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You might think that, but you've got to be careful not to let old phones update. I've got a Galaxy S2 I use mainly as a wifi hotspot with a data-only sim, and
by regularfry 12y ago
You might think that, but you've got to be careful not to let old phones update. I've got a Galaxy S2 I use mainly as a wifi hotspot with a data-only sim, and while it used to have a pretty snappy UI, these days it really crawls, almost to the point of being unusable.
To be honest I've not looked particularly hard at why this is, but how well a phone runs a browser, for instance, isn't frozen in time when the phone is bought.
- gambiting 12y agoYou are absolutely right, but a phone that is few years old and has 512MB of ram is going to load pages faster than this new $35 firefox OS phone which only has 128MB.
- regularfry 12y agoCould go either way, I reckon. I've got no idea what the relative CPU speeds are, for a start. At some point the newer phone will start to make sense.
- mozmark 12y agoNot letting your phone update maybe isn't a great solution if you care about security at all. Users shouldn't have to choose between 'affordable' and 'currently supported'; I hope Firefox OS can help here.
- regularfry 12y agoYou're absolutely right - it's a real pain.