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Is there any way to get your hands a dev phone without being a mobile app developer rockstar (I assume they give them away to these guys/girls)? Alternatively i

by skizm 14y ago

Is there any way to get your hands a dev phone without being a mobile app developer rockstar (I assume they give them away to these guys/girls)? Alternatively is there a method to get your hands on the OS and load it on an android phone to play around with? The simulator is great and all but I love seeing the finished product on an actual phone.

dagurp 14y ago
http://www.geeksphone.com/ http://www.geeksphone.com/ Went on sale about a week ago. I think they're sold out though
- LukeShu 14y ago
  They put a few more up every day. Each day they go through the cycle: - shop is down, has a white page saying that the shop will be up again "in the following hours" - the shop goes live - the shop sells out - the shop is up, but says "Out of stock" on product pages
johansch 14y ago
I think they are afraid of showing real-world performance to soon...
- fabrice_d 14y ago
  Everything was developed in the open from day 1. We are not hiding anything there. If you get a Keon from Geeksphone, you'll get a good idea of how it performs on low-end hardware similar to the one that will be sold by the first carriers. And it's pretty good I think. (disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla employee working on b2g)
cji 14y ago
If you can't snag a developer phone, there is support for building it for a limited number of android handsets. Compatible devices: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Have_a_compatible_device_or_use_an_emulator https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/... Installation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Installing_on_a_mobile_device https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
doublec 14y ago
It runs ok on a Nexus S http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/04/22/running-firefox-os-on-nexus-s.html http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/04/22/running-firefox-os-on-ne...

by skizm 14y ago

dagurp 14y ago

http://www.geeksphone.com/ http://www.geeksphone.com/ Went on sale about a week ago. I think they're sold out though

LukeShu 14y ago
They put a few more up every day. Each day they go through the cycle: - shop is down, has a white page saying that the shop will be up again "in the following hours" - the shop goes live - the shop sells out - the shop is up, but says "Out of stock" on product pages

johansch 14y ago

I think they are afraid of showing real-world performance to soon...

fabrice_d 14y ago
Everything was developed in the open from day 1. We are not hiding anything there. If you get a Keon from Geeksphone, you'll get a good idea of how it performs on low-end hardware similar to the one that will be sold by the first carriers. And it's pretty good I think. (disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla employee working on b2g)

cji 14y ago

If you can't snag a developer phone, there is support for building it for a limited number of android handsets. Compatible devices: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Firefox_OS_build_prerequisites#Have_a_compatible_device_or_use_an_emulator https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/... Installation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Installing_on_a_mobile_device https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...

doublec 14y ago

It runs ok on a Nexus S http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/04/22/running-firefox-os-on-nexus-s.html http://bluishcoder.co.nz/2013/04/22/running-firefox-os-on-ne...