The phone is smaller and lighter than I thought it would be. It will fit nicely in my jeans pocket. Out of the box it comes with a functioning boot loader which can be used to flash the latest kernel and root filesystem onto the device. The phone then boots into a basic GUI with limited functionality. More importantly, however, I was easily able to SSH into the phone and run programs. Building a “hello world” example program was made very easy with the excellent MokoMakefile tool. This tool also setup a QEMU based emulator which also seemed to work well. I need to spend some time learning the build environment and then get Chicken Scheme running on the phone. I will post some pictures of my Neo1973 alongside some other devices I own such as the Treo 650.