Necunos NC_1 and NE_1 open-source smart phone press release

This site reeks of amateur hour scam.

> Purchase of NC_1 will be available through the Necuno Solutions web store (<necunos.com/shop/>) on 3rd of January 2019.

And that URL is even unclickable.

The Q&A page contains nothing more than

> "No one, Nobody."

(This seems to be their kiss of death page.)

No comparison of OSes on the device shopping page.

The "community" page cannot be zoomed out or scrolled to see the right side of each line of the text.

At least the VAT number seems legit[1].

Sure, maybe their web devs are utter newbs and have nothing to do with the rest of the team, but it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vatResponse.html

The first thing I want to see on a high-security product web site (literally, the first item I see with my eyes) is a list of the individuals putting their names on the line backing up this security claim and a paragraph of why I should trust those specific people. Outside of that, this "phone" could be developed by the [insert TLA agency here] and released in order to gain access to highly sensitive communications from people who don't know better. I can't seem to find a single person's name or references on this site anywhere, so I would never trust that this device isn't wildly insecure.

It's great to see the number of OSs available for these phones. Hopefully projects like this can create a sort of desktop-linux-distribution-like ecosystem for phones, to develop alternatives to iOS and Android.

I have to be missing it, but I don't see how it is an open-source smart phone? The closest I see is “We created Necuno Mobile with enterprise customers in mind first, but as open-source operating system enthusiasts we also wanted to provide this platform to the free and open-source communities, and we hope this drives growth and interest towards them. Lets secure the freedom of mobile together”. That to me says they are providing the platform (i.e. hardware) to be open sourced, but the actual device software is not.

In addition, I don't see anything else about it. Seeing "With the completely verifiable software designed security first, isolated chips, end-to-end-encryption and wiretap proofed, NE_1 is suitable for extreme security use cases." Makes me extremely skeptical. How is it wiretap proofed? How does it use end-to-end encryption? What chips are being used?

Is it really a phone with no cellular connection? Not that that is a bad thing in itself, and we don't really have a good name for it [edit: time to bring back the PDA?], but I couldn't replace my phone with it.

Does not include a cellular modem BTW.

€1199.00 for the NC_1

> NOTE: Necunos NC_1 is an engineering unit. It does not have cellular modem or SIM-card slot.