The company FIC, has produced the Neo1973, with specific hardware and software are made available to the community (open source), contrary to what happens with the Apple IPhone and therefore we do not like ;-)
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The name seems to derive from the combination of Neo (Matrix protagonist of the film) and the date 1973, ie the year of the first phone from Marty Cooper. The smartphone is equipped with an operating system GNU / Linux Open Moko developed specifically for mobile devices.
The Neo1973 is equipped with CPU 266Mhz Samsung 2442 SoC, touchscreen display 2.8 "high resolution VGA (480 × 640) TFT display, USB 1.1, Bluetooth 2.0 slot for MicroSD memory cards, 128 MB of SDRAM and 64MB NAND Flash, AGPS, and is compatible with the GSM network 2.5 (quadband, voice, CSD, GPRS).
Available versions: Neo Base and Neo Advanced, are different for the accessories included.
The prices, for models geared to developers, ranging between $ 300 for Neo Base model and $ 450 for Neo Advanced, both in white and black, available here.



































