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Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone

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Re: Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone

#23

Unfortunately, if I understand correctly these phones will not work with TMobile 3G in the US which only operates in the 1700-Mhz band. http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/phone-sim-card

You're half-right. T-Mobile's actually been adding service in the 1900MHz band, but it's limited at the moment. http://www.phonedog.com/2013/03/15/t-mobile-says-1900mhz-hsp...

Thanks, I wish the carriers in the US were more forthcoming with technical details.

For anyone else who initially overlooked here is the PC Mag article with the list of relevant cities:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2416666,00.asp

Unfortunately, I'm in none of them.

Re: Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone

#24

Sigh. My order came to $155, and the site's trying to charge me 155 EUR. That's not really good, given that 155 EUR is about $200. EDIT: It will charge the correct price if you switch the prices on the site to EUR. Second problem: one of my cards gave an unspecified error, the other was was denied by the bank for whatever reason. :/

Getting the same. One fails with denied by bank, and the other fails with "wrong authentication". Their credit card processing website seems to kinda suck..

Re: Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone

#30

Sigh. My order came to $155, and the site's trying to charge me 155 EUR. That's not really good, given that 155 EUR is about $200. EDIT: It will charge the correct price if you switch the prices on the site to EUR. Second problem: one of my cards gave an unspecified error, the other was was denied by the bank for whatever reason. :/

I'm having the same issue. I switched to COD. I am hopeful they will fix the issue beforehand.

Either way, paying an extra 30 dollars to have a Firefox phone is worth it to me. I'm sick of my iPhone.

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