Skunkworks: Forget the IPHONE: Neo1973 is here!

This is the phone to have. Simply put, this phone puts all else to shame. Yep the Iphone included.

so here we go:
Software stack is open

Hardware specs for the Neo1973:

while being totally open!! What i would love to see is a WLAN chip

Yes, there have been Linux phones before, but this one is doing it right:

tracking mainline kernel;
no binary drivers allowed, period; which implies
complete and deliberate standards adherence (USB spec, interfaces to all components, etc); which means
using existing kernel drivers wherever possible, and when new code has to be written, doing so in a way that is most likely to be accepted by the kernel as a whole

Other awesomeness:

the debug board they came up with is a full JTAG adaptor that’s so with-it that people have started using it to debug other devices;
a build service whereby you can submit code and they will build you an image you can test immediately — no need (at first, anyway) to go through the immense pain that usually goes along with setting up a build & cross compile environment;
a hardware emulator that runs in QEMU, so you can even get on with testing code without having to wait for a build

And, of course, near and dear to my heart:

runs the GNOME stack: that’s GTK running up in that picture there!, and
there are GObject APIs to talk to the device libraries, GLib main loop integration, all the goodies.

Hooray!

Things i would love to hack in

SyncML support (all my contacts backed up)
ical support (google calender, evolution...)
Location based services (Based on GPS output... ex. Passing by Mobil, and u happen to be a pizza fun and it's TUES.... = BOGOF{BuyOneGetOneFree} )
apt support if it's not there
social networking apps (traffic mgt and info in nrb)
Bluez Personal Area Network with laptop/Devcons
ssh port
.....Free your mind

General availability was slated for oct 2007. I hope they are ontrack.

Skunkworks