Following in the footsteps of Jolla, Helsinki-based construction company Necuno is preparing surprises. Nearly five years ago, Jolla, a company from a team of former Nokia engineers, turned to Sailfish OS to produce a viable Android alternative.
Jolla long ago abandoned the idea of a mobile devices but developers are still tinkering with Sailfish OS.
Yesterday, Necuno revealed details of a device it hopes will offer an open source alternative to smartphones running on iOS and Android. Necuno works with KDE, the company that develops the Plasma desktop for Linux as well as the Plasma Mobile interface.
KDE is also working with Purism on Librem 5, a smartphone that is considered more secure than Android.
Necuno will reportedly manufacture its device in Finland. It will have one screen 5,5 inches and will work with NXP chipset (Arm Cortex-A9 i.MX6 quadcore) with Vivante GPU.
It will be made of aluminum and will have a 3,5 mm audio jack, a micro-USB port. It will run on some kind of mobile operating system based on Linux and will uses the Plasma Mobile interface. There are no details yet on the device's RAM and storage.
Necuno also did not disclose pricing details, but said the phone would be available soon.
He also stressed that the first device will not feature connection LTE but that it plans to include an Ethernet port of some type.
"For obvious security reasons, our first devices will not include a cellular module, but we know how important it is to you. So we talk to providers to allow LTE and other wireless IP connections. In our opinion, being mobile is not the same as a mobile phone ", the company states on her blog.
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