Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.

It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.

  • suoko
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    -11 year ago

    Fxos was just android + a custom launcher, it was not a huge investment since it was just a launcher in the end. They focused on low prices, a camera to create video reports and a usable mobile browser.

    • @Bal@lemm.ee
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      41 year ago

      This is incorrect, it was also Linux-based but completely unrelated to Android.

      • suoko
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        01 year ago

        It was android 5 (or maybe 6 with its 2.6 versione) and the launcher was gaia