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It's not an angle. It's the explicit purpose of the phone. We designed it, every component, to be our reference phone. If you need something for some other pu
by asadotzler 12y ago
It's not an angle. It's the explicit purpose of the phone. We designed it, every component, to be our reference phone.
If you need something for some other purpose, if you've got some other angle, you could buy a Nexus 5 and put Firefox OS on there. That's a decent high end phone that I know several Firefox OS developers are using.
- cannam 12y agoThanks for the reply and yes, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to imply that there was some kind of marketing trick going on. I just think the response here (treating this device as if it were a high-end consumer device) is somewhat understandable as well. For instance there was a thread here recently, "Best Firefox phone to get?" in which the top comment suggests waiting for the Flame: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7655450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7655450 So there seems to be an unfulfilled want, even though I totally understand that fulfilling it is not what this device is supposed to be for.
- wnissen 12y agoAh, thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that the Flame was going to be more along the lines of the Nexus series. Those phones, going all the way back the Nexus One (even though it looked like a Palm Pilot glued to a trackball platform), were all intended as legitimate competitors in the the consumer space. I don't think anyone is criticizing the specs from a developer perspective, there are just a lot of people on HN who like to try out new OSes and hardware. Good luck with the phone and the OS.