sean (2007-04-25). "Some light ahead...". openmoko-announce mailing list. http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/announce/2007-April/000012.html. Retrieved 2007-06-30. 

External links

• Neo 1973 article on the OpenMoko wiki