Hi, Richard, The ZTE Open devices from eBay are used to be distributed to countries that ZTE Open devices are not available. Then, more users can get the devices and experience Firefox OS. ZTE Open was released earlier than ZTE Open from eBay. Therefore, ZTE Open from eBay has more Firefox OS fixes than what ZTE Open has.
Mozilla doesn't manufacture devices and therefore, we don't have the technical ability to support devices that we don't manufacture, and also we have no legal right to distribute the vendor-specific codes that come on these devices. The respective OEMs support these devices. Mozilla keeps improving Firefox OS and partners can choose what Firefox OS builds they would like to integrate with vendor-specific codes and deliver them to end users. Thanks. Kevin Hu On Jan 4, 2014, at 4:29 PM, richard.qu...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, January 3, 2014 7:57:43 PM UTC+1, Julien Wajsberg wrote: >> >> >> We're not focussing on 'top' terminals at all. As I said, ZTE Open is >> >> one of our "tier 1" terminals, that is the terminals we're specifically >> >> testing our code on. > > I think the confusion is that there are apparently 2 versions of the ZTE Open > - the one you can buy on Ebay and the one that Telefonica/Movistar sells in > Spain. > > They are both called ZTE Open, but have different binary blobs on them so are > not compatible. > > The ZTE Ebay Open is the "tier 1" model you test on. This seems to be > updatable from personal builds and is fully supported by Mozilla. > > The ZTE Movistar Open is in a state of limbo. Personal builds at least break > wifi due to the MAC bug/problem described in one of the linked bugzillas > above. That was the blocker for nightlies at least. The device might not even > be flashable, presumably for "security" or some other restriction made by > Telefonica (speculation). > > It's confusing. Also disappointing, as the ZTE Movistar Open is cheaper than > the Ebay one (50€ locally, no need for shipping, with some amount of prepaid > stuff included), but being so locked down means it is no good. As a user, it > is a bad choice as it probably won't be updated past 1.1. I know, you try > your best, but it is in the hands of ZTE, and handset manufacturers tend to > have a policy of "1 update and that's your lot" - that update was to 1.1. As > a developer it is risky since the chance of flashing not working is high, or > if it works then it might have bugs that will be WONTFIXED as it is not > really an officially supported tier 1 device. > > Is this the state of things or have I got something horribly wrong? > > Regards, > Richard > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list dev-b2g@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
