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cellphones

OpenMoko Neo Freerunner Finally Available on July 4th

The OpenMoko Neo Freerunner we caught back in January will be available to order on July 4th. That makes the Linux-based cellphone a perfect birthday gift for Uncle Sam, assuming he's into shell commands. It'll run $400, press release after the jump. [OpenMoko] More »

9:30 AM on Wed Jul 2 2008
By Benny Goldman
4,763 views, 24 comments

linux

OpenMoko Neo Freerunner Pricing Details Surface

The OpenMoko Neo Freerunner has been in the making since before the Jurassic period, but it looks like official word has now been released regarding the final pricing details. The Linux based cellphone will retail at $399 for a single unit and $3690 for a pack containing ten handsets. More »

4:00 PM on Sat Apr 12 2008
By Haroon Malik
6,612 views, 13 comments

gaming

Neo Geo Arcade Controller For Wii Gives Retro Authenticity

Playing a Neo Geo fighter on the Wii just isn't the same unless you've got one of those four-button gamepads you used to find in the arcades. That's why we must insist that you buy one of these Neo Geo Stick 2 from Play Asia for $59, connect it to your Wii, and beat the crap out of your little brother with Mai. Your little brother may be 33 now and you may be 38, but that shouldn't change anything except the stakes. Winner pays the other guy's mortgage for a month. [Play-Asia via Technabob via Uber Gizmo]

3:30 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Jason Chen
3,139 views, 20 comments

Latest by n/a: oh yeah, I'm buying two of these! more »

cellphones

Kyocera Neo E1100 Brings OLED, Designer Sensibility to Low End Phone

The Kyocera Neo E1100 is a forgettable CDMA handset save for the fact that it has a glowing blue "lightpipe" and a hidden OLED display on its minimal exterior. Other than that, it has Bluetooth 2.0 and a 1.3 MP camera. But hey, it's nice to look at and it's coming soon to a North American carrier near you.

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12:00 AM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Adrian Covert
3,782 views, 6 comments

Latest by macrumpton: Better than tilting,have the camera detect your finger moving across the lens, sort of an optical trackball. That would be far more controllable and useful. more »

hotels

Best Hotels Around the World for Geeks, Neo Wannabes

If you are the kind who follows white rabbits, has weird deja vus, pops red pills, and you are planning to go to Sydney, Australia, anytime soon (not necessarily in that order,) the 31-story, 416-room Westin is the best hotel for you. After all, it was the place where the Deja Vu scene from Matrix was filmed and number 3 of the list of "best geek hotels in the world 2.0," whatever that means: More »

11:40 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Jesus Diaz
10,850 views, 9 comments

openmoko

Design and Make Your Own OpenMoko Phone

OpenMoko is taking its open philosophy a step beyond its Linux soul and has released the CAD (computer-aided design) files for the Neo1973, allowing you to design and create your own body for the phone. The catch for selfish bastards is that it's under a ShareAlike Creative Commons license, so you've gotta make w/ the show and tell if you whip up a pocket-size Second Coming. [OpenMoko]

1:27 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By matt buchanan
4,388 views, 6 comments

gadgets

Samsung's Vivace Shadow and Neo-Forte Air Conditioners Kill Germs

Having an air conditioner running during the summer while we're sitting naked on our leather chairs is luxurious enough, but an air conditioner that also kills germs? That's just plain opulent. Samsung's Vivace Shadow and Neo-Forte (black and white) air conditioners do just that, using their Micro Plasma Ion technology to kill 78 percent of fungus and 58 percent of bacteria within 30 minutes in a closed environment. It may look like a printer, but when's the last time you hung a printer on the wall? [Crave Asia via Unpluggd via DVice]

2:20 PM on Fri Feb 29 2008
By Jason Chen
5,188 views, 20 comments

Latest by n/a: Anybody has this in his house ? I recently bought the AQC24VBC VIVACE and the samsung 2008 air condition catalog with what i have here is not even close ! I mean where is the mirror look ? I can more »

cellphones

OpenMoko Neo Freerunner Linux Smartphone Hands-on

The Gadget: OpenMoko's just-announced Neo Freerunner, which is the mass-market version of their previous Neo 1973 phone.

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3:18 PM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By Jason Chen
16,944 views, 20 comments

smartphones

OpenMoko Launches Neo FreeRunner Open-Source Smartphone for the Masses

OpenMoko today announced the Neo FreeRunner, a mass-market version of the Neo 1973 open-source phone, and will be showing it off at CES next week. The phone will have the same "overall look and feel" as the developers' product, but it has a faster 500MHz processor, 3D graphics, and a new lineup of open-source mobile apps. It's a GSM tri-band world phone with either 850MHz or 900MHz on the low end, and it has 802.11b/g as well for hotspot action. Oh, and it will also have motion sensors for gesture-based activity. Pretty cool stuff, but as yet, there's no pricing or availability announced. Stay tuned, or jump for the press release. More »

