While Purism has allegedly finally managed to ship out their developer kits, Necunos will provide you with a thingy they call a smartphone much faster.1
Necunos NC_1
The Necunos project may be scam. Be careful!
Specifications:
- SoC: NXP i.MX Quad, ARM Cortex A9 quadcore @ 1.2 GHz, Vivante GPU (Etnaviv driver, hardware acceleration)
- 1 GB Ram (meh!)
- 8 GB Storage
- 3500 mAh Battery
- 5,0″ display (no resolution given)
- Aluminum body
- 5 MP Camera
- Audio: 3.5mm audio jack
- Charging: Micro-USB, Data transfer disabled
- Microphone: Built-in microphone
- Speakers: 2 Built-in speaker
- WLAN: WiFi (via SDIO) WL1801 (2.4 GHz)
- Ethernet: High speed 100Mb/s
- Serial: Internal
- Closed source firmware with memory access: NO
- Binary blobs: NO
- Locked bootloader: NO
- Operating Systems: Multiple community driven operating systems to choose from.
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- Plasma Mobile on Debian
- Plasma Mobile on postmarketOS
- Maemo Leste
- Nemo Mobile
- Lune OS
- maybe Replicant later?
Price: 1199 EUR
Continue reading “Necunos NC_1 or a Lunchbox Smartphone?”
- To me, this – while it is an admirable effort – is not a smartphone, but rather a modern Linux PDA since it has no modem to connect to cell services. I’ll keep sticking to this 22 year old definition, where a smartphone has to be an actual phone. [↩]