"This is why I'm backing the Neo900[1]. It might be a bit pricey and low spec'ed by today's market (a consequence of it catering for a niche market meaning it w

"This is why I'm backing the Neo900[1]. It might be a bit pricey and low spec'ed by today's market (a consequence of it catering for a niche market meaning it won't be mass produced) but in my opinion that's a small price to pay to actually own your phone (it's actually more akin to a mobile computer than a phone)." You misunderstand. neo900, while interesting in many ways, has a standard, off the shelf (closed) baseband, and that baseband has control over your processor and memory as deep as DMA. Your carrier owns you. Your carrier can literally flip bits in your memory with silent OTA updates that you have no knowledge of, or control over. This is not to mention the other, third computer in your hand, which is the SIM card, which you also have no control over and which your carrier can upload arbitrary executables to, which run outside of your control. The neo900 does not save you.