Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets

Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by ChrisAntaki on Monday February 24, 2014 @09:18AM (#7290832)

Definitely. I just hope they bring it to flagship phones as well. I could see a lot of developers and open source advocates jumping on it. Especially if it had granular permission controls, which I believe Google had to bail on for backwards compatibility reasons [1].

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/13/google-removes-apps-ops-p...

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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by fidotron on Monday February 24, 2014 @11:10AM (#7291518)

The problem with flagship phones is the screens, which are high res enough that GPU acceleration of the user interface is mandatory for decent performance. Doing good enough GPU side rendering of web content is an unsolved problem, and if your devs are having to worry about it (as many mobile web devs already do) you've lost the point of using the web stack in the first place.

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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by ChrisAntaki on Monday February 24, 2014 @12:16PM (#7291945)

Sencha had some great results, with their FastBook project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCn3R3-XxBU

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Re:Mozilla plans '$25 smartphone' for emerging markets by camus2 on Monday February 24, 2014 @02:31PM (#7292871)

so much great results they never open sourced that stuff... yeah ,like getting great results in HTML/JS is easy...

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