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The G1 was released as a high-end flagship smartphone to compete with the iPhone. The ZTE FxOS phones are low-end smartphones competing in the feature phone mar
by aroch 13y ago
The G1 was released as a high-end flagship smartphone to compete with the iPhone. The ZTE FxOS phones are low-end smartphones competing in the feature phone market.
- comex 13y agoYet, as it is five years later, the latter has considerably better hardware.
- adamnemecek 13y agoBut upon the initial release in 08, Android had already been in development for some 5 years.
- comex 13y agoMaybe, but among other things, it was also running Java code on a pure interpreter :) I don't have any personal experience of either the ZTE Open or G1's performance, but an ancient Android phone shouldn't be a hard target to beat.
- kevingadd 13y agoMissing the key detail that huge parts of the Android stack, even then, were not interpreted Java. (Skia, for example)