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Re:Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS by aroch on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @12:58PM (#7025151)
The G1 was released as a high-end flagship smartphone to compete with the iPhone. The ZTE FxOS phones are low-end smartphones competing in the feature phone market.
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Re:Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS by comex on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @01:20PM (#7025348)
Yet, as it is five years later, the latter has considerably better hardware.
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Re:Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS by adamnemecek on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @02:43PM (#7025987)
But upon the initial release in 08, Android had already been in development for some 5 years.
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Re:Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS by comex on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @05:27PM (#7027273)
Maybe, but among other things, it was also running Java code on a pure interpreter :)

I don't have any personal experience of either the ZTE Open or G1's performance, but an ancient Android phone shouldn't be a hard target to beat.

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Re:Two Huge Companies Betting On Firefox OS by kevingadd on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @09:54PM (#7028452)
Missing the key detail that huge parts of the Android stack, even then, were not interpreted Java. (Skia, for example)
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