Can you explain to me why this would be a priceless device? I may be missing something (and if I am, please tell me what I'm missing), but why is this an attractive product now? As far as I can tell, the neo900 hardware will be about what one would have expected in a good phone circa 2011. So the neo900's only realistic selling point is privacy. As I understand it, the main privacy protections it will offer is the ability to power-off the baseband processor, and to prevent the baseband processor from having unrestricted DMA access to the device's main RAM.

But anytime you connect to a cell tower with any device, or even WiFi hotspot, you unavoidably become trackable. So how does the neo900 give you more privacy than you would have if you simply carried a cell phone that you put a battery in only when you wanted to contact a cell tower, and a laptop that used that cell phone's WiFi hotspot for internet access?

What am I missing? Who's going to want to buy one of these, at this late date? And why?