Thanks a lot for recommending Android. I really don’t need a super-phone, and I am happy with my Nokia 6300. I generally pick the “best” phone my company gives away for 0 eur, be it because I cash accumulated points, or because I switch companies. The thing with the Neo is that I love to play with a gadget, which I infer I would also be able to do with my android terminal. The advantage with it would be that it would also double as a usable telephony device. However, I’m a bit concerned with the openness of Android terminals and of the software itself. Android is advertised as “Linux-based” (the kernel is a modified Linux kernel), and “free software”, but it is not completely so. Maybe the software of Android itself is FS, but as a platform, I am afraid of its freedom limitations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#Restrictions_and_issues. For example, I want to be able to SSH to my phone, I want to have a proper shell on it (I have zsh in my Neo), I want an Xserver (I can run GNOME or KDE in my Neo!), I want to install packages from a Debian-like repo (I run Debian in my Neo), I want to run Python, Perl, bash, etc. scripts, or run cron, or compile Fortran or C (well, at least I want to be able to). I have no reasons to think you can’t do that on Android… but I don’t want to pay a lot to find out.

Of course, I’ll be happy to get one if by some trick (e.g. switching telecom) I can get one really cheap (read, for free), but I won’t lose sleep over it. Your recommendation adds +1 to this desire, however :^)

I was just thinking that you’d love an Android phone, mine have been awesome, then you mention you can actually get Android going on the FreeRunner. It definitely has enough space in NAND, though I’d recommend sticking to Donut (v1.6) with 128Mb RAM.

Maybe see if you can pickup a cheap secondhand Dream (G1) or Magic (myTouch 3G)?