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GPS integrated OpenMoko competes for attention day of iPhone release

Jun 29, 2007 gps navigation, phones

It was on frontpage of Digg dubbed as the anti-iPhone. Just yesterday OpenMoko announced the availability of the first open source hardware phone called Neo 1973. We had talked about this GPS enabled Linux phone a while ago but then forgot about until last night when we read this announcement to the open source community.

In our factory in China, 400 Neos are waiting for you all. Another 600
will be ready before next week. More are queued up waiting for us to say go…
…Starting July 9th, we will launch openmoko.com and start taking orders.

They’re first going to make two models available for developers and starting in October this year will start shipping the ‘mass market Neo 1973′. They’ll ask $450 for Neo Base and $600 for Neo Advanced.

So why is this OpenMoko Neo 1973 is on Navigadget when every other site completely occupied by iPhone? Well, because unlike the iPhone, Neo 1973 has an integrated AGPS chip which you can read about in great detail here.