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Re: ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay

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Post by tephra »

dendory wrote: post #22
johnchristopher wrote: post #18

From Belgium: Unfortunately, access to this particular item has been blocked due to legal restrictions in some countries. We are blocking your viewing in an effort to prevent restricted items from being displayed. Regrettably, in some cases, we may prevent users from accessing items that are not within the scope of said restrictions because of limitations of existing technology. Please accept our apologies for any in…

I can see it from Canada, but I can't buy it, they only ship to the US.

Swede here, can't seem to buy it from ebay.us.uk either seems some countries are blocked from getting it. :(

Re: ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay

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Post by tephra »

unicornporn wrote: post #33
kurt_ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For EU: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ZTE-Open-3G-Unlocked-Firefox-OS-Ce...

But it is not at all for all EU countries. I'm in Sweden and it's on the darn "Excludes" list. Very weird.

Yes same here, just emailed and tweeted to them to see why

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Post by felideon »

5vforest wrote: post #44

Finished Paypal checkout: "You sent a payment of 79.99 USD to Livinglife9012@yahoo.com" wtf?

Haha, yeah. I noticed that while rushing to buy it a few minutes before having to leave the house to drop off my son at school. It hit me on my way to work, "Wait, who exactly did I just send $80 to?"

Then I checked the email confirmation and noticed the seller was zte_us. Whew.

Re: ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay

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Post by ItsJason »

_enai wrote: post #35
reidrac wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not an expert, but £59.99 is a very competitive price for an unlocked smartphone.

For around $110 you can get a decent android phone from China, for example www.buyincoins.com/item/31125.html

Does anyone have experience with phones like these?

Re: ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay

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Post by brianbreslin »

aroch wrote: post #8
brianbreslin wrote: post #5

What carriers does it support in the US?

You couldn't scrolled down a few inches to see: Support US 3G NETWORK 2G NETWORK:GSM 850/900/1800/1900 3G NETWORK:UMTS 850/1900 Which is any GSM carrier and, depending on your area, 3G from ATT and Tmo or just ATT + all the MVNO's, US Cellular and other smaller regionals that lease from ATT

I did see that, however I wasn't sure which band ATT and TMO use since in europe they don't use the same 3 we do in the US. Many of the MVNOs buy their minutes from sprint or verizon.

Re: ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay

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Post by JoeAcchino »

untog wrote: post #48
felideon wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, are you running the latest FxOS build, etc.? I know Engadget has an article somewhere saying the lagginess improved a bit. I ordered one in order to replace my feature phone. Although the phone doesn't crash nor would I call the UI feedback on pressing a button "laggy", it certainly isn't fast.

As best I know I am, yes- I see relatively frequent "System Update" notifications and apply them whenever I get them.

So you don't need to build a new Firefox OS release on your PC and flash it, the phone will just update itself?

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Post by pjmlp »

untog wrote: post #36
rdtsc wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A smartphone to be useful has to have applications and a market to get more applications. A smart-phone that doesn't is no better than a an older locked down brick or flip phone with pre-loaded vendor supplied 'apps'

No. A smartphone has a fully competent web browser, which instantly places it far, far higher than a brick or flip phone.

Assuming a proper network connection and data plan are available.

Re: ZTE Open Firefox OS phone is available on eBay

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Post by AlexanderDhoore »

bjm1 wrote: post #55

Although I would say that the release of this first phone is very awesome, it does need to at least support 4G before it will be purchased and used by most people.

I was going to tell you that "the countries this phone is targeted at don't even have 4G". But what do you know: Russia, India, Brazil, all have 4G networks [1]. That's really impressive...

[1] http://www.worldtimezone.com/4g.html

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