Nokia seems to have upped their hardware game, the 701 has a 1GHz cpu and 512MB ram.

For a device to be a "geekphone" it must have minimum of 1024mb of ram, if it aint got that then forget it.

Complain all you want, but a device developed in this manner would be WAY more likely to see a non-Android platform come to it than any phone released by a major vendor.

I have to agree totally with you on this one !.

I fail to see how is it a geek's phone if the technical specifications on their site is even specific right down to the chipsets used for WLAN, bluetooth, etc, etc, etc. Yet their branding is quite deceiving for what labels one as a geek.

Also their technical specifications are nowhere near as powerful as the android phones on the high tier. That is not something that a geek would actually want in fact. I'm sure geeks are very trendy people.

Maybe in a nutshell the phones they sell are really for those geeks on budget? I can only see low-mid tier range from these phones. No dual core, a measly 256MB of RAM with 512MB EEPROM, 802.11b/g (no 802.11n), bluetooth v2.1 and no hardware keyboard. Its also funny to note that their previous phone, aka geekphone one has a hardware keyboard but this `zero' version doesn't.

Maybe it's because this is the second phone they've ever done, and higher end hardware is harder to get at if you're a low volume buyer? Perhaps developing this has the given them the knowledge necessary to be more successful with higher end hardware down the line (which is undoubtedly harder to work with and more expensive to assemble and prototype.)

I'm shocked that people are dumping on them, despite doing what no other handset vendor would do and what OpenMoko never succeeded at.

I'll definitely keep my eye on their next hardware revision, with luck they'll leapfrog the N900 and come out with something slick next revision.

If its open hardware i wouldn't mind a lower speced device although this is too low.
I hope their next iteration includes a hardware keyboard.