daperl | # 1 | 2013-11-04, 14:20 | Report

Can someone explain the logo to me please. Why is the screaming phoenix going back into the fire? Shouldn't it be rising from the ashes? I don't want this project to crash and burn. Thanks in advance.

daperl | # 2 | 2013-11-04, 14:29 | Report

Whoa, really? I guess I can see that, but at first glance it looks to me like it's dive bombing.

joerg_rw | # 3 | 2013-11-04, 15:04 | Report

LOL, you evidently watched too many toons in TV. What you think was the head is actually the tail of the bird, with a few flames around it. It's an elegant jetlike bird going up, not a toon character going down.
Anyway thanks for bringing it up, I guess the artist (whoever it been) can change that logo so it's less tempting to toon fans to misinterprete it ;-)

/j

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rasmarc | # 4 | 2013-11-04, 17:09 | Report

the curved side of the wings is where the bird's tail is.

Coretech | # 5 | 2013-11-04, 17:35 | Report

I love the idea but i hate the choices of cases. The neo freerunner had an odd case so i didn't buy it. Now the Neo900 has a keyboard and i will not buy it because of that. Why not base it on a rectangular-ish case like iphone or simular. I bet it would make alot more people buy it.

Dave999 | # 6 | 2013-11-04, 17:39 | Report

I respect you opinion but you have plenty of choice like nexus & Co. I'm glade they went for a keyboard device. There are simply too few. Or none

Coretech | # 7 | 2013-11-04, 17:49 | Report

A truly open smartphone (with open source firmware for the gsm modem) does not exist of today that i know of. The ultimate phone would be a phone with the hardware of the Neo900 (with osmocom firmware) and a rectangular case. But that's just wishful thinking. I bet the next Neo phone will be spherical

joerg_rw | # 8 | 2013-11-04, 17:54 | Report

Please stay on topic! On a sidenote a phone with FOSS GSM stack is illegal to operate, everywhere except in anarchies where they won't have any network provider to use it in. Please stop spreading false claims here! A GSM stack needs certification and that has to be done even by the network operators. Operating a transmitter is basically illegal everywhere on the world without a licence to do so. I'd appreciate when you simply would delete your posts. They are incorreect and OT.

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Coretech | # 9 | 2013-11-04, 18:25 | Report

It's surely only illegal in the US The rest of the world would enjoy the open source/NSA free gsm stack. Sorry for the off-topic messages.

Ken-Young | # 10 | 2013-11-04, 18:28 | Report

Is it actually illegal to release the source code for a GSM stack?