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This sounds like a good change. Hopefully it would bring in a really good experience, not just a clone of the Android One series that compromises on hardware be

This sounds like a good change. Hopefully it would bring in a really good experience, not just a clone of the Android One series that compromises on hardware because of price. Quoting from the email, "This will be the phone that you want to use, and will use every day." For this to be true, these are some of the key things for Mozilla to focus on: * The responsiveness of the UI. * A good camera (at least 5MP). * A decent amount of memory to hold multiple apps (in dormant mode) and reduce startup times of recently used apps. Running Android apps may be a good interim strategy while apps targeted and optimized for Firefox phones are developed. But this assumes that the phones can run them well. Otherwise it would just backfire completely, leaving Firefox phones as useless devices. I can't wait for a well performing Firefox phone that's widely available (even if that means costing a few hundred dollars or equivalent)! It'd be great if Firefox can come to fourth place or (gasp) third place in the mobile OS wars.

pavlov 11y ago
Third place is going to take a lot of work. Microsoft sold 8.6 million Lumia phones last quarter. The only way I see it happening would be if Mozilla gets some big partner in e.g. China to push Firefox phones.
- higherpurpose 11y ago
  And Microsoft is only able to sell as many thanks to Nokia's brand recognition prior to buying them (Nokia was selling 95% of all of the Windows Phones before Microsoft acquired the phone division - which just shows what a huge impact Nokia's brand name had on Windows Phone, and without it WP would be at <0.5% market share).
  - jfuhrman 11y ago
    The phones sold last quarter were not branded Nokia.
    - sirkneeland 11y ago
      New Lumia models introduced were branded Microsoft. Previous Lumia models launched as Nokias (830 etc) remain Nokia branded.
nightcracker 11y ago
Don't forget battery!
- derf_ 11y ago
  The battery on Firefox OS phones is already phenomenal (e.g., a week or more between recharges). Of course, the trick is not screwing that up when you add the other things.
  - milankragujevic 11y ago
    My experience with Geeksphone Keon is much different. The battery would barely last 5 hours.

pavlov 11y ago

Third place is going to take a lot of work. Microsoft sold 8.6 million Lumia phones last quarter. The only way I see it happening would be if Mozilla gets some big partner in e.g. China to push Firefox phones.

higherpurpose 11y ago
And Microsoft is only able to sell as many thanks to Nokia's brand recognition prior to buying them (Nokia was selling 95% of all of the Windows Phones before Microsoft acquired the phone division - which just shows what a huge impact Nokia's brand name had on Windows Phone, and without it WP would be at <0.5% market share).
- jfuhrman 11y ago
  The phones sold last quarter were not branded Nokia.
  - sirkneeland 11y ago
    New Lumia models introduced were branded Microsoft. Previous Lumia models launched as Nokias (830 etc) remain Nokia branded.

nightcracker 11y ago

Don't forget battery!

derf_ 11y ago
The battery on Firefox OS phones is already phenomenal (e.g., a week or more between recharges). Of course, the trick is not screwing that up when you add the other things.
- milankragujevic 11y ago
  My experience with Geeksphone Keon is much different. The battery would barely last 5 hours.