9:22 AM on Thu Jan 3 2008
By Wilson Rothman
18,639 views, 12 comments

Latest by joer14: I have heard the that they are working on a usb mini b camera that could plug in to the phone. It would be wired or part of the battery case. more »

for neo wannabes

How To Do Matrix-Like Bullet Time Video at Home


Head to Instructables for a tutorial about how to do your own spectacular Matrix-like ghetto Bullet Time videos for those lovely OMG-grandma's-is-frozen-in-time-and-space moments. Using nothing more than wood, tubes, a whole lot of digital point-n-shots, one external shutter trigger and a box full of relays, you will be able to play Neo in the hood, but without red pills, white rabbits and black shiny latex. Or maybe with all that too. More »

6:15 AM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Jesus Diaz
12,284 views, 27 comments

Latest by ninjatales: I can't believe the Giz is finally starting to catch up with FOTC. Great show. Anyone seen the 2nd season? more »

cellphones

Wired's Open Phone Round-Up Tells the Bleak Truth

Rob Beschizza, lead blogger at Wired's Gadgetlab, has a popular article up glancing at the world of open source and unlocked phones like the Neo1973 from OpenMoko and Nokia's N series tablets. It does feel good to read about the theoretical of openness of these phones, some available now but not that open, some coming soon. But the truth seems to be that none of these are as polished as Apple's (even the Moto and Nokia examples here). And even for Apple's, the programs came quite quickly from those already familiar with writing for OS X. The energy in a device's dev community, recognized or not, is not to be underestimated in the success of it. That's more important than any official thumbs up by the manufacturers. Openness in a phone counts for nothing if no one gives a shit about it. [Wired]

6:19 PM on Fri Oct 12 2007
By Brian Lam
2,078 views, 5 comments

Latest by n/a: Windows Mobile development is dominated by suits who write boring programs and want to charge too much for 20 lines of code. more »

openup

OpenMoko Developer Preview Kit Unboxing: Wow, That's a Lot of Stuff

Someone got their OpenMoko Neo Advanced developer preview phone kit in the mail, so naturally the first thing they did was throw the Christmas-in-August pictures up on the net. That "Hi, I might contain a portable nuke" case is indeed packed to the gills. But for $450, it should be. [digg]

2:45 PM on Mon Aug 6 2007
By Matt Buchanan
5,587 views, 13 comments

Latest by gtr225: Who would've thought, people not only like owning their mobile devices, they also wanna own what's inside them too. more »

smartphones

OpenMoko's Neo 1973 Open-Source Smartphone Ships In October at $450 to $600

With all of the hullabaloo last week surround the iPhone, we nearly missed an update on the anti-iPhone, the world's first open-sourced Linux mobile phone known as the FIC/OpenMoko Neo 1973. The phone has more internal flash memory and integrated Wi-Fi. It will be ready for customers in October, available in $450 and $600 configs (a bit higher than the $350 we quoted you in February). On July 9th, 1,000 development kits will be comin' straight outta China, with more on the way. The hardware specs have been jacked up, too. More »

6:30 PM on Thu Jul 5 2007
By Wilson Rothman
20,472 views, 19 comments

Latest by ampm78: @Tonicboy: About the price, you and most people are forgetting that the iphone costs not only 500$, but also you have to get a contract with AT&T. If it were not for this carrier contract, the phone itself would cost more »

smartphones

First Look: the Anti-iPhone, OpenMoko's Neo1973

The OpenMoko Neo1973 linux-powered smartphone first crossed our radar last november. Then the iPhone came out and made us double-take on the device's multi-touch screen, and coincidentally similar interface. Yesterday we sat down with the Neo1973, and learned more about its features, three-phase road map, pricing, and how open software collaborators will be compensated for their contributions. We also took a gallery full of pictures. Read on... More »

Feature

8:53 AM on Thu Feb 15 2007
By Noah Robischon
27,311 views, 17 comments

smartphones

Sizemodo: iPhone vs. OpenMoko Neo1073

It's hard to tell how the open-source OpenMoko FIC Neo1973 smartphone compares to the Apple iPhone just by the two pictures we placed on our earlier post, so we decided to visually compare them with an official SizeModo. More »

10:27 AM on Wed Jan 17 2007
By Charlie White
1,864 views, 3 comments

smartphones

OpenMoko Smartphone: Did They Have a Time Machine, or What?

When we first saw this Linux-based OpenMoko FIC Neo1973 smartphone last November, we were wondering if it would capture the imagination of the open-source community. Now, after Apple's iPhone (pictured at right next to the Neo1973) has been unveiled, we're looking at this smartphone in a different context. More »

8:03 AM on Wed Jan 17 2007
By Charlie White
21,936 views, 45 comments

cellphones

Neo Tries Funky Design with 808i Cellphone

All of the rage lately with simple, minimalist phones was completely thrown out the window by Neo. They have entered the competitive cellphone market with the 808i. This is a tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone that has one hell of a strange form-factor and includes "3D graphics," Bluetooth, 1.3-megapixel camera, FM radio, MP3 player, microSD expandability and more. Slap me around and call me Sally, but there is something strange about having to use the phone in a horizontal form, then rotating it vertically to talk (yeah Sidekick fanboys, I'm calling you out). More »

2:18 PM on Thu Dec 14 2006
By Travis Hudson
455 views, 8 comments

Latest by huygir: small = cool. if it was just a bit thinner, it would be truly awesome (assuming it actually works as a phone). more »