i saw the "Flame" reference phone. But it's a TCL manufactured phone again - so i am not sure if it will be fully user-upgradeable? did Mozilla make sure with TCL that we wont run into the same problems like with the Alcatel Fire & ZTE Open? 170USD is a bit steep for me for a device that i basically don't use on a daily basis, also i just spent (too much) money on the ZTE - FFOS is right now a bit too young and too green for prime time in my opinion. i am still missing a few apps which i use on a daily basis on my Android 4.2 phone. (that cost less than the Flame but has far better specs and a quad core cpu) not knocking Mozilla, TCL or the OS, i think its great that we have the choice. its a bit unfair right now to compare FFOS to anything mature in the market, but i am sure this will change over time. I also understand that producing a special phone for FFOS costs more than mass producing an Android phone. all that said, i actually really like the ZTE, even though i know the original Android phone can be had as cheap as 55USD. the design is nice for a low spec phone, the bright orange is a real statement... the underwhelming power and awful screen don't even turn me away, you can get used to it and its (at least for me) just a test bed to play around with.
and, it has one very cool feature that i would love to have on my Android phone: you can share the SD card via USB. does not sound too exciting, but what that means is: i can install eg a Linux live-system with persistence on the sd card and have a fully operational and safe computing environment with me at all times. just plug the phone to any computer and boot from it. no need to carry an extra usb stick. Great feature. love it. _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
