The Neo900 project completed the first phase of development

The project to develop the Open Hardware version of the famous Nokia N900 , on the OpenMoko hardware platform, Neo900 , completed the first development phase, introducing the motherboard of the future device with LTE soldered modem , just one month after the announcement of the start of development.
The ultimate goal of the project is the ability to provide the owners of the original N900 with a hardware upgrade of their device, by replacing the native motherboard with a motherboard with modern components, an LTE modem, a faster processor and more memory. So in the plans, adding a compass and a gyroscope. Of course, the device must be fully compatible with the native Maemo 5 operating system for the N900.

Motherboard N900 (above) and Neo900.

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It is the same, with a soldered LTE modem.


And in the case of the original N900.


In fact, the board consists of two parts.


And so this sandwich will look "complete"


The project works on the principle of crowdfunding and at the moment has collected enough money to release 188 devices. As the developers say, if they find money for 1000 devices (and even better for 1000 devices per month;) then the price will drop significantly.