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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by gjulianm on Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:14AM (#4515747)
Gecko will have an awesome performance. I went to Telefónica offices in Madrid a few weeks ago. They showed us a prototype (ZTE phone) running one of the lastest builds of Firefox OS (not the nightly, though). We touched it and it had pretty good perfomance. It was somewhat snappy on scrolling items, but overall a similar performance that you get on a medium-cost Android phone.

Then we asked about that device. It was a crappy ZTE with 600 MHz CPU and with the poorest Qualcomm chipset. This blew out my mind: a non-optimised system was running with acceptable performance on the lowest of smartphones. I can't imagine how will this perform when it's fully optimised on a high-end smartphone. They're doing a great work.

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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by andrewcooke on Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:53AM (#4515863)
any idea when/if it will be available to buy? or what markets they are aiming at (latin america?)?
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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by robhawkes on Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:55AM (#4515867)
Brazil at first, next year. We're working on developer devices that can be used worldwide.
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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by ravichhabra on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:43AM (#4516738)
Any developer version that we could buy? I don't mind if we have to pay more. Need to test this for Burma market.

Edit: Didn't read carefully. You already mentioned that developer versions would be available worldwide soon. Any mailing list to subscribe for the announcement?

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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by grayrest on Thursday September 13, 2012 @03:14PM (#4518003)
> Any developer version that we could buy?

Like all Mozilla projects, this is developed completely in the open. You can get an original Galaxy Nexus and flash it over to the latest nightly relatively easily. It probably works on other phones, but the nexus is what they gave out at JSConf so that's what I use. ;)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gec...

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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by callahad on Thursday September 13, 2012 @05:07PM (#4518619)
Correction: Nexus S, not Galaxy Nexus :)
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Re:There is something magical about Firefox OS by jmathai on Friday September 14, 2012 @12:36AM (#4520095)
> Like all Mozilla projects, this is developed completely in the open.

Surprised that even the tech community doesn't understand the significance of this.

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