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We tend to abbreviate Firefox OS "FxOS".
The marketing guy in me wants to suggest FFOS since it immediately evokes "fast forward" in my mind. (though to be honest, gamers will come back with the expected, "WHAT!? Final Fantasy OS???" :P
Darn, Keon is sold out. I wanted a small smartphone. OS aside, I'm hoping Firefox OS (is there an official abbreviation we can use) will rejuvenate the small screen smartphone market.
Weird.. I just checked and Keons are still available (i saw the out of stock just now too..).. Try again?
It's sad you can only pay with credit cards. I refuse to get a credit card.
Hmm, since the website is pretty much hosed, I can't see what it says, but... Even if it ships worldwide, as somebody mentioned, how can one tell whether it actually works with ? There's no doubt a lot of coarse-grained commonality between different carriers in different countries, but there also seem to be many differences when you get down to the details, and a lot of incentive to add gratuitous minor incompatibili…
I'm not familiar with the situation in Europe/USA, but I've never had trouble using a GSM phone with any GSM SIM card from any carrier in Asia. I'm not sure about the situation for CDMA or LTE.
How open is the hardware? Are the drivers open source?
Well, now BOTH models are out-of-stock!