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NeonodeNeonode is a Swedish manufacturer of mobile phones. The company was founded in 2001 by Magnus Goertz. They have approximately 20-30 employees and have their premises at Biblioteksgatan by Stureplan in Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden. The company's products have patented technologies known as "zForce" and "Neno" which are featured in their products. Neonode has made three models, "N1", "N1m" and "N2". All three products feature a common optical touch screen technology unique to Neonode in the mobile phone industry.
History
When Magnus Goertz sold his IT-company for almost $8.5 million (60 million SEK) in 2000, he decided to realize his dream of building his own mobile phone. On the way to this goal he met a lot of problems.
In March 2002 Neonode showed its own mobile phone for the first time at the Dutch IT trade show and before Christmas the same year they arranged a press conference at "Fryshuset" in Stockholm. They got much attention for their innovative creation, resulting in a pre-order list of approximately 20,000 persons.
In the beginning of July 2004 released their first model "N1", which the firm had planned to release two years earlier. In march 2005 an upgrade came, the "N1m". The added "m" indicates that the previous VGA camera has been replaced by a megapixel camera. Other updates were vibration, triple band and a better battery.
On the 22nd January, 2007, Neonode and SBE, Inc. announced that the two firms have agreed on a merger.
In February, 2007, Neonode unveiled their new product called N2 at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona. This was the firm's first all-new product since the N1 and the first new release since N1m. The new product brought with it a new lighter and minimalistic design, along with new features including a 2 Megapixel camera, Quadband GSM and Bluetooth.
zForce
Neonode removed the traditional keypad on their mobiles – instead they have an on-screen keyboard. This makes Neonode easier to use with one hand, just sweep over and tap the screen surface to access the different features displayed. Light beams form an invisible grid over the screen and finger location is detected as the beams are crossed. Neither a stylus nor any pressure is needed.
Neno
Neno is the name of Neonodes graphical user interface (GUI) and operating system running on the Microsoft Windows CE platform. As Neonode still develops Neno they regularly make new updates and versions available on their homepage. These updates can contain bug fixes, new functions as well as pure improvements of the software.
Criticism
When Neonode announced their revolutionary communication device in 2002, Neonode underestimated the time it took to produce a working cell phone and the money started to run short. They had to lay off employees which caused more delays.
The high expectations of the consumers and tech-lovers were dashed as the cell phone did not hit the 'shelves' on its planned release date. Its future was uncertain as Neonode delayed its release indefinitely.
It was not until Q3 2004 that Neonode began sales of the N1 by which the cutting edge features of the N1 had already begun trickling into other models and had reduced its appeal. Its 2-year delayed release had also brought negative press towards Neonode, with their phone N1 labelled as vaporware.
Upon release of the N2 model in February, Neonode fans were once again disappointed as hyped rumors that dated back to 2005 which suggested features such as a larger screen and Wifi were proved untrue. The largely cosmetic nature of the N2 upgrade also disappointed many who had expected a more substantial hardware upgrade.
N2 facts
Operating system: Windows CE 6.0
Display: 176 x 220 Pixels (Width x Height), 16-bit Colour TFT
Audio: Hifi stereo 48 kHz playback
Memory Storage: miniSD
Connectivity: GSM Quadband: GSM850,GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900 MHz), Bluetooth, GPRS
Size: 47x77x14,7 mm (WxHxT)
Weight: Approx 70g
Imaging: 2 Megapixel Fixed Focus Camera, Still pictures, Video play-back (MPEG, WMV), Video Recording (MPEG4)
Messaging: SMS, Support for long SMS, MMS, Predictive text input, T9 (English, Swedish, German, Spanish, French and Russian), Call history (dialed, received and missed calls)
Audio: Audio player (MP3, WAV, WMA), stereo 48 kHz playback, Custom ring tones (MP3, WAV, WMA), Alarm application
Entertainment: Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer (HTML-browser), Games, 3rd party software downloadable
N1m facts
Operating system: Windows CE 5.0
Display: 176 x 220 Pixels (Width x Height), 16-bit Colour TFT
Audio: Hifi stereo 48 kHz playback
Memory Storage: SD card up to 2 GB
Connectivity: GSM Triband: GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900 MHz), USB 1.1
Size: 88 x 52 x 21 (H x W x D)
Weight: 94g
Imaging: Megapixel Camera (1024x1024), Imageviewer, Videoplayer (MPEG 1, MPEG 4, WMV)
Messaging: SMS, Support for long SMS, MMS, Predictive text input, T9 (English, Swedish, German, Spanish, French and Russian), Call history (dialed, received and missed calls)
Audio: Audio player (MP3, WAV, WMA), stereo 48 kHz playback, Custom ring tones (MP3, WAV, WMA), Alarm application
Entertainment: Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer (HTML-browser), Games, 3rd party software downloadable
Organiser: Calendar, Tasks, Phonebook with storage capacity of 1000 contacts, Add an individual picture for each contact, Synchronize with your PC using ActiveSync (requires extra software free of charge from Microsoft)
Miscellaneous: Large touch-screen, On-screen keyboard, Screen saver, Vibrator, Calculator, Updates available at the Neonode website, USB memory functionality, use N1 as portable storage device
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