We're however building a phone, not a PC. We're not competing with Jolla in whatever way, the devices and approaches are just too different.
And taking openness as well as privacy/security considerations into account has been our policy from very beginning, we didn't change goals, we just emphasized the security aspects a bit more leately in our public appearance. This doesn't mean the design of the device, or the goals, changed significantly from what it originally been when we sketched the project on our concept papers.
On a sidenote: we are not shipping a linux OS meant for daily usage as a phone with the device, we support community projects aimed at providing such OS, like FPTF and SHR and Replicant

When the keyboard is actually your only benefit you hope for from Neo900, then I guess you probably are rather the typical Jolla user who will be very happy when TOHKBD actually rolls out and works. Will be quite a bit cheaper and with more power too.

cheers
jOERG

Not sure about that.. Video-out(VGA?) + USB OTG + Desktop Linux, I think it's more like arm-based PC with phone-calls feature.

Hello,

Donated for a Neo900 two weeks ago and noticed that on the neo900.org website the infos of donations is from September 13, 2014 at 56K EUR. Maybe the site should be updated.

BTW, is it possible to put a better phone speaker (the one you use when you're on a phone call), as the volume coming from the one in the N900 is kind of low, and with time dust or lint from clothes get inside and block it, or maybe a "shield" to stop dust from getting in.

I have tried to keep abreast of this thread and I'm not sure if this has already been answered yet or not.
When it comes down to experimentation and devel. will there be something akin to scratcbox......
ie : a pc sandbox environment to safely design in without fear of mucking up our neo's? or is this rather the realm of fptf.(or is even that possibility in specific fptf reference to sandbox work.. only applicable to freemantle and not other os's? or would the sandbox environment be rather device than (any of the other viable) os specific? is that feasible or possible even? Or am I just off my meds?...I'm gambling that I'm just off my meds...I just answered my own query concerning meds...so ya it must be the meds...)

I think it should be possible to make a QEMU VM that emulates the Neo900.

That's exactly the kinda positivity (gawd I hate that currently coined word...but in this one instance it sounds good) I love to hear....

From an emulation point of view, Neo900 is identical to N900. That's one of the major points about it, it's sufficiently identical hardware so programs/apps that run on N900 shall also run on Neo900. The faster CPU, 4 times the RAM, different modem etc will not matter in any EMU at all. Neither will the additional sensors, since SB emu doesn't emulate any sensors after all.

/j

Just what I was wondering.
That is absolutely perfect.

Quick reply...

Going to double my donation, soon (within this week).

Anybody else wants to have a back-up Neo900? Just in case the first one breaks? Or to give as gift to somebody?

By the way, check out http://neo900.org/ : "starting to source risk parts for board itself, like 1GB RAM and RGB LEDs for kbd backlight." As mentioned on IRC, 'The funds basically don't allow securing of "expensive" stuff like the PoP RAM'.

So, early-large donations are welcome!

Best wishes.

well wiki....
if you are gonna do that...
welcome to the double-up club

and ya I figured that base donation / deposit would go only so far ...
especially with needed components...
(not to mention it knocks down the final payment I gotta shuck out for... )