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but for 170 usd you can get android and windows phones with both better spec's and a more complete OS.

• dblohm7 12y ago
  What good is a reference phone for development of Firefox OS itself and app development on that OS if you're running Android or Windows Phone? I think you've missed the point of the device!
  • piokuc 12y ago
    I think the idea was to make it possible to install Firefox OS on a popular and affordable Android handset. Both Firefox OS and apps for Fx OS could be developed on it.
    • dblohm7 12y ago
      "...and a more complete OS." That doesn't suggest to me that this person is intending to develop Fx OS on it.
• valarauca1 12y ago
  This phone isn't invented to be your daily driver. Its built as a development platform. You wouldn't buy a AMD Opteron A1100 Development board (AMD's ARM based CPU) and bemoan the fact that for ~$200 you can buy a vastly computational superior computer. Your buying it as a development system.
  • Yunk 12y ago
    But you can also synchronize on a reference system from your competitor's systems and then you can do easy comparisons. (For example, Solaris x86 clearly favored 1-2 specific windows/mac laptops --which could be ordered on a fast track internally-- and supported the bundled devices on those laptops if the device's type was supported at all. Swapping the external reference every few years was annoying but cheap and limited the arguments to selecting among actual configurations rather than future possibilities.) I would hope there is another reason is like getting a reliable ABI and clear licensing for the DSP side software? Otherwise, offering a better OS on a few models of android phones will be more useful now, and then again as used Android phones enter the emerging markets.