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CORRECTION: It is only the follow-up device that has been killed off.  The Neo FreeRunner will continue to be sold.
It appears that the open source smartphone known as the Neo FreeRunner made by Openmoko has breathed its last breath (in German).  Openmoko’s CEO, Sean Moss-Pultz, announced that he has killed the product and that his [...]

The FreeRunner from Openmoko (and Koolu) has recently been snapped running the up-and-coming Cupcake version of the Android OS. Cupcake will offer a whole host of improved features to Android, including stereo Bluetooth, video recording, and of course the most coveted of all, the dynamic on-screen keyboard. Although the pictures are not of particularly [...]

We are happy to report that a few new pictures of the Neo FreeRunner by Openmoko (running Android) have surfaced over at iMAndroid. We apologise for the blurriness of the photos, but we do believe they are genuine. iMAndroid claim that they think the FreeRunner will be the second Android clad phone on the market, [...]

Andrew Greig, CEO of Koolu, has just informed us that his company is offering the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner for $100 off of the regular $399 price tag for a limited time.  The FreeRunner is an open platform smartphone that can be used with a number of different operating systems, including a beta version port of [...]

Koolu, a company that distributes and installs third party software to open-source phones, has ported the Android OS to the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner.  The beta for the Android OS on the FreeRunner will begin in early December, and the final product will be released in Q1 of 2009.   Openmoko will also factory install Android [...]

The clever chaps over at OpenMoko are hard at work on an Android port to their existing Freerunner and Neo1973 phones. Although OpenMoko hasn’t set an official timeline for the port, Canadian company Koolu is already pledging to offer Freerunners (rebranded as WE Phones) running a beta of Android around November. We’ll believe it when [...]