Announced since the end of the year 2006, the mobile phone “Open Moko Neo 1973″ developed by Taiwanese FIC is now available for sale for the biggest amateur solutions GNU / Linux embedded. During the launch of this smart phone called FIC Neo1973, Funambulist, a company specializing in the development of mobile applications announced integration into the terminal after the first open source for use with its Linux operating system. Having thus features PIM data synchronization, of FIC Neo1973 also includes various other open source programs including a reader mail, a management function Push Mail, synchronization of photos, videos or ring tones, all based on Sync ML standardized format. Technically speaking, the Neo1973 has a screen 2.8-inch TFT capable of displaying a resolution of 480×640 pixels, tactile buttons, compatibility GSM (quad), an A-GPS receiver integrated processor and a Samsung ARM9 clocked a S3C2410 266 MHz, 128 MB RAM and 64 MB Flash ROM memory. Scheduled to be acquired mainly by amateurs software development under the GNU /
Linux, the mobile phone is being marketed at a price of 300 dollars a classical version against $ 450 in advanced version with a combined development environment (memory cards, chips, …).