Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India

Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by yitchelle on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @03:16PM (#7879881)

Agree with you here. At this price point, smart phone is starting to be a commodity item, just like the shirt you are wearing, like the cup of coffee you drank this morning or like that piece of apple you ate.

Just need for the service provider to give ground breaking plans. Imagine having a flat data plan for $5/month at LTE speed with this type of smart phone.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by outside1234 on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @03:38PM (#7880000)

"flat data plan for $5/month at LTE speed with this type of smart phone"

Flat data plans are gone forever I'm afraid. We might get more data for less money over time but there is no way they are going back to unmetered data.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by maccard on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:06PM (#7880127)

You're obviously in the US I take it? I'm in ireland and have a UK sim card too. Both my providers (granted, same provider in both countries) give me unlimited data, for 20 euro/25 pounds a month. I also get calls and texts included in that.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by arboroia on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:05PM (#7880125)

Not sure how it is in the USA, but unmetered data plans do exist - here in Ireland it's the equivalent of ~$27 for unmetered 4G data (with a certain limited number of calls and texts included)

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by yitchelle on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @04:57PM (#7880411)

Un-metered data in Germany as well. Only the speed gets throttled when I reached my quota. This is not much of a problem with so many open wifi access points around these days.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by batuhanicoz on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @05:25PM (#7880534)

Same thing here in Turkey with Vodafone.

Last time I've used that plan it was 9 liras/3$ a month.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by andor on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @07:38PM (#7881058)

Only the speed gets throttled

...by a factor of >100, which narrows down the use cases a lot. They don't completely turn off your internet, but they turn off >99%.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by mrbill on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @03:33PM (#7879975)

This type of phone is going to have 3G data at most.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by jhatax on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @03:57PM (#7880098)

This phone lacking 4G shouldn't be a show-stopper in India, where most of the network providers only have 3G networks deployed. Reliance has announced a 4G network, but it hasn't been deployed yet.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by soapdog on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @05:18PM (#7880489)

First reference design of this device didn't had 3G, it had 2G and WIFI. This is a $25 dollars phone, there is a limit on the chips you can afford with that amount of F.O.B.

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