so it begun: Introducing the Neo900 project - the first true successor for N900 we (the Neo900 team) are currently in the planning phase about a maemo5/fremantle-compatible successor of N900, with N900 look-alike (aka case) and a processor with more grunt and RAM. This is already beyond the state of vaporware, see www.gta04.org which this will base on. I.E. the GTA04 exists (350+ working units sold), what we're talking about are slight modification to GTA04 board to make it fit into a Neo900, with housing, display, digitizer aka touchpanel, cameras etc sourced from the commercial N900 spare parts market. (though our primary target is to provide ready-to-run complete devices, we will also offer an option for you to buy the GTA04-NeoNinehundred board only, instead of the complete Neo900 device, to upgrade any N900 you already may have) So it wll look like a N900, feel like a N900 and work like a N900, just way faster, thanks to the DM3730 CPU @1GHz and at least 512MB RAM (1GB depending on chip availability) plus maybe a few GB more of fast RAM-based "storage" as swap. And - that's our plan - it will have all the functionality you're used to from N900 plus sturdy USB (that won't fall off the PCB) with full OTG support, all sorts of new nice sensors like gyro and altimeter and compass, and at your choice a GSM/UMTS (3.5G) or LTE (4G) modem that doesn't break (or when it ever would then you can fix it). The AV/headset connector will offer new stereo line-in function on top of the usual mono mic and stereo-out and video. We will add a general purpose expansion interface under that battery lid - funny enough it turns out it's a superset of what Jolla is using on their TOH interface. Plus the whole device is 100% open, you get all the schematics and links to all the datasheets of the 'free' chips that are used. *), we don't work behind walls. The project is about the hardware, we can't run a software development department to port maemo to the device. It's up to a community effort to establish this. Two volunteers already hollered: freemangordon whom you all know from CSSU, and FatPhil, an ex_Nokia kernel maintainer :-) Many thanks to both! And I mustn't miss to mention that a lot of other community members also offered to help wherever they can in our newly formed fremantle porting task force. Many thanks to all of you too. Stay tuned for more to come :-) Please note Dos1's excellent post#5 below! *)what we we possibly will hand out later on only are the Eagle project files to feed the fab with. We won't hand out the "shopping list" with all the commercial contacts. What's also not available are docs about the powervr graphics core, but device works without using that core. We don't have access to any modem firmware sourcecode or sources for other subsystem firmwares. cheers jOERG PS: I added a public poll, to allow for evaluating if we might reach the minimum of 200 preorders with a target of 700EUR per complete device (just ballpark figures!) Context Links: http://www.mwkn.net/2013/36/front.html https://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=430 http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91308 http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments....3&cid=44840495 some timeline: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1374716 disclaimer: this project is not related to or driven by the maemo community council, nor does it get any support from council or HiFo Latest news: FUNDRAISER started, see http://neo900.org PLEASE NOTE http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=1383775