Germans build motherboard for Nokia N900 upgrade

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The German company Golden Delicious has a motherboard developed that is suitable for the Nokia N900. Users can with the motherboard of their device upgrade, but the company is also ready-made devices with the new motherboard to sell.

The project is OpenPhoenux called, reports Wired. Golden Delicious will with the alternate motherboard for the N900 manually upgrading mobile devices to stimulate, similar to how this with pc’s it is. The motherboard that the German company offers has a soc from the Omap3 series from Texas Instruments on board, and 512MB ram. Also, there is support for lte built in.

Users can use the motherboard for Golden Delicious to order to itself the N900 to upgrade. The company goes by the name of Neo900 the N900 with new motherboard to sell. This must be a price between 500 and 700 euros to be paid.

With the hardware used, according to the Germans also possible to use other mobile operating systems on the N900 to install. Thus, Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS and modified Android versions such as Replicant supported.

According to Golden Delicious for the Nokia N900, because the device is easy to adjust. That turned out to be earlier, because several developers have their own modifications have been developed. So started developers with the development of your own firmware after Nokia support for the smartphone dropped.