phoned will be a replacement for neod. the aux menu, power menu and display locking functinality will be outsourced in normal applications. phoned will send all sort of phone events through dbus, e.g.
The architecture will be similar to the architecture of blueZ.
Please contact "borg" in #openmoko or write an email to olaf@uni-paderborn.de if you want to help or have ideas for new events or other interfaces.