Its official, folks! OpenMoko is announcing that its Neo FreeRunner open source handset will be available July 4th. Purchase it for US$399 from the site and they will start shipping units on July 7th. The Neo FreeRunner is a unique piece of kit in today’s handset market in that it runs GNU/Linux and its hardware specifications and even the cases CADD files are availalbe at no cost. This allows anyone to modify every single aspect of the handset to meet their own needs. OpenMoko was spun off from FIC, the Taiwanese motherboard and PC system components maker, last year after an extremely popular developer release of an earlier version of the handset.

written by Tyler Regas