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Personnally, I would also love to have a second phone like this one. Cheap, simple, just to "phone&browse". No apps. I live in France
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This is probably the price with contract (i.e., it's subsidized by the carrier and the true cost is higher)
Nope. It's actually $33, also in developing countries nobody pays more than $0.01 for a phone on contract.
Personnally, I would also love to have a second phone like this one. Cheap, simple, just to "phone&browse". No apps. I live in France
In theory it was nice to just have a basic, but in practice I had to tether it to my computer or Nexus 7 for anything more than a quick text or Facebook message. The OS isn't there yet (though 2.0 is getting there) and the touchscreen is a thing that constantly needed to be fought against.
What I found I was really longing for was a small dumbphone that had LTE so I could tether when I needed to get work done/browse the web
At this point, I think Mozilla really needs to: 1) launch a high end phone, capable of competing in specs with the Nexus 5 and the like; 2) release the first Firefox-OS tablet, which would be a prove very valuable to kiosks.
What is the advantage of releasing a high-end phone? They've made a sensible strategic choice to target a low-end market -- probably the place where firefox-os has the best chance of competing with Android. Trying to have a high-end flagship would dilute their branding and divert their dev efforts.
Developers use high end phones.
http://www.materiel.net/smartphone/?f[11037]=Firefox+OS
http://www.cdiscount.com/telephonie/telephone-mobile/zte-ope...
http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Telephonie/Smartphone/Smartphone...
http://www.webdistrib.com/cat/Smartphone-ZTE-Open-C-Night-Bl...
http://www.ldlc.com/telephonie-gps/telephonie-portable/mobil...
At this point, I think Mozilla really needs to: 1) launch a high end phone, capable of competing in specs with the Nexus 5 and the like; 2) release the first Firefox-OS tablet, which would be a prove very valuable to kiosks.
I'd like to see more pushing the envelope of what HTML applications on mobile devices are capable of. Currently devices use the Facebook, Mobile and YouTube mobile sites. These don't make great use of HTML APIs. There is little in the way of offline support for example.
I'd like to see developers, or Mozilla, provide versions of these applications that are equivalent to native. I don't think there is much missing in the web platform to make this difficult.
[1] http://benjaminkerensa.com/2014/05/02/unboxing-first-firefox...
At the start, there were more nokia n95s, blackberry's and other pre-iphone smartphones in the market. There were even more being sold as iphones were supply limited. But, none of these mattered because if you looked at it from a website's perspective, there were no visits. Sales don't matter.
There's something similar with ChromeOS. People like buying them and maybe owning them. They're cheap and novel and the idea is appealing. But, how many visits to your site come from a chromebook? Usually it's below the attention threshold.
I wonder if Firefox OS will be similar. IE, people could buy a $25 phone on a lark, to house a rarely used SIM or similar but not use it as their primary phone.
This isn't a problem exactly, but it might make it hard to gauge how important the platform is at any given time.
At this point, I think Mozilla really needs to: 1) launch a high end phone, capable of competing in specs with the Nexus 5 and the like; 2) release the first Firefox-OS tablet, which would be a prove very valuable to kiosks.
Measuring whether or not a device is gaining market share is tricky. I remember iphone launching and weeks later, every website with substantial traffic had a noticeable number of visits from an iphone. Same with ipad. At the start, there were more nokia n95s, blackberry's and other pre-iphone smartphones in the market. There were even more being sold as iphones were supply limited. But, none of these mattered becaus…