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Gecko will have an awesome performance. I went to Telefónica offices in Madrid a few weeks ago. They showed us a prototype (ZTE phone) running one of the lastes

Gecko will have an awesome performance. I went to Telefónica offices in Madrid a few weeks ago. They showed us a prototype (ZTE phone) running one of the lastest builds of Firefox OS (not the nightly, though). We touched it and it had pretty good perfomance. It was somewhat snappy on scrolling items, but overall a similar performance that you get on a medium-cost Android phone. Then we asked about that device. It was a crappy ZTE with 600 MHz CPU and with the poorest Qualcomm chipset. This blew out my mind: a non-optimised system was running with acceptable performance on the lowest of smartphones. I can't imagine how will this perform when it's fully optimised on a high-end smartphone. They're doing a great work.

andrewcooke 14y ago
any idea when/if it will be available to buy? or what markets they are aiming at (latin america?)?
- robhawkes 14y ago
  Brazil at first, next year. We're working on developer devices that can be used worldwide.
  - ravichhabra 14y ago
    Any developer version that we could buy? I don't mind if we have to pay more. Need to test this for Burma market. Edit: Didn't read carefully. You already mentioned that developer versions would be available worldwide soon. Any mailing list to subscribe for the announcement?
    - grayrest 14y ago
      > Any developer version that we could buy? Like all Mozilla projects, this is developed completely in the open. You can get an original Galaxy Nexus and flash it over to the latest nightly relatively easily. It probably works on other phones, but the nexus is what they gave out at JSConf so that's what I use. ;) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Building_and_installing_Boot_to_Gecko https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gec...
      - callahad 14y ago
        Correction: Nexus S, not Galaxy Nexus :)
      - jmathai 14y ago
        > Like all Mozilla projects, this is developed completely in the open. Surprised that even the tech community doesn't understand the significance of this.

andrewcooke 14y ago

any idea when/if it will be available to buy? or what markets they are aiming at (latin america?)?

robhawkes 14y ago
Brazil at first, next year. We're working on developer devices that can be used worldwide.
- ravichhabra 14y ago
  Any developer version that we could buy? I don't mind if we have to pay more. Need to test this for Burma market. Edit: Didn't read carefully. You already mentioned that developer versions would be available worldwide soon. Any mailing list to subscribe for the announcement?
  - grayrest 14y ago
    > Any developer version that we could buy? Like all Mozilla projects, this is developed completely in the open. You can get an original Galaxy Nexus and flash it over to the latest nightly relatively easily. It probably works on other phones, but the nexus is what they gave out at JSConf so that's what I use. ;) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko/Building_and_installing_Boot_to_Gecko https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gec...
    - callahad 14y ago
      Correction: Nexus S, not Galaxy Nexus :)
    - jmathai 14y ago
      > Like all Mozilla projects, this is developed completely in the open. Surprised that even the tech community doesn't understand the significance of this.