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What the fuck? the price of the article is '$25', and all the links they give show a 80€ => $100 tag price... http://www.materiel.net/smartphone/?f[11037]=Fire

by rjaco31 12y ago

What the fuck? the price of the article is '$25', and all the links they give show a 80€ => $100 tag price... http://www.materiel.net/smartphone/?f[11037]=Firefox+OS http://www.materiel.net/smartphone/?f[11037]=Firefox+OS http://www.cdiscount.com/telephonie/telephone-mobile/zte-open-c-bleu/f-144040207-zteopencbl.html http://www.cdiscount.com/telephonie/telephone-mobile/zte-ope... http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Telephonie/Smartphone/Smartphone-classique/ZTE/4926226-Open-C-bleu.htm http://www.rueducommerce.fr/Telephonie/Smartphone/Smartphone... http://www.webdistrib.com/cat/Smartphone-ZTE-Open-C-Night-Blue-Firefox-OS-__p_925735.html http://www.webdistrib.com/cat/Smartphone-ZTE-Open-C-Night-Bl... http://www.ldlc.com/telephonie-gps/telephonie-portable/mobile-smartphone/c4416/+fv403-11718.html http://www.ldlc.com/telephonie-gps/telephonie-portable/mobil...

SimeVidas 12y ago
The cheapest devices ($25 are $35) are sold exclusively in India and similar low-income countries, AFAIK. In the western world, you can only get Alcatel, ZTE, etc.
- icebraining 12y ago
  They're being sold on eBay as well (by resellers), but never bellow $65. I wonder who's buying them.
  - listic 12y ago
    People in other countries who want to check out these phones.
muyuu 12y ago
Is is the same as the ZTE Open C Firefox Phone? because I tried it and it's pitiful. IIRC it's £60 in the UK. Don't bother with that phone, it's useless.
- srcmap 12y ago
  Form the point of view of the folks who never use a smart phone before, this $35 phone is probably very good. Just as win3.1 might be very good for someone who only use DOS before.
  - muyuu 12y ago
    I disagree on both accounts actually. I hated Win3.1 with a passion, everything ran like crap as it tried to do too much on computers that weren't ready for it, 99% of the time (only by the time of 3.11 for WorkGroups it started being decent). I was definitely happier working on DOS (DRDOS 6, MSDOS 5, DOS/V) at the time using protected mode. This is a bit of the same thing. A smartphone so poor, it will make you love your dumbphone and your computer a lot more. Tries too much on hardware that just cannot deal with it. Shame, because some of the ideas are really necessary right now. Like OS-level control of app privileges as standard, network control, privacy controls... absolutely essential. I'd very likely get a high end Firefox phone despite of how terrible the current phone is, if it performs passably. There was talk about that (and tablets) earlier in the year but I haven't seen anything.
- Yoric 12y ago
  Seriously? It's my main phone. It has drawbacks, clearly, but it's quite sufficient for my needs.
  - muyuu 12y ago
    Seriously? back at you. It's absolutely terrible, fails as a phone and I would rather have no smartphone than using that.
nmridul 12y ago
http://www.snapdeal.com/product/intex-cloud-fx/1356760619 http://www.snapdeal.com/product/intex-cloud-fx/1356760619 and http://www.flipkart.com/alcatel-onetouch-firec-4020d/p/itmdys6qffvs6tfd http://www.flipkart.com/alcatel-onetouch-firec-4020d/p/itmdy... Its Rs 1999 (Roughly $32)

by rjaco31 12y ago

SimeVidas 12y ago

The cheapest devices ($25 are $35) are sold exclusively in India and similar low-income countries, AFAIK. In the western world, you can only get Alcatel, ZTE, etc.

icebraining 12y ago
They're being sold on eBay as well (by resellers), but never bellow $65. I wonder who's buying them.
- listic 12y ago
  People in other countries who want to check out these phones.

muyuu 12y ago

Is is the same as the ZTE Open C Firefox Phone? because I tried it and it's pitiful. IIRC it's £60 in the UK. Don't bother with that phone, it's useless.

srcmap 12y ago
Form the point of view of the folks who never use a smart phone before, this $35 phone is probably very good. Just as win3.1 might be very good for someone who only use DOS before.
- muyuu 12y ago
  I disagree on both accounts actually. I hated Win3.1 with a passion, everything ran like crap as it tried to do too much on computers that weren't ready for it, 99% of the time (only by the time of 3.11 for WorkGroups it started being decent). I was definitely happier working on DOS (DRDOS 6, MSDOS 5, DOS/V) at the time using protected mode. This is a bit of the same thing. A smartphone so poor, it will make you love your dumbphone and your computer a lot more. Tries too much on hardware that just cannot deal with it. Shame, because some of the ideas are really necessary right now. Like OS-level control of app privileges as standard, network control, privacy controls... absolutely essential. I'd very likely get a high end Firefox phone despite of how terrible the current phone is, if it performs passably. There was talk about that (and tablets) earlier in the year but I haven't seen anything.
Yoric 12y ago
Seriously? It's my main phone. It has drawbacks, clearly, but it's quite sufficient for my needs.
- muyuu 12y ago
  Seriously? back at you. It's absolutely terrible, fails as a phone and I would rather have no smartphone than using that.

nmridul 12y ago

http://www.snapdeal.com/product/intex-cloud-fx/1356760619 http://www.snapdeal.com/product/intex-cloud-fx/1356760619 and http://www.flipkart.com/alcatel-onetouch-firec-4020d/p/itmdys6qffvs6tfd http://www.flipkart.com/alcatel-onetouch-firec-4020d/p/itmdy... Its Rs 1999 (Roughly $32)